Pretoria-born genre-fluid artist Roiii announces his return to melodic singing with “Hold Myself,” teasing the upcoming single with a simple but powerful message to his audience – “Singing Roiii is back.”
The announcement alone moved timelines. Fans who followed him from his debut days – when singing played a central role before rap and drill took over – responded immediately. Because Roiii’s melodic instinct was never gone. It was just waiting for the right moment to lead again. So “Hold Myself” does not arrive as a reinvention. It arrives as a reclamation.
His journey to this point covers real creative ground. Skhanda World, independent moves, The Extra Mile joint project with Boity, freestyle drops, and a constantly shifting approach to genre have all defined different chapters of his career.
But through all of it, his core audience stayed. And his Instagram message acknowledged them directly – thanking the ones who remembered him before the drill era, who kept showing up through every pivot. That kind of artist-to-fan honesty is rare.
The “Hold Myself” concept suggests vulnerability and emotional restraint – an artist choosing to contain something rather than release it. That framing fits naturally within a melodic singer’s territory and points toward a record with real emotional depth rather than surface-level vibes.
Watch for “Hold Myself” and tell us – were you waiting for singing Roiii to come back?
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