Returning to music after completing her education, Jhené Aiko released a mixtape titled 'Sailing Soul(s)' in March 2011, which was made available via her official website, JheneAiko.com. All the songs on the mixtape were written by her, except for 'July', and it featured collaborations with Miguel, Drake and Kanye West, among others. To promote the mixtape Aiko was joined by R&B singer Miguel on a one off free secret performance on Sunday, 15 July 2011, and in October she released music videos for two of the songs from the mixtape, 'My Mine' and 'Stranger'. In 2011 she also began working closely with artists from Carson-based independent record label Top Dawg Entertainment such as Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul, and the latter was featured on her 'Sail Out' EP, which was released in November 2013. Before that, however, in 2012, she met with No I.D., record producer and vice president of A&R at Def Jam, who ended up signing Aiko to his Artium Records imprint through Def Jam. Her first release on the label was '3:16AM', which was made available for digital download on iTunes in September 2012, and which was the first single from the forthcoming 'Sail Out' EP. The EP was released in November 2013, and debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 34,000 copies. In June 2014, 'To Love & Die' was released for digital download as her forthcoming album's lead single, but she had in fact recorded another albums worth of material while in the studio for the 'Sail Out' sessions, and so before the release of her actual debut record 'Souled Out' in 2014, she could have issued the '3:16AM' album in 2012, and so as she didn't do that then we'll just have to do it for her.
Track listing
01 3:16AM
02 2 Seconds
03 Comfort Inn Ending
04 For My Brother
05 I'd Rather Be
06 I'm Back
07 Keep Ya Head Up
08 Snapped
09 Everything Must Go
10 In Love We Trust
11 Wait No More
12 Burning Man (3:16PM)
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