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    "headline": "Tinie Tempah’s I Lied lyric video lands as the London rapper’s first album in nine years arrives",
    "description": "The Night's Not Dead, built from three EPs named 9PM, 12AM and 3AM, runs 17 tracks on his own Imhotep label, with a European and UK tour starting November 16.",
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    "articleBody": "Tinie Tempah posted a lyric video for “I Lied,” the newest single from his comeback album The Night’s Not Dead, on his YouTube channel at midnight UK time as the record came out on Friday, October 16. The clip runs two and a half minutes, and the song features Kah-Lo, whose verse is marked in the lyrics posted under the video. For North American listeners who know him only from “Written in the Stars,” some context helps. The South London rapper broke through in 2010 with the UK No. 1 “Pass Out” and spent roughly the next five years as one of Britain’s biggest pop stars. His last album, Youth, came out in 2017 and peaked at No. 9 in the UK. Then he stepped back, focusing on family and, more recently, television work. The Night’s Not Dead is his fourth studio album and his first full-length project in nine years. A night out in three parts The album was released on his own label, Imhotep Records, which licensed it to Believe, and it was built in public. When he announced it on August 7, he said three EPs would come first, each named for a time of night: 9PM, 12AM and 3AM. The finished record stitches those together with new songs into 17 digital tracks, with a physical edition adding the bonus track “Bounce” on November 6. The clock-face titles are the concept in miniature. From 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. is a six-hour arc, and the rollout itself ran 70 days from announcement to album, a little quicker than the 12 weeks he first promised. In his own words, the idea came from wanting to answer a divided moment with something shared. “With times being as they are and division at an all time high, I became more interested in creating an inclusive world that people can relate to and feel part of,” he said when he announced it. The guest list leans on dance and club producers rather than rap stars: Afrojack and Stargate on the bigger records, drum and bass names Skepsis and Badger, plus Punctual, Billen Ted, Wilfy D, Sudley and Hargo, and younger artists including Travy and the Irish rapper Reggie, who features on the early single “Heaven or Hell.” What the I Lied clip gets right “I Lied” is not a full music video, and it does not pretend to be one. The clip washes blurred club footage in a deep purple and sets each line in huge white condensed capitals across the middle of the frame, so a phrase fills the screen as it is sung. It works the way a good lyric video should: it is readable on a phone, it shows the hook before you know it, and it treats the song as something a crowd will be shouting back by the second chorus. For a record about nights out, that is a sensible format to lead with. It also gives Kah-Lo room. Her verse gets the same oversized treatment as Tinie’s, which suits a track that hands the second half of the story to a different voice. Where it falls short The trouble is that an album pitched as a love letter to real rooms gets, for its newest single, a clip with no room in it. Tinie has argued that shared experiences in actual venues are becoming rare; a stack of purple text over smeared footage is about as far from a sweaty basement as a video can get. The video’s title on YouTube also credits Tinie alone, leaving Kah-Lo’s name to the lyrics posted beneath it, which undersells a featured artist on a single. The song itself fits the wider album, which one early British review called lively and full of bounce but short of the big pop moments that made “Pass Out” and his 2017 hit “Text From Your Ex.” Three days after release, the lyric video had about 20,000 views. The live test comes soon. His first major headline tour in almost a decade opens in Stockholm on November 16 and reaches London’s Roundhouse on December 3. Further reading Wikipedia: Tinie Tempah Image: JaceMerlyn, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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