The sprawling Burlington, Vermont, art-rap collective 99 Neighbors shares an ecstatic new single and video, “Live a Little.” The group is also announcing their major-label debut, Wherever You’re Going I Hope It’s Great out this summer on Nice Work/Warner Records.
The song, a brilliant hip-hop anthem that showcases the members’ abilities to flat-out rap their asses off, premiered this morning on Zane Lowe’s Apple Music show. Like all of 99 Neighbors’ best work, the track is an inclusive tag-team effort, with the group’s gallery of vocalists each offering their unique skills and electric deliveries.
99 Neighbors say the song was timed deliberately to the first days of the summer heat. “From the second everyone entered the studio to work on ‘Live a Little,’ the goal was to make a high-energy song for the summer and have fun making it,” they shared via statement.
“We knew from the jump that we just wanted to go crazy and truly have as much fun as possible with it, and everyone brought their A-game!”
To coincide with the release of “Live a Little,” 99 Neighbors are also sharing a sensational video for the track. The members take turns spitting while exploring back-room poker games, summer parties, and luxurious dinners—emphasizing the celebratory nature of the track and reiterating their role in Burlington’s evolving cultural scene.
Wherever You’re Going I Hope It’s Great follows the group’s 2019 project Television. That project gained the attention of Pat Corcoran (Chance’s the Rapper’s former manager), who signed them to his Nice Work label and Warner Records. For this new project, the group took their time to figure out the bold new directions they want to expand their sound. Recorded between Vermont, Chicago and Nashville, the results are thrilling and uncompromising—and “Live a Little” is just the first taste of 99 Neighbors’ new era.
