JoJo’s ‘Agape’ mixtape cover.

Today is the big day for JoJo and her fans! As the singer celebrates her 22nd birthday, she has issued her new ‘Agape’ mixtape as a free download and even penned a special open letter to her loyal followers, who continue to support her although her label refuses to do the same.

Earlier this week, JoJo made her ‘Agape’ mixtape available for streaming online. Spanning just 28 minutes, the set features productions by Austin Brown, Scott Bruzenak and Boi-1da. Read JoJo’s letter to her fans, see the track list with added credits and download your free copy of ‘Agape’ below:

My name is Joanna Noëlle Levesque and I’ve loved music more and longer than I’ve ever consistently loved anything in life. Music wakes me up and puts me to bed every single day, without fail. I obsess over it. I want to know everything about it! I want to snuggle with it at night. I want to be as close to it as friggin’ possible.

When I was 17, I wanted to make it official. I snuck away from the hotel room my mom and I were staying at and got a tattoo. On my ring finger on the left hand; a treble clef. BAM. To remind me not to let anything, or anyone take precendent over the perfect mate I had in music. I feel often like I’m better explaining myself through song. Better than trying to talk about it.

The older I got and the more music I inhaled and was exposed to, songwriting and interpreting other people’s songs became my most gratifying form of release. I felt the passion of my favorite artists coming through their records and I always wanted to emote like that. To be so powerful and connected so as to radiate such energy and truth.

I thought about naming this collection of songs “Live Free or Die” after the New Hampshire state motto (which inspired the tattoo on the back of my neck), but upon further thought, it sounded dramatic and militant and scary. And that it SO not what this is all about! Its really about friends coming together and bonding over a mutual love for music then seeing what grows out of it. Not about industry politics, agendas, empty-promises, ego, swag, pretension, or a budget of any kind.

THANK YOU for listening. You don’t know what it means to me to have a platform to express myself and interact with you. Doing what I love is an honor and a privilege. One that I take to heart. Oh to be making music in the modern time…The internet has changed my life, man! Who’da thunk it. I’m thankful and more excited than ever for the future. My story is unique, confusing, and tumultuous at times. But I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

AGÁPĒ

CREDITS:
Back2thebeginningagain
Produced by Jahi Sundance/State of Emergency & Thundercat
Written by JoJo & Jahi Sundance/State of Emergency

We Get By
Produced by Scott Bruzenak, Austin Brown & Tommy Parker
Written by JoJo, Austin Brown, Tommy Parker & Scott Bruzenak

Interlude Un

Take the Canyon
Produced by Austin Brown & Scott Bruzenak
Written by JoJo, Austin Brown & Scott Bruzenak

Billions
Produced by Scott Bruzenak
Written by JoJo, Austin, Scott, Kelly Parker & Pavel Gitnik

Interlude Deux: Joel’s Jam

Thinking Out Loud
Written by JoJo, Austin Brown & Scott Bruzenak

Interlude Trois: Love This Sh*t

White Girl In Paris
Produced by Scott Bruzenak
Written by Joni Mitchell

LTS Reprise

Andre
Produced by Steve Franks
Written by JoJo

St. Patrick’s Day Interlude

Can’t Handle The Truth
Produced by Boi1da
Written by JoJo & Elijah Blake 

Click here to download ‘Agape’