Curtisy announces Get A Life! mixtape with producer owin for March

The Dublin rapper will release a new mixtape made in collaboration with producer owin called Get A Life! on March 20th.

‘My Friends’ is the first track from the record that spends its first half with Curtisy in his reflective diaristic woes before a switch into a brighter day with vocalist Emily Beattie bring the track to a sweet denouement.

The draggy ephemeral ‘Knotted’ is also released today on Bandcamp alongside it with that MIKE/ Earl Sweatshirt influence to the fore.

Get A Life! expands the sonic palette of the Jobstown rapper “with tracks often fractured into dual movements, blurring boundaries between swampy hip-hop, drill, soul, and alternative dream-pop.”

Lil Skag features on three tracks along with the recently released ‘Talk of The Town’.

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Curtisy – Get A Life!

Pre-order 12′ vinyl and digital here.

1. Talk of the Town (ft. Lil Skag)
2. Tell Me I’m Good
3. Yesterday’s News (Ft. Lil Skag)
4. Sonny
5. Knotted
6. The Instigator
7. Bones (Ft. Lil Skag)
8. My Friends (Ft. Emily Beattie)
9. Couch Springs

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About Curtisy – Get A Life!

Following his lauded UK and Ireland tour, debut album WHAT WAS THE QUESTION and the hikii-produced mixtape Beauty In The Beast, Irish rapper Curtisy returns with GET A LIFE, a new collaborative album with producer owin that signals a sharp turn forward for one of Ireland’s most distinctive voices.

What began as a smaller idea quickly snowballed into something more expansive — a project shaped by opposition, contrast, and contradiction. Even the physical record reflects it: two vinyl covers, front and back, light and dark, mirroring an album built around duality. That tension runs through the title itself. Get a life as an insult, get a life as reclamation.

Curtisy describes it as something you might hear from a parent while you’re sitting in the gaff doing nothing — cutting, but ultimately caring. There’s a negative ring to it, but it’s spoken here with warmth, humour, and self-awareness. Living, for Curtisy, isn’t some empty mantra; it’s hard-earned. “I can’t make music if I don’t go outside and live,” he admits, “but it’s difficult to go out and live with the anxiety that I have.” Growth, on GET A LIFE, isn’t idealised — it’s messy, real-time, and unresolved.

There’s a clear sense of creative development running throughout the album. Working closely with producer owin, Curtisy unlocks new sonic pathways, t’s a restless, shape-shifting record, yet one that remains firmly rooted in Curtisy’s own world. His familiar MIKE- and Earl Sweatshirt-adjacent introspection remains intact, sharpened into some of the strongest work of his career, but now he wields a bow with even more strings.

That expansion didn’t come easily. Curtisy speaks candidly about feeling boxed into a narrow idea of what hip-hop should sound like — “hippity hoppity Ice Cube Today Was A Good Day type rap music,” as he puts it. Owin’s production challenged that instinct, encouraging him to sing, to experiment, to step outside expectations. “Every time I get in there I can’t help but be inspired to take a new direction,” Curtisy says. “This guy believes in me and he pushes me.” The result is a record that doesn’t strain for cohesion but trusts curiosity instead. 

The album’s dualism is echoed in its collaborations. Lil Skag features across three tracks — ‘Talk Of The Town’, ‘Yesterday’s News’ and the standout ‘Bones’, the latter carrying the weight of a moment, with the feel of an unofficial Irish anthem in the lineage of Curtisy’s celebrated feature on Lil Skag’s ‘Usually’. It’s a meeting that crystallises the push-and-pull at the heart of contemporary Irish rap: raw energy sharpened by vulnerability, regional grit balanced by disarming honesty.

Elsewhere, the influence of artists like Jim Legxacy surfaces less as imitation and more as permission — permission to treat songs as interconnected pieces, to approach music as an art project rather than a checklist of singles. Curtisy speaks with clear excitement about the current moment in Irish music, namechecking peers like deathtoricky and beddy minaj with the enthusiasm of someone deeply embedded in the scene rather than hovering above it. There’s a sense that GET A LIFE arrives not in isolation, but as part of a wider creative swell — one existing at a time that finally feels ready for a record like this.

At its emotional centre sits ‘Sonny’, a track that scales new sonic and personal heights. Dedicated to his mother — and named after his nephew — it carries the weight of promise, memory, and quiet determination. Curtisy recalls telling his Ma he’d be famous one day, half as reassurance, half as survival tactic, dreaming not of excess but of something modest and deeply human. “All she wanted was a mobile home, somewhere nice like Wexford” he says. Lines like “Mummy we’re getting that second house, the one with the wheels on it that you dreamed of” land with devastating simplicity. Since ‘Sonny’ was written, Curtisy admits, the rest of the project began orbiting around it.

It scales new emotional and sonic heights, its second half built for large rooms and collective catharsis, reframing Curtisy from underground stalwart to something closer to a generational frontman, hinting at a future where his music occupies the same emotional territory as Ireland’s most resonant modern bands.

The album closes that emotional circuit without rushing it. On ‘My Friends’, Curtisy leans into pop ambition with striking ease, echoing Legxacy’s emotive guitar work, dream-pop haze, and autotuned vulnerability. On ‘Knotted’, he reflects on pace — on choosing patience over noise, likening himself to the tortoise chasing the hare. In a culture addicted to constant output and algorithmic urgency, GET A LIFE feels definitely unhurried. “I took my time with this music,” Curtisy says. “I care about this shit.”

In that sense, GET A LIFE doesn’t just document Curtisy growing up — it documents an artist learning to slow down, to trust instinct over expectation, and to exist comfortably in contradiction. It’s an album shaped by light and dark, anxiety and ambition, humour and heartbreak. And in capturing all of it so plainly, Curtisy once again proves himself not just as a rapper, but as one of the most quietly vital storytellers in Irish music right now.