For Li63rty, time has a way of pulling the truth into view. With “Divine Times,” an 11 track, 34 minute release, the Haitian-American artist, author, and entrepreneur opens her life up as it’s happening, shaping loss into language and pain into purpose.
In February of last year, she lost her father, and the ground shifted. Everything around her felt unfamiliar. Grief cracked something open, and music became the one place that still made sense. Writing songs wasn’t a way out. It was a way through. What came back from that process is raw, faithful, and unguarded. “Divine Times” carries the sound of that awakening.
Executive produced by Finn Ominal, the album plays like a journal you can hear turning page by page. It begins with “11:11 (Intro),” a poetic invocation that sets the mood for what follows. Over soulful textures and a haunting female backed hook, Li63rty speaks her intentions out loud, trusting a vision before it fully takes shape. She nods to the people who believed early, and she holds tight to faith even when the next step stays hidden. When she raps, “They gon’ doubt me but I will be nominated… what I manifest gon’ be elevated,” it lands as more than a flex. It’s conviction, plain and steady. The song keeps returning to the same idea, belief has to survive the part where no one else can see what you see.
“Make It Home” widens the frame. It’s smooth and cinematic, leaning on classic hip hop poise with R&B warmth. Strings drift under her measured delivery as she returns to her roots and reaffirms discipline, grace, and forward motion. There’s a calm focus here, like someone choosing composure on purpose. Hip hop comes through refined and clean, built for reflection rather than noise.
Then “Forward” arrives with a simpler directive and a sharper edge. The production is velvety, the writing is precise. Li63rty keeps the message uncluttered and firm, keep going, even with weight on your back. She doesn’t over explain it. She just plants the line and lets it stand.
On “Callin’,” reflection turns into something closer to revelation. “I was broke in my soul tryna fix it with cash, now I’m rich in direction even broke I still pass” hits with quiet force, because she delivers it like a hard truth she had to learn the long way. “Ain’t no GPS when your vision is spiritual” does the same. This is a record about patience, humility, and answering purpose without taking shortcuts. It’s also about what it costs to look in the mirror, let pride fall away, and choose direction anyway.
The album’s emotional center lives in “Hooked,” where she takes on depression, trauma, and substance use as escape without romanticizing any of it. Through the story of a friend lost to addiction, Li63rty names the wounds people hide behind bright moments and quick fixes. Early on, she delivers one of the project’s most haunting lines, “The brightest lights hide the darkest wounds.” The point isn’t shock. It’s honesty. The track sits heavy, and it needs to. Healing starts when the story gets told straight.
“Stuck On You” eases the tension and lets a different kind of vulnerability surface. It’s romantic, but restrained, more felt than announced. Nova Bodo’s graceful presence helps the song float, and the chemistry stays human, connection without cliché, intimacy without overexposure.
A brief pivot comes with “Hoodlogue,” featuring a shout out from Florida rap icon Ace Hood. It’s a compact moment of recognition, a co sign that signals respect earned through authenticity. From there, the album closes with “Nominated,” bringing the narrative back around to where it began, belief taking shape, vision affirmed, timing honored.
Across “Divine Times,” Li63rty keeps track of the people she met, the dangers she moved through, the temptations that tried to pull her off course, and the love that kept her steady. Somewhere between chaos and clarity, coping became calling. Music stopped being somewhere to hide, and started sounding like direction.
“Divine Times” feels like more than a collection of songs. It plays like faith unfolding in real time, healing that keeps the scars visible, purpose that stays grounded, gratitude that remembers the cost. Li63rty makes room for everyone who believed, prayed, created, pushed, and stood beside her, and you can hear that energy threaded through the records.
As a listener, you feel the weight of what she’s offered. She bled on the mic and kept the lyricism personal, emotionally resonant, and close to the bone. Each layer carries her life, her soul, and her becoming. The project holds your attention because the stakes feel real.
This captures where Li63rty stands. It also captures the moment she chose to stand there, right on time.