Latto and Luh Tyler are bringing the Christmas vibes as they come together for their first collaboration, “The Grinch Freestyle.”
Released on Friday (December 15), the song finds Latto comparing a grumpy man to the famed Dr. Seuss character as someone with full Grinch makeup rides around on a bike in the accompanying video.
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“N-gga callin’ like, ‘Come home’ – why you actin’ like the Grinch?” she raps on the hook. “Boy, you better watch your tone ‘fore I show you how it get!”
The track comes about six months after the pair were spotted in the studio together, which may have been the session during which this track took shape.
While the collab with rising star Luh Tyler is in the bag, Latto has her sights set on some more big collaborations as well.
Last month, the 777 rapper was asked about who she’d love to team up with from a business as well as music perspective, and she told Forbes that Rihanna fits the bill perfectly on both fronts.
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“Business, RiRi. RiRi. I just feel like she touched our generation in a whole different way,” Latto explained. “I feel like women like me who might have a little motion going on, she showed us that it’s possible for us to take it a whole different level.
“So definitely RiRi. Music and business. What’s up, RiRi? Call me girl. I did a song with Mariah Carey, I did a song with Christina Aguilera, I did a song with Lil Wayne. It’s so limitless, I feel like anything could happen.”
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And at the very least, she knows she’s already on RiRi’s radar as Latto revealed in October that she’d joined the team as an official Savage x Fenty ambassador.
The former reality star also has another rap collaborator she’s looking to check off her bucket list.
The “Big Energy” rapper spoke to XXL recently, and identified André 3000 as her dream collaboration – revealing she already has the perfect song in mind.
“I want to bring André 3000 out of retirement. I got a song for André right now that will go so fuckin’ crazy,” she said of the OutKast legend. “And I’m really just trying to pull all strings, so hopefully, this can reach André somehow. I want André on my album.”
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She continued: “Anything is possible for me. I think people will be having a whole different respect when my name is brought up like other artists, like the OGs… I got a song with Childish Gambino. J. Cole fuck with me.
“I be getting DMs from all types of people where I be like, Oh, damn. But I think they know that, like how I was saying earlier, l’m really passionate about this shit. They know I’m not like play-play about music. They know I’m really here to stay.”
