{"id":805172,"date":"2020-03-12T12:05:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T18:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=966303"},"modified":"2020-03-12T12:05:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T18:05:54","slug":"kehlani-examines-fraught-relationship-on-new-single-toxic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/kehlani-examines-fraught-relationship-on-new-single-toxic\/","title":{"rendered":"Kehlani Examines Fraught Relationship on New Single \u2018Toxic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Kehlani.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kehlani\/\">Kehlani<\/a> adds to her latest string of singles with \u201cToxic,\u201d released on Thursday. The new song addresses the fraught aspects of a toxic relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was this way for you\/Put the pussy away for you\/Thinkin\u2019 I would wait for you,\u201d Kehlani sings over a minimalist beat. \u201cAnd now that damn Julio made me a fool for you\/And now I might hit your phone up\/With that ra-ra-ra, missin\u2019 my da-da-da.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToxic\u201d is Kehlani\u2019s third official release this year, after her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kehlani-all-me-video-change-your-life-952550\/\">double music video<\/a> for \u201cAll Me\u201d and \u201cChange Your Life,\u201d as well as the single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kh7eDxSSRyo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cValentine\u2019s Day (Shameful).\u201d<\/a> Kehlani was also featured on a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/megan-thee-stallion\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a> track, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OPVxR556Kxg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHit My Phone,\u201d<\/a> from <em>Suga<\/em>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/justin-bieber\">Justin Bieber\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/justin-bieber-new-album-north-american-tour-944367\/\">\u201cGet Me\u201d<\/a> from his new album&nbsp;<em>Changes<\/em>. She has yet to announce a formal follow-up to her <em>While We Wait<\/em> mixtape from 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Kehlani is currently scheduled to tour with Bieber and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jaden-smith\/\">Jaden Smith<\/a> beginning this spring. The Changes Tour, presented by T-Mobile and promoted by AEG Presents, will kick off in Seattle at the CenturyLink Field on May 14th. The trek includes stops in Las Vegas, Chicago, Nashville, Miami and Montreal before wrapping in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on September 26th at MetLife Stadium.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kehlani-toxic-966303\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kehlani adds to her latest string of singles with \u201cToxic,\u201d released on Thursday. The new song addresses the fraught aspects of a toxic relationship. \u201cI was this way for you\/Put the pussy away for you\/Thinkin\u2019 I would wait for you,\u201d Kehlani sings over a minimalist beat. \u201cAnd now that damn Julio made me a fool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 09:24:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}