{"id":569133,"date":"2026-07-26T15:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/569133\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:52:14","slug":"limerick-rapper-strange-boy-drops-new-single-ahead-of-upcoming-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/569133\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick rapper Strange Boy drops new single ahead of upcoming album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/news\/live95-news\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All Live95 News<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a661d4fbbca5713e85.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Via Chlo\u00eb Kelly<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The track is the second single from his upcoming album &#8216;Say Nothin\u2019, arriving September 9th.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Limerick rapper Strange Boy has released his new single, \u2018Foul,\u2019 a collaboration with fellow Limerick artist Rebel Phoenix that offers an honest look at growing up in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Strange Boy has made a name for himself in Irish music by fusing hard-hitting hip-hop with traditional Irish instruments.<\/p>\n<p>He sees his craft as a modern extension of the ancient Irish seancha\u00ed, the traditional storyteller.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rap, to me, is storytelling in a modern tongue,&#8221; Strange Boy said. &#8220;The same fire, different form.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a661daac29d60bddad.jpg\" style=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Raised in Caherdavin, Strange Boy writes from the place he knows best.\u00a0On \u2018Foul,\u2019 he reflects on childhood hardship, navigating poverty, instability, and violence, and how those early environments shape a person before they even have the power to understand them.<\/p>\n<p>The track explores the loss of childhood innocence and looks at how working-class communities across Limerick and Ireland are often reduced to negative headlines, while the real human stories behind them are ignored.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/64230c00f28d8.jpg\" style=\"width: 555px; height: 378px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have no power to stop what&#8217;s happening, so you just become a product of your own time and circumstance,&#8221; Strange Boy said.<\/p>\n<p>Musically, the track brings together producer Enda Gallery&#8217;s production with performances from Dermot Sheedy (bodhr\u00e1n), Conor Crimmins (flute), Sean O&#8217;Meara (guitar) and Ted Kelly (banjo), creating a sound that sits comfortably between Irish traditional music and modern hip hop.<\/p>\n<p>The four-minute explicit single is available to stream and download now across all major music platforms ahead of the release of &#8216;Say Nothin\u2019 this autumn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=49bb71e2-4823-448e-b0e8-311158962de3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f76f434.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Live95 News Via Chlo\u00eb Kelly The track is the second single from his upcoming album &#8216;Say Nothin\u2019,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,608,611,607,610,609,612,278],"class_list":["post-569133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-radio","tag-limerick-today","tag-limericks-live95fm","tag-live-95","tag-live95fm","tag-live95fm-homepage","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}