{"id":536372,"date":"2026-03-12T21:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536372\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:40:10","slug":"cavalier-quelle-chris-navy-blue-share-holding-on-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536372\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavalier &#038; Quelle Chris, &#038; Navy Blue Share &#8220;Holding On&#8221;: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, the endlessly inventive underground rapper\/producer Quelle Chris released <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2490855\/quelle-chris-drops-surprise-new-ep-happy-place\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Happy Place<\/a>, a sample-heavy EP that he posted only on YouTube, asking for donations in return. it was Quelle Chris&#8217; first release since 2024&#8217;s Death Tape 2: We Gon&#8217; Need Each Other, the second entry in his series of collaborations with the New Orleans rapper Cavalier. Now, Cavalier and Quelle Chris have a new song together, and it also features their peers Navy Blue and Denmark Vessey.<\/p>\n<p>On the new song &#8220;Holding On,&#8221; all four rappers get extremely vulnerable over a warped, hazy track. It&#8217;s the rare posse cut about trying to keep your shit together. On Instagram Cavalier says that the song is &#8220;about the quiet work of staying present \u2014 through grief, fatherhood, memory, and the weight of becoming someone new while carrying everything you\u2019ve been.&#8221; Check out the Joseph Mault-directed video below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month, the endlessly inventive underground rapper\/producer Quelle Chris released Happy Place, a sample-heavy EP that he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-536372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}