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TroyBoi has built a career on making his signature wonky bass feel new every time he hands it to someone else, and “La La Land,” his new single with North Carolina’s Morray, is the latest proof he still has plenty of angles left to work. The track dropped July 31 across all major platforms and slots in as a key single from TroyBoi’s forthcoming FT EP, due out August 21, a project that finds him leaning fully into collaboration as its organizing idea.
Bass heads will recognize the DNA immediately. “La La Land” runs on the same rubbery, off kilter low end and syncopated percussion that made TroyBoi a festival mainstage fixture in the first place, the kind of production built to move a crowd rather than sit quietly in headphones. What changes the equation is Morray, whose melodic, gospel rooted vocal style, sharpened by years singing lead in his church choir back in Fayetteville, gives the track a soulful anchor that TroyBoi’s rhythm section can bounce against instead of overwhelming.
It is the fourth guest vocalist single TroyBoi has released this year alone, following “Jungle” with Shiwa, “Way Better” with Toxic Rob, and “HUSH” with Daya, and the pattern is telling. Rather than chasing a solo victory lap, TroyBoi has positioned himself as a producer building out a catalog of pairings, using his own sound as connective tissue across genres. “I’ve been a fan of Morray for a while,” he says. “I sent him the instrumental and he immediately connected with it. We both saw it as an opportunity to step into each other’s worlds. That’s exactly what this EP is about, bringing together different artists, influences, and styles, while keeping my production as the common thread that ties everything together.”
The collaboration instinct has served TroyBoi well before. His 2018 remix of Billie Eilish’s “my boy” has racked up nearly 110 million Spotify streams, and Rihanna tapped two of his productions for her 2019 Savage X Fenty show during New York Fashion Week, a placement that introduced his sound to an audience well outside dance music’s usual orbit. Morray arrives with his own résumé to match, his breakout single “Quicksand” has pulled in over 260 million YouTube views, and his back catalog moves easily between rap and R&B, which makes his voice a natural fit for a beat first collaboration like this one.
“La La Land” is engineered for exactly the moment it lands in, peak festival season, when a track needs to work equally well blasting off a mainstage rig or filling a summer playlist. FT arrives August 21 as a fuller showcase of that same instinct, TroyBoi’s production holding steady across hip-hop, electronic, and R&B textures while a rotating list of vocalists steps in and out. He backs the release with his Hear2Move Tour series, carrying the material across North American clubs and festival dates through the fall. For a producer whose name has become a crowd chant in its own right, “La La Land” is a reminder that his real strength has always been knowing exactly who to bring into the booth.
