A fearless Black trans hip-hop soul statement built on transformation, intimacy, resistance, and joy
(Friday, Jun 26, 2026) - Emerging Black trans hip-hop soul duo Transonic are set to release their self-titled debut album Transonic on Friday, June 26, 2026. This release is an emotionally expansive, genre-bending project that turns transition into sound.
Blending hip-hop, alternative soul, smoky intimacy, sharp lyricism, and fearless vulnerability, Transonic is both deeply personal and defiantly communal. Across nine tracks, the duo explore gender, Blackness, love, anxiety, pleasure, ambition, survival, and self-creation with a voice that feels entirely their own.
From the unapologetic swagger of “HookJab” and “I Need Dat” to the hazy tenderness of “Metadicinal” and “Heatwave,” the album moves fluidly between confrontation and comfort. Songs like “Fly Away With Me” and “Transitions_voicememo” offer some of the project’s most vulnerable moments, confronting mental health, visibility, and the emotional labor of existing while trans in America.
At its core, Transonic asks listeners a powerful question: have you ever heard yourself change?
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This album is the culmination of life lived unashamedly. Transition is beautifully complicated. It’s expansive. It’s personal. Undefinable. It’s as constant as change. This is that. That is Transonic.”
Meysha
Entirely Black trans-made, the project centers community at every level of creation. From production and songwriting to artwork, mixing, and mastering, Transonic intentionally uplifts the labor, artistry, and vision of Black trans creatives.
Sonically, Transonic feels like “shared intimacy like smoking together - smooth like honey but also in your face speaking with confidence.” The album’s textured production, led by Korbin Hawkins, creates a world where sharp bars, soul melodies, weed smoke, bedroom confessions, and political clarity coexist naturally.
With themes of releasing old patterns, renewed inspiration, and the limitless worlds Black trans people create for themselves, Transonic arrives not only as an album, but as a declaration.
Have you ever heard yourself change? Listened to every audible detail of the shedding of your last self? Yeah. This album for us is just that. And some joy mixed in too.”
The duo shares.
Adding to the momentum surrounding the release, Transonic were recently selected by Tidal as the featured emerging artist on its Melodies and Bars playlist! This marks the duo’s first official playlist placement. The recognition highlights the growing impact of Transonic’s boundary-pushing sound and arrives as an early industry co-sign for a project already resonating through its fearless honesty, sharp lyricism, and genre-defying approach to hip-hop and soul.
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Credits
Production: Korbin Hawkins
Album Artwork: Arien Marley
Lyricist/vocalist: Meysha
Album Artwork: Arien Marley
Lyricist/vocalist: Meysha
There’s quite literally no one like us. We don’t sound like anything you’ve heard before and we invite the world to vibe with us. No need to compare us to any others - listen to us anew.”
Korbin and Meysha
About Transonic
Transonic is a Black trans hip-hop soul duo creating music that feels both radically intimate and impossible to ignore. Blending hip-hop, alternative soul, sharp lyricism, smoky vulnerability, and experimental storytelling, the duo craft songs that move between tenderness, confrontation, pleasure, grief, humor, ambition, and transformation - often all at once.
Entirely Black trans-made, Transonic’s work centers authenticity at every level of creation. From production and songwriting to visual direction and engineering, the duo intentionally build art rooted in community, self-definition, and liberation. Their sound is fluid and emotionally layered: smooth like honey one moment, razor-sharp the next. Whether delivering confident rap cadences, vulnerable confessions, or hypnotic soul melodies, Transonic refuse easy categorization.
More than a music project, Transonic is a declaration. One rooted in survival, expansion, and self-invention. Their work speaks directly to people learning how to become themselves in public, while still making space to dance, smoke, laugh, heal, and dream bigger.
This isn’t music asking for permission.
It’s music arriving fully as itself.
It’s music arriving fully as itself.