{"id":358,"date":"2026-11-09T21:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T02:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/?p=358"},"modified":"2026-11-09T21:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T02:32:22","slug":"ella-mai-celebrates-32-with-surprise-ep-3two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Ella Mai Celebrates 32 With Surprise EP &#8216;3two&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ella Mai marked her 32nd birthday with a surprise. On Friday, November 6, the Grammy-winning R&amp;B singer released the three-song EP \u201c3two\u201d through 10 Summers and Interscope Records, announcing it herself on Instagram with the words: \u201c3two. AVAILABLE NOW EVERYWHERE! this week i celebrated my 32nd birthday.\u201d The release arrived with no advance warning and no rollout, just a birthday-week gift from Mai to her fans \u2014 and a short, focused follow-up to the album she released earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EP runs just 10 minutes across three songs, all by Mai alone, with no guest features listed. It opens with \u201cFavourite T-Shirt,\u201d followed by \u201cOver and Over,\u201d and closes with \u201cAll I Know,\u201d each one a compact R&amp;B sketch rather than a sprawling statement. The brevity is the point: \u201c3two\u201d is a small, deliberate release, built to be played on repeat rather than to announce a new era in one sweep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across the three tracks, Mai stays close to the intimate, confessional writing that has defined her best work. \u201cFavourite T-Shirt\u201d reaches for the comfort of something familiar after a relationship has ended, while \u201cOver and Over\u201d leans into the push and pull of a love that keeps drawing her back. \u201cAll I Know\u201d closes the set on a quieter note, finding security in a partner who lets her be herself. None of the songs chase a trend; together, they sound like a singer checking in, in her own voice, on her own terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ella Mai - Favourite T-Shirt (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SOn93tBTbao?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The title and the timing are both deliberate. \u201c3two\u201d follows Mai\u2019s 2024 EP \u201c3,\u201d a three-song birthday release of its own, and turns that idea into a sequel: three songs, again, for the birthday that turned 32. In her announcement, Mai called \u201c3\u201d \u201csuch a special project\u201d and said the new EP was a way to say thank you \u201cfor an amazing year.\u201d The numbering \u2014 3, then 3two \u2014 makes the connection plain, and it gives the surprise release a small tradition to stand on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is also the second Ella Mai release of 2026. Her third album, \u201cDo You Still Love Me?,\u201d arrived on February 6 with 14 songs, including \u201cTell Her,\u201d \u201cLittle Things\u201d and \u201c100,\u201d and the new EP lands nine months later as a coda rather than a reset. Where the album had room to range across a full-length tracklist, \u201c3two\u201d narrows the focus to three songs and one mood \u2014 the sound of a singer who has already said plenty this year, returning with a little more to add.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c3two\u201d is available to stream everywhere now, with an official lyric video for \u201cFavourite T-Shirt\u201d on Ella Mai\u2019s YouTube channel and a visualizer featuring behind-the-scenes studio footage accompanying the release. For fans, the surprise is the reward: no countdown, no teaser campaign, just three new songs on the week Mai turned 32.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo: Ella Mai via Instagram (@ellamai).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ella Mai marked her 32nd birthday with a surprise: the three-song EP \u201c3two,\u201d released Friday, November 6, through 10 Summers and Interscope Records. The short set, led by \u201cFavourite T-Shirt,\u201d follows her February album \u201cDo You Still Love Me?\u201d and continues the birthday tradition she began with 2024\u2019s \u201c3.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","video_url":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/browser-download-20261110T022429.843231751Z-16-894306041_18642775531012538_8723772334979139633_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiphopstories.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}