Tarrus Riley Drops Uplifting New Single, You Can Make It Try

Tarrus Riley has built a career delivering conscious reggae at exactly the right moment, and his latest single "You Can Make It (Try)," released through Stingray Records on March 27, 2026, lands with the same deliberate precision. The track went live across Spotify, Apple Music, and major streaming platforms simultaneously, with Reggaeville featuring it on their March 27 new-releases page within hours of the drop.

The son of reggae legend Jimmy Riley, Tarrus has long occupied a lane that blends roots sensibility with modern, emotionally direct songwriting. "You Can Make It (Try)" sits squarely in that tradition: motivational at its core, the title alone signals the kind of encouragement that fans have come to expect from one of contemporary reggae's most consistent hitmakers. Where a lot of artists reach for inspiration as a vague aesthetic, Riley tends to make it feel personal and earned.

That specificity is what makes the track travel. The song fits naturally into the moments people actually need a lift: grinding through a job hunt, pushing through the final weeks of a training cycle, making it to the other side of something that felt unfinishable. A chorus built on persistence has a way of becoming a singalong at the right festival stage, and with the spring and summer season opening up, "You Can Make It (Try)" is well-positioned to find those settings. Riley's Stingray Records release is clearly engineered for playlist placement across conscious, roots, and motivational programming, and given his 1.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify, it has the platform to move quickly.

The single follows a notably productive stretch for Riley in early 2026. "Burning Desire (Live Acoustic)" dropped on March 6, and "You + Me = Good Life (Acoustic)" appeared on January 30, signaling a deliberate strategy of sustained momentum rather than the old album-cycle model. Three distinct releases in under two months from a veteran artist suggests Stingray and Riley are feeding streaming algorithms intentionally, keeping him visible on reggae playlists heading into the busiest booking season of the year.

Whether the track anchors a radio interview, closes a festival set, or simply becomes the song someone needs on a hard Tuesday morning, the message is the same one Riley has been refining for years: try.