Key Takeaways
- Fivio Foreign says he's stepping away from Brooklyn drill to make what he considers gospel music, aiming to praise God instead of glorifying violence and not worrying about fans' reactions.
- He recently performed his gospel single "Chasin'" with The Fire Choir during Harlem Week, framing it as a song about not chasing the wrong things and previewing a gospel-flipped version of his hit "Big Drip."
- After entering rehab in December and deciding he wanted to change his life and stop making "dumb decisions," Fivio has been sober since January and is plotting collaborations with gospel mainstays like Kirk Franklin and Mary Mary.
Fivio Foreign has revealed that he's decided to step away from making Brooklyn drill in exchange for a shift into gospel music.
Speaking to The Shade Room Live, the Brooklyn rapper and producer discussed his transition into gospel, along with plotting collaborations with Christian artists Kirk Franklin and Mary Mary.
"Sometimes in life I feel like you got to listen to that voice that's talking to you," Fivio said of his decision in the clip below. "You got to actually do something for God. I mean, you've got to actually put in a little pain for God."
The "Big Drip" artist added that he "never even thought twice" and "didn’t really care" about what fans would think of his genre change, adding that he noticed his former fans were "growing out" of his earlier, considerably "violent" music.
Elsewhere in the interview, Fivio said that while he doesn’t feel like he’s "doing gospel music," he still classifies it as such. "I'm just Fivi and I’m just trying to praise God through my music and not worship the devil through my music, push a positive image and change, you know, hopefully I get a blessing from God," he said.
Over the weekend, Fivio performed his recent gospel single, "Chasin'," with The Fire Choir during Harlem Week presented by 94.7 The Block. Check out the performance below.
Last December, Fivio announced he was entering a rehab facility, which possibly culminated into him embracing gospel music.
"I feel like I'm just at a point where I wanna change," he said in a since-deleted Instagram post. "I wanna live and I wanna stop making a lot of dumb decisions and a lot of dumb mistakes that I been making."
In July, he posted a video on IG showing him working out. He captioned the post: "This is 6 months sober & keeping God first."
