Destin Conrad – Nervous

Above Ground Ent / Destin Conrad / EMPIRE

Text: Thomas Melia

After carv­ing out a name for him­self in the Alt‑R&B scene the past few years, Con­rad turned his exper­tise to Jazz on wHIM­SY! in 2025, and now con­tin­ues flaunt­ing his ver­sa­til­i­ty with an upcom­ing Reg­gae LP and its Dance­hall intro­duc­tion ‘Ner­vous’.

This isn’t just a heavy-bass anthem, it’s a polit­i­cal state­ment. The Alt‑R&B star uses the almost-three-minute num­ber to exude pride in his her­itage, as his moth­er is a Jamaican-native. Con­rad sports a Jamaican fur hel­met and uses the nation­al flag as a back­drop in his music video. Anoth­er aspect of his life ampli­fied in this video is his sex­u­al­i­ty. The out­spo­ken gay artist, adorns a t‑shirt which spells out ‘Kill Homo­pho­bia’ in the same colours as the Jamaican flag.

In case it wasn’t obvi­ous, Con­rad nev­er eas­es him­self into a musi­cal world, he turns heads. Some­thing which he admits him­self through­out, “When I walk in the room, dem get up / Make them ner­vous”.