Summer Walker says that she feels like she “got played” by The Recording Academy after her albums Over It and Still Over It were both snubbed at the Grammys. Walker discussed her lack of recognition at the awards show during an appearance on Caresha Please, last week.
“Honestly, both albums, Over It and Still Over It, really did the numbers. I don’t know. I feel like I got played,” she told host Yung Miami. “The numbers was there. The fans was there. When I pop out for a show, sold out every time.”
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – APRIL 02: Summer Walker attends The Black Music Collective GRAMMY week celebration on April 02, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage)
Walker further vented: “I don’t f*cking know why they played me. I do know why, but I ain’t gonna go into it. But it’s ok. The love is there, and the money is there. So it’s good.” Walker dropped Still Over It back in November 2021. The album debuted atop the US Billboard 200 and was the highest charting album from a female R&B artist since Beyonce’s Lemonade (2016).
Elsewhere in the interview, Walker discussed the father of her baby, London on da Track. She reflected on her song, “4th Baby Mama,” which frankly targets her ex. “I have no regrets,” Summer said of her decision to release the song. “There’s nothing worse to me than, like, men who have enabling mothers. Like, narcissists that have enabling mothers. Like, you could call a n***a mama and be like, ‘He just did this, he just did that.’ And they’ll be like, ‘What you do that make him do that?’”
Summer Walker Speaks With Yung Miami
Yung Miami has had many stars appear on her critically acclaimed talk show, including Megan Thee Stallion, Saweetie, Latto, and more. For her efforts, she split the BET Hip-Hop Award for Best Hip-Hop Platform in 2022 with N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN for their podcast, Drink Champs.
Albums, mixtapes, and EPs attributable to Summer Walker are beyond outstanding. Indeed, the Atlanta-born singer applies zeal and consistency to everything she does. It hasn’t stopped there: she has channeled the same in her post-fame navigation. Despite being pregnant, she toured with a higher passion.
She performed at London’s Wireless Festival, Essence Fest, and the Roots Picnic, across months. These were part and parcel of the Summer Walker Series: Part II Tour, which ended last year in Detroit. She qualifies as someone who makes the most of her pain and turns it around. That’s the most crucial characteristic of a true creative, and Walker sure doesn’t lack that! Hence, an irresistible itch to assess, in ascending order, how well her discography has done her justice.
5. Clear (EP, 2019)
This EP of hers has only four tracks with a 10-minute overall running time. Although, like Summer Series, it contains live renditions, and its tracks are exclusive. “Wasted,” “Grave,” “Settling,” and “Riot” are deeply creative pieces about relationships and self-love. The setting of the live recording was a treehouse wonderland imbued with “night chirps.” This spoke well of her taste for ambiance and foresight as to what would connect viewers to her lyrics.
Perhaps greater ambiance-tailored packages are on their way, or maybe even surprises? An announcement of the upcoming Clear 2: Soft Life has propelled the eagerness in question. As the name implies, it’s going to be a follow-up to Clear. In an interview with Billboard, she did assure us that Clear 2 was going to be longer than Clear. Well, merry ol’ fans are on their marks.
4. Life on Earth (EP, 2020)
In July 2020, Walker’s Life on Earth was released. It dwelled heavily on relationships and the toll they tend to take. Her top most-acclaimed tracks were “Let It Go,” “SWV” ft. NO1-NOAH, and “My Affection” ft. PARTYNEXTDOOR. This EP is reputed to have something compatible with every mood, with amalgams of emotions surging across tracks. While giving us emotions, it gave the artist herself her second No. 1 on the Top R&B Albums list. It also worked its way to second on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and eighth on the all-genre Billboard 200. Besides, all five tracks debuted on Hot R&B Songs. “Let It Go” came fifth, “My Affection” sixth, “SWV” eighth, “White Tee” ninth, and “Deeper” tenth. This implied that Summer Walker dominated the first-ten segment of the chart in question.
3. Last Day of Summer (Mixtape, 2018)
This is Walker’s debut mixtape and in fact, project. It came out a year after LVRN and Interscope Records signed her. Its success wasn’t mere beginner’s luck- it was largely traceable to talent and drive. This was the very genesis of her indefatigable passion for female-themed projects. Last Day of Summer hit 44 on the Billboard 200 chart, having recorded massive sales in its first week. The single “Girls Need Love” was the star song. It made well-deserved waves and dropped the mic by charting at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100. A remix would eventually follow, and it would feature the legendary Drake.
