Australian hip-hop artist YNG Martyr has released “Since You Been Gone”, a new single and video that reimagines Kelly Clarkson’s anthem of female empowerment as a heavy, bass-loaded rage track. After amassing over 350 million global streams, YNG Martyr will release his new album ‘CHALANT’ this spring. The track follows “MILKSHAKES”, his raw take on Kelis’ early-2000s anthem “Milkshake”. Feeling liberated from toxic relationships, YNG chants “I’m winning again” over buoyant trap drums as he leaves the past behind. He explains, “‘Since You Been Gone’ started in LA last year, with my producer, Reyko, we were messing around in the studio and took Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Since U Been Gone’ and flipped it into something completely different; it’s heavy, metallic, bass-loaded, full crowd-energy rage! It’s made for jumping, moshing, raging, gym sessions—all of it.”
YNG continues, “The song’s pretty simple at its core. It’s about cutting a toxic person out of your life and finally killing it again. It’s about feeling like yourself again and realizing you’re way better off after cutting something out that was holding you back. I honestly didn’t think this was going to come out. I posted a snippet in my Discord like ‘this will probably never drop,’ and everyone lost their mind and told me I had to release it. They were right!” YNG recently announced performances at Rolling Loud Australia on March 7-8 and a special appearance at Red Rocks Park & Amphitheatre on April 16. Raised in Townsville, Queensland, where the music scene was virtually nonexistent, YNG Martyr built his career by looking outward. His genre-blurring sound fuses jerk, rage, and new wave experimental rap with boom-bap lyricism, drawing from artists like Mac Miller and Earl Sweatshirt. His impressive resume includes international tours with Iann Dior and DC the Don, performances at Spilt Milk, Falls Festival, and SXSW, and writing “Still Humble” for WWE superstar Logan Paul.