Major Lazer returns with “Gangsta” featuring Busy Signal and Kybba, plus a new fourth member.
Major Lazer is back in 2025 with fresh music, a new lineup, and their trademark blend of global club energy. The collective, long steered by Diplo, Walshy Fire, and Ape Drums, has officially welcomed America Foster, a British-Jamaican artist, content creator, and performer whose humor, bold presence, and genre-fluid approach have made her a rising figure online.
Their comeback single “Gangsta” reunites Major Lazer with dancehall icon Busy Signal, whose vocals helped shape their 2013 classic Watch Out For This (Bumaye). Also on the track is Kybba, the Italy-raised, Amsterdam-based producer behind Basshall Movement. Together, they deliver a big-room dancehall hybrid: a heavyweight Major Lazer track built on sharp riddims and Busy Signal’s quickfire wordplay.
For Foster, the journey into the group began with a collaboration in Jamaica that evolved into a full membership. She made her live debut with Major Lazer in Paris at Fête de la Musique and went public with the news after their headline slot at Austria’s Electric Love Festival. “Major Lazer are back… and it looks like I’m the fourth member for the foreseeable future!” she wrote on Instagram, thanking the crew for taking her under their wing.
Diplo frames this new chapter as both a continuation and a reboot: “Busy Signal was a big part of our journey with Major Lazer, blessing us with ‘Bumaye,’ a massive single that helped define what Major Lazer was going to be. Now, more than a decade later, we’re starting another journey with America joining the group. It’s amazing how much she complements the dynamic we’ve already built with Walshy and Ape Drums.”
True to form, Major Lazer have been stirring things up with guerrilla-style sets, including a Bronx bodega rave in July, multiple street party takeovers, and this week’s return to London with performances at Notting Hill Carnival and a secret show in Shoreditch alongside Busy Signal to mark the single’s release.
Next up is a headline slot at Goldrush Music Festival in Arizona, as well as a series of spontaneous pop-ups at U.S. colleges this fall, with additional European and North American dates to follow.
Fifteen years on from Guns Don’t Kill People… Major Lazer remains one of the few groups able to collapse continents onto a single dancefloor. With “Gangsta” and the addition of America Foster, they are signaling a future that is as wild and borderless as their past.