2. Over It (Album, 2019)
This is Walker’s debut studio album, most of which was produced by London on da Track, her lover at the time. It reached Rolling Stone‘s 50 Best Albums of 2019, coming 38th. Its applause extended to Complex, Uproxx, and Variety, as it emerged second on AP’s list. Likewise, the 2020 Soul Train Music Awards crowned it Best Album. Also, Apple Music announced it as its most streamed album by a female artist in 2020.
Over It did not hesitate to make and sustain a name on the US Billboard 200. It graced the chart for over 100 weeks. It, on this note, ranked as the second most successful R&B album of 2020. Topping it all was its platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in May 2020.
1. Still Over It (Album, 2021)
This is Walker’s second studio album. The album, housing 20 tracks, is a structured story spanning from August 2019 to October 2021. It’s like a Lemonade of her past relationship with London on da Track. Still Over It was a hands-down successful album, securing emphatic spots on prestigious year-end lists. Twice as significantly, it carved a landmark in the good books of music gurus. It became the highest charting album from a female R&B artist since the release of its fillip-parent: Lemonade. It hit a whopping First Position on the US Billboard 200. More so, the commercial success of this album grew into a record-breaking phenomenon. It raised the bar for most album streams on Apple Music in a single day (by a female artist).
After fans waited a little over two years for a new project from Summer Walker, the LVRN singer finally returned with her sophomore project Still Over It. She delivered the project last fall and it arrived with features from Cardi B, JT, SZA, Omarion, Lil Durk, Ciara, and Ari Lennox. Still Over It went on to become Summer’s first No. 1 album, which also stood as the first chart-topping project by a female R&B act in over five years. Now that Summer is a few months removed from the project’s release, she’s back with a new release.
One of the standout records from Still Over It is “No Love” with SZA, and now the track gets a nice update thanks to the addition of Cardi B. On it, Cardi adds a verse to the song to make for a sweet and tender extended version. The updated track also comes with a soft music video that begins with Cardi and Summer laying in an elegant bed in the clouds as Cardi sings about the unfaithful ways of her love interest. After Summer delivers the song’s hook in a rose field, she joins SZA as they twerk and pole dance beside each other. Altogether, it makes for quite the spicy and sensual visual.
You can watch the video for the updated version of “No Love” above.
Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Summer Walker has a number of accolades and record-breaking moments to her name in her short career. The singer already has a top-five chart entry on the Billboard 200 thanks to her 2019 debut album, Over It. That project also broke the record for the most-streamed album ever by a female R&B artist, surpassing a mark previously held by Beyonce’s Lemonade. This success continued through Summer’s sophomore album, Still Over It, which she released earlier this month. The project became Apple Music’s biggest album debut ever and the platform’s biggest R&B album debut ever in addition to going No. 1 in 40 markets globally. More than a week after its release, Still Over It continues to break records for Summer.
Still Over It went No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart dated November 20, 2021. The album accomplished this by selling 166,000 album units in its first week. This number is comprised of 153,000 streaming equivalent album units which amounts to 201.1 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks. The project also tallied 12,000 pure album sales. With that, Summer lands the first No. 1 album by a female R&B singer in over five years, with the last being Solange’s A Seat At The Table, as well as the biggest week for a female R&B singer since Beyonce’s Lemonade.
Elsewhere, Still Over It earns the biggest first week for an R&B album released in 2021, the largest streaming week ever an R&B album released by a woman, and the fourth-biggest debut by a woman in 2021.
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The key to fully understanding the position Summer Walker finds herself in on her new album Still Over It is to remember where she left off. Every story has a prologue, and for Summer, that would be “Nobody Else,” the vulnerable confession towards love that closed her debut album Over It. “I want this, I want this to work out so bad / God, I feel it in my chest at night,” she begs on the track. “I want this, I want this, yeah, yeah / Will never fall out of love with you.” As we all know now, Summer’s wishes went unfulfilled, and while this step into love eventually tore her heart apart, it also gave the world what shaped up to be her magnum opus with Still Over It.
Cardi B says it best at the end of “Bitter.” “Put that drama in your music,” the rapper advises Summer while telling her to not “let b*tches… feel like they have a one-up by destroying your moment by telling your business to the world.” For better or for worse, the best way to regain control of a narrative for a successful musician like Summer is to make that best music of your life, and that’s what is present on Still Over It. Through the project’s 20 songs, Summer issues responses to women that interfered with her relationship, onlookers who questioned her decisions without knowing the entire story, and the very man who caused her heartbreak and destroyed the love she hoped would last a lifetime.
