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Singer, songwriter and actress Keri Hilson hasn’t had a lot of a presence on the music scene in additional than a decade.

Positive, the “Fairly Lady Rock” singer has been within the information in recent times for belongings you actually don’t need to be within the information for—similar to caping for Donald Trump and spreading COVID-19 misinformation—however followers haven’t been getting the information they really need, which is the discharge date for a brand new album.

Effectively, apparently, which may be altering quickly as Hilson renewed hope for her loyal followers throughout a brand new episode of Tank and J. Valentine’s R&B Cash podcast.

Now, earlier this yr, Hilson teased followers with a promise of a 3rd studio album throughout an look on the Behind the Masks podcast. She additionally talked slightly about what was taking so lengthy.

“I can say that [the new album] solutions questions,” Hilson mentioned, HipHopDX reported. “I can say that I’m pleased with it. And I can say that there have been a few false begins. They weren’t all me! There was some like, I don’t know, faux PR or like followers would craft faux press releases and tweets.

“However there have been false begins and proper earlier than my dad died, that was positively one which I used to be answerable for as a result of that’s what I used to be planning on doing after which that occurred,” she continued. “However I really feel like I’m nearer now.”

Yeah—in order that was again in February. Throughout the R&B Cash episode, which aired Saturday, Hilson was nonetheless fairly obscure about when her first album since 2010’s No Boys Allowed can be accessible and about why there’s been so many delays, however she did make it clear her and her workforce has each intention of releasing a brand new undertaking.

“It took a second; plenty of issues occurred that prevented it,” she mentioned. “I blame it on one factor, however actually it was years of a wrestle. I fought via that, however I’m free, and I’m prepared.

“We’re beginning to take conferences to determine how we need to do that factor [and] the place we need to do that factor,” she added.

Welp, we’ll see what occurs, however hopefully, Hilson and her folks have gotten it collectively and we will count on the gifted R&B songstress to hit us with some new work very quickly.