Holliday’s debut album, Space Cadet, surfaced in 2019, and he’s remained qu… Read Full Bio ↴Holliday’s debut album, Space Cadet, surfaced in 2019, and he’s remained quite productive on the creative front ever since, as evidenced by a recent string of singles such as “Expensive Taste,” “Put It Down,” and “Out of Me.” All the while, he’s continuously ventured into the terrains of R&B, funk, and pop, ultimately combining sounds from all of them into his final output.

“The way I see it, as an artist if you’re not experimenting, you will always be stuck in the same place,” he says. “My goal is to make something entirely new that people haven’t heard before.”

Holliday was one of many musicians who used his lockdown time in 2020 to crank out new material from home, resulting in much of the aforementioned music. This period was also defined by a long-distance relationship, and that has provided the narrative thrust for “Out of Me,” his very latest release. “It was one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences I’ve ever had,” he explains, but he ultimately emerged from it with new insight as to “how to set boundaries, what I was okay with and how to take another person’s well-being into account.”

All of these sentiments are ones that he elaborates upon in “Out of Me,” and he benefitted from the liberties of post-quarantine life to film the track’s music video, which serves as a love letter both to his partner and to his native Brooklyn. Several famous parks and landmarks are shown throughout the clip, as are some more personal parts of the borough on Holliday’s behalf, including the brownstone building where his family resides and even the local laundromat that keeps his clothes clean!

"Growing up in Brooklyn, I felt like I was always around music in some way. Going to outdoor concerts and block parties in the summer, I was constantly hearing things I probably wouldn’t have been exposed to otherwise. Every summer since I was a little kid, I remember going to Afropunk. I was always amazed seeing all these black artists that weren’t afraid to go outside the norm. I think that made me feel like I could do anything stylistically when I started making my own music."