Denzel Curry has dropped a high-octane single ‘SKED’ with fellow alt-rapper Kenny Mason, alongside an accompanying music video.
To this point this yr, the Florida rapper hasn’t dropped many singles. Earlier than ‘SKED’, he teamed up with Southern Hip-Hop legend Juicy J for ‘BLOOD ON MY NIKEZ’ and launched the ‘ICE COLD ZEL FREESTYLE’ with ICECOLDBISHOP again in July. He additionally dropped a semi-live EP with Spotify known as ‘Stay At The Electrical Woman’ final Could, on which he shared a canopy of Erykah Badu’s 2000 traditional ‘Didn’t Cha Know’.
Immediately (September 15), he put out ‘SKED’ and its artistic, comic-inspired music video. The brief David Wept and Jagger Corcione-produced monitor reveals off Curry’s exuberant confidence regardless of rapping about his paranoia from rising up in Carol Metropolis, Florida. Kenny Mason additionally reveals off his authority with intelligent gun wordplay over the bolshy instrumental. Within the video, the 28-year-old and the Atlantan rapper Mason have enjoyable dancing into the digital camera. Watch the video beneath.
The brand new single arrives after Curry carried out 4 sold-out reveals on the iconic Blue Observe Jazz Membership in New York Metropolis, the place Kenny Mason made a shock look at one to carry out their new collaboration.
Within the press launch, ‘SKED’ is alleged to “mark the start of a brand new chapter in Denzel Curry’s musical journey”, the place “he’s embracing spontaneity by sharing his music as it’s being created, slightly than holding onto songs till they launched later as half of a bigger conceptual physique of labor as he has carried out all through the majority of his profession up to now.”
In March 2022, the Floridian dropped his fifth album ‘Soften My Eyez See Your Future’, which NME gave 5 stars: “It’s onerous to revamp your sound with each challenge, however Denzel Curry is quick changing into the Renaissance man of Southern hip-hop, at all times 10 steps forward of the sport. For the fifth time – and otherwise than we would have anticipated – Denzel Curry has offered a priceless sense of self-discovery as he explores his numerous aspects.”
Earlier this yr, Denzel Curry collaborated with the sport Counter-Strike: International Offensive for “the ULTIMATE music package” – which included his 2015 sleeper hit ‘ULTIMATE’ in addition to cuts from ‘Soften My Eyez See Your Future’. Music kits are an in-game characteristic a participant should buy to vary the music in CS:GO, together with the songs heard within the Important Menu, Spherical Begin and Finish, and Dying Digital camera.
Final yr, his aforementioned fifth album ranked quantity 22 on NME’s 50 finest albums record, saying: “Rapping over shimmering pianos and heat jazz samples, Denzel Curry was in full management as he took listeners by way of his most experimental album but… [It’s] a crowning achievement, even for an artist who has already made a profession out of defying expectations.”
Elsewhere, Mason dropped a collection of EPs this yr — ‘pr3’, ‘3’, and ‘6’ – following on from the highly-acclaimed success of his ‘Ruffs’ mixtape final yr.
