Fred again.. New Release: DID IT AGAIN with Travy & Elzzz
Maya LinTravy, Elzzz and Fred again.. release the single that started on a Dublin Twitch stream, debuted live before 8,000 people at RDS Simmonscourt, and starred in an Apple TV+ concert special.
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DID IT AGAIN
Travy x Elzzz x Fred again..
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DID IT AGAINFred again.. has officially released 'DID IT AGAIN' with Irish drill duo Travy and Elzzz, a track that has been doing what Fred again.. tracks always seem to do: existing, loudly and publicly, for months before it had a release date. The collaboration grew out of a Twitch livestream from Dublin on October 30, 2025, in which all three artists gathered in a studio to finish two tracks in real time.
By November 1, 'DID IT AGAIN' had been performed live in front of 8,000 people at RDS Simmonscourt. By New Year's Eve, it had featured in an Apple Music concert special broadcast from the same show. Its official single release, with an official music video, arrives now with Travy and Elzzz leading the billing.
The single carries on the identity of the USB project in its most direct form: music made communally, in a specific place, with the city and its artists as co-authors. Dublin was Fred's fifth stop on the USB002 tour, ten cities, ten weeks, each revealing its collaborators and its music in real time, before a crowd that had secured tickets in minutes.
That the two Irish tracks from that week, this one and 'Talk of the Town' with Sammy Virji and Reggie are only now receiving full single treatment confirms the scale of the backlog Fred again.. has built up through this process. The USB approach has never been about getting to streaming quickly. It has been about building something in front of people first.
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Talk of the TownThe Artist
Travy: First rappers to achieve a No.1 album in Ireland, known for a sound described as 'so different from what's traditionally consumed' in mainstream Irish music.
Elzzz: Described by Travy as forming 'unstoppable' energy when they collaborate, their chemistry on 'DID IT AGAIN' described by Hot Press as 'magic, in the studio and on stage'.
How It Happened - Timeline
October 30, 2025
Twitch live stream from Dublin - all three artists in the studio
Fred again.., Travy, Elzzz and Reggle gather to finish two tracks live. 'DID IT AGAIN' and 'Talk of the Town' are both debuted on the stream.
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October 31 - November 1, 2025
Button Factory pop-up and RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin
The track is performed live at a surprise pop-up at The Button Factory the same week, then again at RDS Simmonscourt before approximately 8,000 people with Tracy and Rlzzz leaping onto the stage to perform it.
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December 31, 2025
Apple Music Live: Fred again.. broadcast globally
The Dublin RDS show, the only USB002 date to be filmed, broadcast on Apple Music as a New Year's Eve concert special with 'DID IT AGAIN' as a centerpiece moment.
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June 2026
'DID IT AGAIN' released as an official single with official music video
Full release via Atlantic Records. Official music video on YouTube. Billing: Travy x Elzzz x Fred again.. - the Irish artist lead.
Travy, on the release: " "People always ask why us, but the energy me and Elzzz have when we come together is unstoppable, and you can hear that on this track once again. We've already made history as the first rappers to get a No. 1 album in Ireland, and Fred again.. tapping in with us on this song just shows why. The line 'they said the aura threatening them' speaks to experiences we've had where parts of the mainstream Irish industry found it difficult to digest our style of music because it's so different from what's traditionally consumed here."
The USB Project
The USB series which this track is part of, is Fred again..'s ongoing project of making music in cities, with the artists of those cities, in front of an audience before it is ever released. The USB002 run visited ten cities across ten weeks, with each city's location revealed only the weekend before.
Collaborators across the run included Caribou, Floating Points, Danny Brown, Ca7riel, Paco Amoroso, Sammy Virji, Amyl and the Sniffers, and Kettama among many others. Live guests at the shows included Four Tet, Skream & Benga, and HAAi. The shows were phone-free: attendees had their camera lenses stickered at the door to maximise presence and protect the experience from existing as content before it existed as a live event.
Of the ten USB002 shows, Dublin was chosen as the sole filmed performance a deliberate decision. Fred had said: "We wanted to document one of these shows and, well, Dublin is the place to do it." The city brought Travy, Elzzz, Reggie, EMA, Caolan Ryan, and members of Fontaines DC to the stage or the production, making it the most densely Irish night of the entire run and the one that will live longest in the documented record of the project.
