Do you know that Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$ co-wrote Put up Malone’s gigantic hit “Rockstar”? I simply discovered that out. Right here’s another bizarre stuff: A few weeks in the past, embattled New York mayor Eric Adams declared December 20 Joey Bada$$ Day, and Bada$$ will probably be an artist scholar in residence at Columbia College’s Academics School Gordon Institute this 12 months. If you happen to assume too exhausting about any of that stuff, you would possibly stroll round in a fog all day. Thankfully, Joey Bada$$ has some new music out, and also you don’t need to assume too exhausting about that.
The final Joey Bada$$ album was referred to as 2000, and it got here out in 2022. Final 12 months, Bada$$ launched “Passports & Suitcases” with KayCyy and “Vertino” with Conway The Machine. Yesterday, he dropped “The Ruler’s Again,” a robust piece of classicist New York head-slap music. Over a tough soul-sample beat from producer Conductor Williams, Joey talks his shit: “I stand tall on this rap factor like Yao Ming/ And received’t cease until the group sing once I’m topped king/ My aura scream, and my fashion ring/ This ain’t increase bap, n***a, this that boom-bow-bing.”
There’s one line on “The Ruler’s Again” that kicked off numerous dialogue on-line when the music got here out yesterday: “An excessive amount of West Coast dick-lickin’.” That’s an previous Jay-Z quote that may very well be learn as a shot at Kendrick Lamar. I don’t assume Joey Bada$$ would say one thing like that until he had some very purposeful music in retailer. Watch the Waqas Ghani-directed video under.