On Still Over It, Summer excellently reinforces that despite the whirlpool of controversy, turmoil, and toxicity that her relationship drowned in, her true desire was a love that was offertory rather than transactional. “All I wanted was for you to stay / It’s the bare minimum for me,” she bellows on “Reciprocate.” “I don’t wanna throw it all away / It’s a good thing, it’s a good thing.” It’s this standard reciprocation, which she asks of her partner and fails to receive, that drives her into a pit of sadness and regret. “You should know my mind by now / And it don’t seem to matter how many times I try,” Summer sings on “You Don’t Know Me” in disenchanted spirits. “But I cry, I say it nice / Yell it out loud, write it down, I’m tired.” It’s tracks like these where Summer uses tender production and her best songwriting to cast her pain through a projector to the world, one so big that it allows all the necessary details of her story to exist and roam free for listeners to digest.
As we progress further and further into Summer’s sophomore album, she’s forced to loosen her resistance towards letting go of a love that once made her melt. Through records like “Insane,” “Constant Bullsh*t,” and “Unloyal” with Ari Lennox, Summer almost jumps out of the moving car that is her relationship, but the unknown dangers that await her once she takes that dive delay this long-overdue exit. The man in question is London On Da Track, the father of her first child, and on “Switch A N***a Out” she uses sheer honesty to explain why she stayed beside him much longer than she should have. “’Cause I don’t want nobody, nobody else but you,” she sings, referencing her Over It closer. “And I used to be on my replacin’ sh*t / I would switch a n**** out so damn quick / If he ain’t gettin’ with my sh*t / But it just ain’t like that with you.”
Just like it would for anyone else, Summer reaches her breaking point through the last third of the album. After failed moments to fully shut the door on “Closure,” “Toxic,” and “Screwin,” Summer finally issues the grand closing for a love that she realizes was truly never meant to be. It brings forth some of the most painful and heartbreaking lyrics on the album. “Cause my heart is breakin,’” she bellows on “Broken Promises.” “I’ve been mistaken / You’re not the man I thought you were / And they tried to warn me.” Another example arrives on “Session 33.” “’Cause a house is not a home when no one’s there,” she notes. “So alone, no one’s there / Should I move on since no one’s here? / You know what you got is good, that’s why you refuse to let me walk out your life.”
Calling Still Over It Summer’s true villain story might be taking things a bit too far. Even her most ruthless moments, like dragging London and his mother on “4th Baby Mama,” seem well-deserved for a woman who was left to spend her “whole f*cking pregnancy alone.” In a perfect world, the happiness Summer exhibited to close Over It was still supposed to be alive and well on her sophomore project. A true love story and a child to raise with this forever partner should’ve been the narrative for her second album. Things were supposed to be different, but to her disappointment, that was not the case. Summer has grown as a singer, songwriter, and overall artist set on bringing her vision to life. However, until she receives the love she truly deserves, Summer Walker will still be over it.
Still Over It is out now via LVRN/Interscope. Get it here.
Summer Walker has left her supporters in tears with her newly-released sophomore album, Still Over It, which details the singer’s struggles with love. To promote the new album, she stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform “Unloyal,” an early standout. A live band provided a jazzy touch to the performance while also covering for Ari Lennox, who appears on the official song but was not present for the appearance.
Walker’s performance came as she broke several records on Apple Music with Still Over It, which earned the biggest album debut ever, the biggest R&B album debut ever, and went No. 1 in 40 markets globally. She also responded to a recent report from Rolling Stone that claimed she signed a “brutal” record deal and described her as “effectively an indentured servant for a series of albums.”
“I’ve been seeing a lot of chatter online,” she wrote on her Instagram Story. “I didn’t say anything because I wanted to stay focused on releasing my album. Yow let me clear the air. What that article said is not my current record deal. Over the years my deal has changed many times. I’ve always had my own representation and full support from LVRN. Thank you to my fans for always having my back and for all of the love ya’ll keep showing my new album. Appreciate y’all!!”
You can watch Summer perform “Unloyal” in the video above.
Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
After a two-year wait that felt much longer, Summer Walker has finally delivered her sophomore album Still Over It. Based on the title, it’s clear that the new project delivers updates on Summer’s rollercoaster love life and her fed-up feelings with it. Upon hearing the title, fans were immediately excited that it would serve as a new chapter connected to her extremely successful debut album Over It. Of the many tracks that listeners are excited to hear, “No Love,” Summer’s collaboration with SZA is one many people can’t wait to press play on.
