{"id":1233,"date":"2026-07-09T17:15:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:46:15","slug":"ne-yo-highway-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/ne-yo-highway-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Ne-Yo &#8211; Highway 79"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.tidal.com\/albums\/536041968\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width:100%;height:700px\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ne-Yo just dropped <em>Highway 79<\/em>, his tenth studio album and first in four years. Recorded entirely in Nashville, this is his country-inspired project\u2014named after his birth year and the highway that cuts through his home state of Arkansas. It\u2019s not a full country record. It\u2019s Ne-Yo folding twang, acoustic guitars, and backroad energy into the R&amp;B voice that made him a star.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is Ne-Yo leaning into his roots without abandoning what he does best. <em>Highway 79<\/em> feels personal, warm, and intentional. Twenty years after \u201cSo Sick,\u201d he\u2019s still writing about the heart, just taking a different road to get there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ne-Yo just dropped Highway 79, his tenth studio album and first in four years. Recorded entirely in Nashville, this is his country-inspired project\u2014named after his birth year and the highway that cuts through his home state of Arkansas. It\u2019s not a full country record. It\u2019s Ne-Yo folding twang, acoustic guitars, and backroad energy into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album","category-rb-rhythm-and-blues","category-rhythm-and-blues","category-rnb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rapreportcards.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}