Hit-Boy has welcomed his father home from prison with a new collaborative video which coincides with their recent track, “Grindin’ My Whole Life Pt. 2.”
The video, featuring the Grammy Award-winning musician and his father Big Hit (real name Chauncey Hollis Sr.), was released on Thursday (May 11).
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The video finds both men standing side-by-side while rapping about their respective paths in life and honoring the father-son bond that they share.
“No more tears in silence, no strugglin’, no strivin’/ No more police sirens/ You was addicted to runnin’ the streets and I was addicted to beats/ I played for the Pony’s in Pasadena and you wasn’t there to lace up my cleats,” Hit-Boy raps over the sample-heavy track.
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Big Hit adds: “I been grindin’ my whole life, I had to go and get it/ You know I’m with it, from the streets to the Pen, I’m with the business/ I’m the new black Super-Hero, fuck crime/ I’m goin’ legal/Flood the system’s so lethal, Pharaoh, release my people.”
Check out the video for “Grindin’ My Whole Life Pt. 2” below:
“Grindin’ My Whole Life Pt. 2” is a follow-up to 2014’s “Grindin’ My Whole Life” featuring HS87, taken from Hit’s We the Plug compilation album.
The collaboration between Hit Boy and Big Hit is the first since his father was released from prison earlier this month. Back in 2014, he was arrested in Illinois during a traffic stop, when it was revealed that he had an outstanding warrant in California.
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The warrant stemmed from a hit-and-run accident in Los Angeles which left several people seriously injured, according to Patch. Ultimately, the trial court sentenced Big Hit to twelve years and four months in the state prison.
As soon as Big Hit became a free man, he hit the studio with his son to celebrate. “Big Hit Free. knocked down 9 years and came straight to the stu,” Hit-Boy wrote on Instagram earlier this month.
In other Hit-Boy news, the King’s Disease producer recently shared a preview of an AI track that hears him and Kanye West reunite — sort of.
Dropping the song on Instagram last month, it hears Ye rapping Hit-Boy’s hook on his Surf or Drown album cut “2 Certified.”
“I’ma need all the amenities/ You made a lil’ pape, I went at their neck and made history/ Dumbin’ out on my own beats/ Hot like I threw ’em in grease/ The one, not the two or the three/ I’m watchin’ the numbers increase,” he spits over the drill-flavored beat.
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As the West Coast hitmaker revealed in his caption, though, the vocals weren’t actually recorded by Kanye, but were generated by AI (artificial intelligence) voice technology.
“AI is getting insane. @kanyewest rapping 2 certified sounds too crzy,” Hit-Boy wrote alongside an exploding head emoji.
“That shit is wild!” he can be heard saying in the video as other people in his studio also react with astonishment.
