King Los has proven himself to be an elite lyricist time and time again, but he’s now turned back the clock and done it blog-era style.
On Monday (November 20), the Baltimore native dropped a video of him spitting some bars over Rick Ross and Meek Mill’s “Shaq & Kobe” instrumental, adding some seasoning of his own to the already buzzing track.
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“When God walked on water, it’s like witnessin’ my flow/ My name was written in gold and depicted in the scrolls/ As the one the ancestors predicted would be chose…/ to Master P and push it, no limit with this glow,” he raps on the opening verse of his rendition of the song.
Check out the former Bad Boy Records rapper give the beat a second life as he strolls down the Hollywood Walk of Fame below:
MCs reimagining the vocals on tracks published by their peers has been a longstanding tradition in Hip Hop that offers fans an alternate perspective.
Last month, Jay Rock took an early-2000s JAY-Z track and fired it into the 2020s with a powerful new freestyle during an appearance on Justin Credible’s Power 106 show. The TDE rap titan freestyled over “The Watcher 2,” a 2002 Jigga track produced by Dr. Dre and Scott Storch.
“N-ggas saying they street, never bleed the concrete/ Acting like the stress never got to Ghandi,” Jay Rock rapped. “What if Martin Luther King had him a tommy? Malcom X said, ‘Fuck it,’ hit him a side street/ Bent him a couple corners and got him a side piece/ Then sat up in a penthouse something like five weeks/ And feds still tapping the phone?/ Once again, it’s on.”
Jay Rock began going public with promises of a new album — his first since 2018’s Redemption — this past summer. He told Bootleg Kev that “the new album is great … [I]t’s just about trying to make good quality music. Like I said, I’m tryna do an album like my last one where you ain’t gotta skip shit. No skips.”
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TDE founder Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith first shared news of a new project by the Black Hippy MC several months prior. In March 2023, he revealed the label’s release lineup for the year ahead, naming every artist he expects to drop a new project.
“Reason , rayvaughn , doechii , Q , jay rock , zac and a compilation,” he wrote. “if everybody do their part … when they turn them in I will release em ..”
