Giggs has launched his first single of the yr ‘Mandem’ from his upcoming sixth album ‘Zero Tolerance’, that includes Diddy. Try the video beneath.
The ‘Peckham Landlord’ hasn’t put out a lot solo music since his 2020 second mixtape ‘Now Or By no means’, which featured Meek Mill, Ray BLK and Ghetts, however final yr hopped on Aitch’s ‘Simply Coz’ and Tion Wayne’s ‘Undergo’.
As we speak (August 4), Giggs dropped ‘Mandem’ and its accompanying music video. The Louis Aura-produced monitor harks again to his signature “highway rap” model made common by his breakthrough hits ‘Look What The Cat Dragged In’ and ‘Hustle On’, however with a contemporary lure revamp. The tune even interpolates the Hollaman’s stream on ‘Lock Doh’: “Up hill’ed it / Robust world, however we levelled up / Upscaled it / Expelled him / That yout’s kinda filled with bullshit / And I smelled it.”
Within the Buck and Myles Whittingham-directed video, you’ll be able to see Giggs standing tall with varied ethnic teams, all of which symbolize the “mandem” he’s befriended in life.
The monitor sees Diddy ad-libbing over Giggs’ verses, main a chant of “Black king gods” in the direction of the tip of the monitor. Afterwards, he compares the 40-year-old to himself: “You want me, longevity n**** / We ain’t right here to play with y’all motherfuckers, we’re Black king gods.”
Giggs has additionally introduced his sixth studio album ‘Zero Tolerance’, which shall be launched on August 14 by way of No BS Music Restricted / Island Data. You’ll be able to pre-save and pre-order the album right here.
‘Mandem’ was launched on the fifteenth anniversary of Giggs’ debut album ‘Stroll in da Park’, launched on August 4, 2008. Regardless of not being on the file, his debut single and now London anthem ‘Talkin Da Hardest’ propelled the undertaking to excessive acclaim and is taken into account some of the influential albums in UK rap.
In 2022, Giggs dropped the trap-influenced ‘Da Most’ and thought-provoking monitor ‘Time’. The identical yr, Jay-Z name-dropped him on DJ Khaled‘s Grammy Award-winning rap blockbuster ‘God Did’.
In April final yr, he dropped the music video for ‘Simply Coz’ with Aitch. In an announcement, the latter artist defined: “We had a superb giggle, it was an honour to work with the massive man. Giggs taught me a whole lot of stuff; he’s my man for all times.”
