Ghostface Killah Shares Surprise Fact About Kendrick Lamar Collab
Ghostface Killah has shared a surprising tidbit about his collaboration with Kendrick Lamar, “Purple Hearts.”
In an job interview with Peter Rosenberg and Cipha Appears on the radio hosts’ Juan Epstein podcast, the Wu-Tang Clan legend was requested which rappers, if any, would make him “tighten up” in the studio since of to their lyrical prowess.
Ghostface answered by naming veterans like JAY-Z and The LOX, as nicely as “new cats” such as Drake and Kendrick, which led to him speaking about his collaboration with the Compton kingpin.
“They can in fact, in fact rhyme. That is why when I did the history with Kendrick, it was like, ‘Okay’… I sat with it and was like — I sent him two verses. I despatched him a ‘just in case’ a particular person. Like, ‘N-gga, if that do not go, this 1 [will],’” he revealed.
When Rosenberg remarked that him publishing a number of verses shows how “honored” he was to function with Kendrick, Very Toney replied: “Oh yeah, unquestionably! He set his phone in and it was like, ‘Yo, okay. This is 1 of them names.’ I ain’t just take him evenly for the cause that his wordplay, his model, y’know what I indicate? Now, I just gotta do what I sense.”
“Purple Hearts” appears on K. Dot’s 2022 album Mr. Morale & The Large Steppers and also solutions vocals from Summertime Walker.
Massive @GhostfaceKillah speaking on @kendricklamar and @Drake on todays Juan Ep pic.twitter.com/qm4yIfmj92
— Peter Rosenberg (@Rosenbergradio) Could 14, 2024
Ghostface Killah is modern off the release of his individual new album Established the Tone.
The 12th entry in his adorned solo catalog, the challenge characteristics appearances from a slew of substantial names like Nas, Kanye West, Process Guy, Raekwon, Excess fat Joe, Busta Rhymes, Jim Jones, Remy Ma and Sheek Louch.
“Thank you to everybody who assisted put this venture alongside one another and each proficient artist that jump in the hearth with me !!” Tony Starks wrote on Instagram shortly ideal just before the album arrived prior Friday (May probably 10) by way of Nas’ Mass Attraction Documents.
In addition to the aforementioned Kendrick Lamar collaboration, the Staten Island native has stayed rather rapid paced in existing numerous years with visitor verses on songs with Westside Gunn, Dave East, Russ, Statik Selektah and NEMS.
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Ghostface has also been teasing Supreme Clientele 2 — the extremely lengthy-awaited sequel to his 2000 opus — and said it would be govt manufactured by Kanye West and Mike Dean.
“SUPREME CLIENTELE 2 IS Govt Developed BY: KANYE WEST, MIKE DEAN & PRODUCERPLUGUNI.COM. Release Date: FEB 2022,” he announced in the course of a Q&A with admirers on Reddit back once again in 2021.
That day of course arrived and went without having the have to have of the album, and it is unclear if the Kanye attribute on Set the Tone is from the sessions for Supreme Clientele 2.
The 53-12 months-prior also has a memoir that strike cabinets on Tuesday (Could 14). Titled Rise of a Killah, the e-book is described as a “visual record and a genuine-come to feel narrative of a performer’s existence.”
