Lil Skies Opens His ‘3rd Eye’ on New EP
Lil Skies is seeing things clearly. On Friday, November 6, the Pennsylvania rapper released “3rd Eye,” a three-song EP through Big Noise Music Group, and he framed the moment himself the next day on Instagram, writing, “My 3rd👁️ open, im still seein when i blink!💋” The message is simple: this is not a vague comeback tease, but a finished piece of music, out now and ready to be played straight through.
The EP runs nine minutes across three songs, and it wastes none of them. It opens with the title track, “3rd Eye,” at two minutes and forty seconds, followed by “No Fear” at three minutes and eight seconds, and it closes with “Make A Wish” at three minutes and twenty-three seconds. All three songs are credited to Skies alone. Apple Music and Audiomack list the same three songs in the same order, with no guest features on either listing, so the project stands entirely on his voice. Apple Music lists the release as “3rd Eye – Single,” but at three songs and nine minutes, it plays like a short EP rather than a one-off single.
The title does a lot of the work. A “third eye” is a familiar image for perception, for seeing what is in front of you and what is coming next, and Skies leans into that idea rather than explaining it away. His Instagram caption, posted a day after the release, keeps the same tone: open, alert and unbothered. The cover image he chose for that post shows him looking down in a black, embellished jacket, his face tattoos on full display — a portrait that fits a project about looking inward and trusting what he sees.
The title track also arrives with an official video, posted to Lil Skies’ Official Artist Channel on YouTube. The video gives the song a visual home and a clear entry point for listeners who find Skies through YouTube first, and the release page links out to the EP on streaming services. For a three-song project, that matters: the video is not an afterthought, but the main way many fans will meet the record.
The short format suits him. Nine minutes, three songs and no guests leave no room for filler, and the sequence moves cleanly from the title track’s statement of intent to “No Fear” and then to “Make A Wish,” a closing title that sounds like a resolution. It is a tight check-in, not a sprawling statement, and it asks to be judged on what it actually contains rather than on what might follow it. If Skies has more coming, this is a focused way to say so; if this is the whole statement for now, it is complete on its own terms.
“3rd Eye” is out now on streaming services, including Apple Music and Audiomack, with the official video for the title track on YouTube. Stream the three songs, watch the video, and start with the title track — it is the clearest statement of where Lil Skies’ head is right now.
Photo: Lil Skies via Instagram (@lilskies).