After teasing a collaborative mixtape at the top of the year, Joey Bada$$ and XXXTENTACION are back with the first single off the project. Titled “King’s Dead (Freestyle),” the song takes on the beat from Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future and James Blake’s Black Panther track, “King’s Dead.”
During the course of the roughly two-minute remix, Joey takes the lead, X offers up the second verse and Joey sews it up at the end.
“At 17 I made six figures/ Immature young rich nigga/ About 21 I made a mil twice/ Your dreams, my real life/ I’m up early, you still asleep,” Joey spits.
Listen to “King’s Dead (Freestyle)” below.
(The last update of this article was published on January 22, 2018 and can be found below.)
Controversial rapper XXXTENTACION and Brooklyn MC Joey Bada$$ caused a stir over the weekend when they both teased a collaboration during their Instagram stories. Fans weren’t quite sure what to make of the possibility and struggled to determine whether it was a smart move for Joey considering X’s current legal troubles. Despite the mixed feelings, it’s happening.
On Monday morning (January 22), X’s publicist sent a simple message to HipHopDX that read “Confirmed,” officially making a Joey-X collaborative mixtape a reality.
The publicist added, “Tomorrow [January 23] is X’s bday, hoping he drops it then.”
Stay tuned for more details as they become available.
(The original version of this article was published on January 20, 2018 and can be found below.)
Polarizing artist XXXTENTACION is currently on house arrest but evidently that hasn’t stopped him from moving forward with his music. On Saturday (January 20), the “Look At Me!” rapper alluded he was working on a collaborative project with Brooklyn’s Joey Bada$$ during one of his Instagram stories.
“xxxtentacion x joey badass,” he wrote in white text. “collaboration tape.”
Joey, who just dropped the surprise single “King To A God” on Friday (January 19), appeared to back up X’s announcement with an Instagram post of his own. The Pro Era MC’s post consisted of a screenshot from X’s Instagram story that read, “xxxtentacion x joey badass. collaboration Tape. LETSGOOOOO @xxxtentacion.”
Late Friday night (January 19), X shared a snippet of new music on Instagram but it’s unclear where the song will actually wind up. In another post from last month, the 19-year-old claimed he was putting out three albums in 2018.
Countless people took to Twitter to chime in on the possible Joey-X collaboration. From shock and anger to anticipation and excitement, the reactions were all over the place.
Check out some of them below.
A very stupid move on the part of this “Joey bad arse” fellow.
Joey Goodbooty slowly goes from the MF DOOM league to the Vanilla Ice. He changed his original flow to sound like a wack Fredro Star. He chenged his Native Tongues inpirated beats to radio friendly boom bap. He covers Prince intead of covering Q-Tip. Now it’s time to change a lil bit more cuz it’s all for the money. Fuck this guy.
No, he expanded his sound to appeal to a wider audience in the streaming era, to push himself into new markets as revenue sources from music sales dwindle. Translation: He smartened up, just like Nas after Illmatic.
Never heard of either of these lames but sounds like more bullshit to me
Oh yeah…and free my man booty B John!
It’s a lose-lose situation: XXXTentacion fans don’t want him to collab with old hasbeen and Joey’s oldheads don’t want him to collab with some mumble loser.
This is what hip hop used to be . Diverse hip hop artists collaborating to expand hip hop. However if this collab was done for money and not done out of friendship and respect then it is bad for hip hop
this is wrong on so many levels, its like Lil Yachty collaborating with Black Thought. SMH
No its not, you idiots have heard the one song from X and think thats all his music. X is an emo as rapper than can actually rap, but hes smart enough to know that thats not what pays the bills. Have you even seen the video for ‘Look at me?’ that song is actually clickbait that is followed by a songs about whats happening with blacks and cops. Has Yachty ever talked political? GTFOH with your bullshit!
Its simple, he does it, and I delete all Joey music on my hard drive! (2018 is not trash music having year)
Damn son #hardball
Wtf is this bullshit?? These nougats are like chalk and cheese. If Joey goes ahead with this shit and bends over for a few bucks then he a bitch ass nougat.
Im 100% sure nobody is losing any sleep over this disaster happen or never happens
XXX beats are on some real hiphop shit so i can see why the collab might happen
This is like MLK and fucking h i t l e r collabing together
Both of them destroyed by the zionist.
If the “Zionists” were half as effective as you claim Mossad would’ve done killed you already and the world would be better for it.
Pussy boy
Don’t do it bro.
People forget that Chance the Rapper did a whole project with Lil B. The fact that they worked with artists with way different styles didn’t affect their careers at all. I probably wouldn’t listen if this project got made, but it wouldn’t change my opinion of Joey either. Idk why people are getting so butt hurt over the possibility of a collaborative project.
Was it good?
I want to hear a big Freda and young thug collaboration that would be dope
I wonder how many of you have even heard an album from Xxxtentacion lol writing him off because of ‘Look At me’ SMDH
exactly. kid isn’t talentless just needs to actually rap more instead of that emo rap bullshit. and stop telling on tracks
I heard the album bum, wasted 40 mins of my life. If he made songs longer than 1:30 – 2:00 I would take him more seriously. He’d still be terrible because only like 2 songs off the album were decent. But as soon as you get into it it’s over.
Only thing torn here is my asshole
Listen mane you one of them queer typa fellas eh?
Yore, there was no chance to see a collab between Talib Kweli and YingYang Twinz… Unfortunately things change -_____________-
Talib did songs with Gucci and Waka, so you’re kinda behind on that.
Mah bad… ^^
Xxxtentacion is a BIGGER artist than Joey Trash@ss #Facts . FOH
Damn Joey, please say this is an early (and bad) April Fools’ joke. You’re a great rapper and artist, but working with this cornball, that thinks he’s BETTER than Pac cause Pac didnt do rock music? FOH… Please cancel this horrible idea yesterday
They deserve each other. The title should be ” The Sellout and The Talentless”
Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! This will give Joey the deserved exposure he needs! I’m rootin for you fella!
Joey about to sell out
X can handle the swag dancing. Joey will handle the lyrics….Hopefully
Damnnn..I love Joey but really? And I’m all for different types of artists collaborating but this loser? Even if he wasn’t garbage in a human form..his music is also trash in audio form. This is going to be a disaster.
That triple gay x dude actually stops the song like he’s about to kill these dudes, and comes back and spits a verse that’s as bad as lil pimp or Kodak black. Joey was spitting though, hard to believe he’d collab with a bum like this. Who’s he lining up next, rainbow homo tekashi.
Make a song longer than 1:30 and actually stop breaking partway through a verse.
This mixes like ice cream and ketchup
This is why Steez offed himself, he knew Joey would sell his soul and work with bullshit artists and women beating pieces of shit.
This Joey bad arse fellow and his kind have no place in our music industry