The song sees both singers listing their regrets towards an unappreciative ex. They both admit that if they received a do-over, they’d make sure to be more protective of their hearts with this person. In addition to an appearance from SZA, Summer Walker also recruited Ari Lennox, Lil Durk, City Girls’ JT, Omarion, Pharrell Williams, Ciara, and Cardi B to offer their own contributions to her debut album. Still Over It was only preceded by one single, “Ex For A Reason” with JT, meaning that listeners have plenty of new music to enjoy of the project.
In a message to Apple Music, Summer Walker shared what she hopes listeners take away from the new album. “Take this opportunity to learn from my mistakes,” she wrote in an exclusive message to the streaming platform. “You don’t have to guess if something is love. Love is shown through actions. Stop making excuses for people who don’t show up for you. Don’t ignore the red flags. And don’t think you have to stay somewhere ’cause you can’t find better — you can and you will.” Lastly, she added, “Don’t settle for less — you don’t deserve it and neither does your family.”
You can listen to Summer and SZA’s “No Love” collaboration above.
Still Over It is out now via LVRN/Interscope. Get it here.
Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The wait for the follow-up to Summer Walker’s breakthrough 2019 debut Over It has been a roller coaster, one that’s now reaching the top of the climb before that final freefall that everyone looks forward to. First, Walker projected confirmation of the album’s November release timeline on the side of a building outside of the BET Awards, giving off heavy Yeezus guerilla marketing vibes. Then came a trailer announcing the November 5th official release date for Still Over It. That was followed by a tracklist teaser with an announcement for her next single, “Ex For A Reason,” featuring JT of City Girls, which dropped three days later.
Considering Over Itbroke Beyoncé’s record for the largest streaming week ever for an album by a female R&B artist, the build-up here is warranted. And now, today, Walker tweeted out the album cover along with the entire tracklist, and it’s stacked. Aside from “Ex For A Reason,” highlights include the album’s opening track, “Bitter,” with narration Cardi B, “No Love” featuring SZA, “Dat Right There” featuring Pharrell, plus tracks with Lil Durk, Ari Lennox, and more.
While the lyrics on “Ex For A Reason” are vindictive, the beat for the new single is upbeat and fun, so naturally, Summer Walker’s video for the Still Over It single splits the difference between these two moods. Ultimately, though, it settles on a carefree note as the Atlanta singer hangs out with her girl JT preparing for a wild house party complete with a stripper pole, a strong sisterhood vibe, and a slightly incompetent DJ who barely manages not to ruin the festivities.
Summer’s been rolling out Still Over It, the aptly titled follow-up to her 2019 debut Over It, over the past month, announcing its imminent release after skipping the BET Hip-Hop Awards, then sharing a trailer and a tracklist teasing a narrative structure for the album and its songs that reflects on the past two years and shares Summer’s triumphs and troubles with love, relationships, and learning to value herself over her bond with a man.
Walker certainly has enough material to tell a compelling, soapy story full of twists and turns. From having her first child to starting her own label — not to mention, the various drama she’s had with ex London On Da Track — Summer’s seen her share of life changes over the last two years. Fans will finally get a window into those changes on November 5.
It was just two years ago that Summer Walker arrived to take R&B by storm with her excellent debut Over It. Two years later, the only thing that’s changed for Walker is her popularity as fans have arrived with double the excitement for her next body of work. Aside from that, listeners can expect the same heartbroken and fed-up tales with love as the singer is preparing to drop her second album Still Over It in less than a month. Adding towards the anticipation for the project, Walker calls on City Girls’JT to join her on “Ex For A Reason.”
Don’t fight over a nigga that got his attention all over the place….I hope y’all learn from my mistakes “Ex For A Reason” ft. JT out now on all platforms. pic.twitter.com/peKRcW6jBX
Summer’s new track fits perfectly with the expected theme of Still Over it as it finds her and JT addressing their partner’s old lovers in their lives. Both artists are threatening to end their current relationship if their companion’s ex continues to appear in their lives. The track is supported by bouncy production for provides a steady rhythm to Walker and JT’s warnings. After releasing the song, Summer shared a message with her fans on Twitter. “Don’t fight over a n**** that got his attention all over the place,” she wrote. “.I hope y’all learn from my mistakes.”
Prior to the song’s release, Summer Walker revealed that Still Over It would be laced with 20 songs that include “Ex For A Reason.” She also revealed two additional song titles from the album, “Bitter,” the album’s opening track, and “Ciara’s Prayer,” its closing track which features an appearance from Ciara.
You can press play on the new track in the video above.
