Hip-hop producer Stoic released the single "Losing Time" on July 31, featuring Deante' Hitchcock and Nina Taylor, ahead of his upcoming album, "PAELLA!", due later in August, HotNewHipHop reported.
HotNewHipHop singled out both guests for praise, calling Taylor's hook on the track "absolutely gorgeous" and Hitchcock's verse "inspired," while crediting Stoic's own production for tying the song together into what the outlet called "a scintillating merger of sounds."
Taylor's hook anchors the track's melodic core, the kind of vocal turn that HotNewHipHop suggested carries much of the song's emotional weight before Hitchcock takes over on the verse.
Hitchcock arrives on "Losing Time" in the middle of an active year of guest features; earlier in 2026 he appeared on "Reminders," a song alongside 6lack, Childish Major and Anna Field, continuing a pattern of high-profile collaborations across the year.
Stoic's own full-length, "PAELLA!", follows "Losing Time" as his next release; HotNewHipHop's own site indexes the album under an August 19 date, consistent with the outlet's framing of the single as a lead-in to the fuller project. With the album on the horizon, "Losing Time" offers an early look at how Stoic pairs his production with guest vocalists ahead of the release.
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- Stoic released the single Losing Time on July 31
- Deante' Hitchcock and Nina Taylor feature on the track
- The song comes ahead of Stoic's album PAELLA!
- PAELLA! is due later in August
- HotNewHipHop praised Taylor's hook and Hitchcock's verse
- Deante' Hitchcock also appeared on "Reminders" with 6lack, Childish Major and Anna Field earlier in 2026
- HotNewHipHop's own site indexes "PAELLA!" under an August 19 date
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