{"id":2013338,"date":"2025-09-11T04:36:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2013338"},"modified":"2025-09-11T04:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:36:37","slug":"genesis-owusu-returns-with-new-single-pirate-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/genesis-owusu-returns-with-new-single-pirate-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Owusu Returns with New Single &#8216;PIRATE RADIO&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Genesis Owusu is back.<\/p>\n<p>The multiple ARIA Award winner has dropped new single \u201cPIRATE RADIO\u201d, out now via Ourness.<\/p>\n<p>Once again melding sharp punk production with hard-hitting rap, Owusu\u2019s first new music in two years offers an unsettling glimpse of our broken-apart world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rich are getting richer and us regulars are eating each other alive. Smoke-screened by paranoia-inducing culture wars and our own growing poverty. \u2018There is no war in Ba Sing Se\u2019 type shit,\u201d Owusu says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone\u2019s gotta sound the alarm and break the hypnosis. And that someone isn\u2019t going to be the guy saying immigrants are eating your cats and they probably won\u2019t have a billion dollars in their bank account either. If Elon Musk has no more haters then I\u2019m dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: PIRATE RADIO\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/1bxj95VYRQYbEzaEHD3fp3?si=2XilOpooQk23KPfxwGrb2g&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>In other Owusu news, the Ghanaian-Australian artist will embark on a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/genesis-owusu-sydney-opera-house-residency-tickets-80750\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">series of intimate showcases<\/a> this month, accompanied by his four-piece band.<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fans can catch Owusu and co. at Sydney Opera House\u2019s Studio between Thursday, September 18th-Saturday, September 20th, followed by shows at The Night Cat in Melbourne between Wednesday, September 24th-Friday, September 26th.<\/p>\n<p>Support on four nights will be provided by experimental hip-hop trio Shady Nasty, while xmunashe will support on two nights. Ticket information is available <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genesisowusu.com\/tour\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Owusu released his second studio album, <em>Struggler<\/em>, in 2023, seeing it reach the top five on the ARIA Albums Chart. Preceding that, his first album, <em>Smiling with No Teeth<\/em>, became a breakout sensation in 2021<\/p>\n<p>Owusu\u2019s debut album topped our recent <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/100-best-australian-albums-of-the-2020s-so-far-81842\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">100 Best Australian Albums of the Decade So Far lis<\/a>t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow this is how you do a debut album \u2014 loud, confident, and wonderfully chaotic,\u201d we wrote in declaring the album the winner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenesis Owusu\u2019s first album didn\u2019t make much much of a dent on the ARIA Albums Chart, scraping into the top 30 at No. 27, but its impact was felt in a major way elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOwusu and <em>Smiling with No Teeth<\/em> were the clear winners at the 2021 ARIA Awards, scooping gongs for Album of the Year, Best Hip Hop Release, and Best Independent Release, and Producer of the Year (Andrew Klippel and Dave Hammer). At our Rolling Stone Australia Awards the following year, Owusu\u2019s debut won Best Record in a \u00a0tough category featuring heavyweights like Amy Shark, Crowded House, and Tash Sultana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a rare feat to achieve cultural and cool capital alongside commercial success, but, from the very opening moments of <em>Smiling with No Teeth<\/em>, Owusu never sounded like any ordinary artist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Genesis Owusu\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/genesisowusu.ffm.to\/pirateradio\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cPIRATE RADIO\u201d<\/a> is out now via Ourness.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis Owusu is back. The multiple ARIA Award winner has dropped new single \u201cPIRATE RADIO\u201d, out now via Ourness. Once again melding sharp punk production with hard-hitting rap, Owusu\u2019s first new music in two years offers an unsettling glimpse of our broken-apart world. \u201cThe rich are getting richer and us regulars are eating each other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2013339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[339302,368689,368690],"class_list":["post-2013338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-genesis-owusu","tag-genesis-owusu-music","tag-genesis-owusu-single"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Genesis-Owusu-Returns-with-New-Single-PIRATE-RADIO.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}