New Music Albums: REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE (Genesis Owusu)

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Artist:
Genesis Owusu

Genre:
Rap

Total Time:
50:00

Record Label:
Ourness

Purchase Album:
Amazon Music,
Apple Music, Spotify

Release Date
May 15, 2026

Find out more about this album release after the jump.

Purchasing Links

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Buy the MP3 from Amazon

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Buy the Album from Apple Music

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Listen on Spotify

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Product Description: “Living in the 2020s has been such a strange experience,” Genesis Owusu tells Apple Music. “I feel like hatred and greed, prejudice, have become cool again. It’s a plague, or a scourge—a worldwide scourge.” That explains half the title of the Ghanaian Australian rapper’s third album, then. As for REDSTAR WU? “As much as it sounds like a character, it’s more an alias. This is the least fantastical album I’ve done. It’s very much right here, right now. But I felt like it was a cool alias, a shining beam through the darkness. And red is my color.”

Bristling with punk urgency in songs like “PIRATE RADIO” and “MOST NORMAL AMERICAN VOTER:” (“because there’s a lot of anger and frustration”), yet tempered with woozy synths in “4LIFE” (“because things feel confused and paranoid”), the album tackles the world’s political and societal ills while urging the need for community. Here, Owusu talks Apple Music through the record, track by track.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . PIRATE R IO (02:55)

2 . STAMP E (03:09)

3 . HELLSTAR Genesis Owusu & Duckwrth (03:52)

4 . FALLING BOTH WAYS Genesis Owusu & Ladyhawke (03:14)

5 . THE WOR W E SCOURGE (04:50)

6 . BLESS ARE THE MEEK (03:51)

7 . LIFE KEEPS GOING (03:39)

8 . MOST NORMAL AMERICAN VOTER: (02:37)

9 . EATH CULT ZOMBIE (03:37)

10 . SITUATIONS (03:35)

11 . 4LIFE (04:11)

12 . RUNNIN OUTTA TIME (03:34)

13 . BIG DOG (03:36)

14 .ONE4ALL (03:46)

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