After alleging that hip-hop gross sales have been down by 40 % in 2023, rapper Juicy J has ventured into jazz.
On Tuesday (Aug. 27), the 49-year-old Three 6 Mafia founding member launched his new album Ravenite Social Membership, which options him performing spoken word-styled verses over compositions from JR Swift and Robert Glasper.
To accompany his shock album, Juicy J dropped a music video for single “To You,” that includes Glasper and vocalist Emi Seacrest, which sees the Memphis native performing in a jazz membership earlier than hitting a road nook with a backing band. The music additionally serves as a tribute to the late Three 6 Mafia member Gangsta Boo, who died from an unintentional overdose final January.
“To You” additionally recounts Juicy J’s final dialog with Gangsta Boo, the place he raps, “Final time I seen you, you was excessive, it was getting dangerous/You may’ve even cracked a joke, however I could not snigger/Did not wanna converse on it, ‘trigger all of us grown/Had a sense you finna get referred to as house.”
Juicy J spoke on his former groupmate’s passing on SiriusXM radio program Sway’s Universe final 12 months, the place he predicted that in their final assembly that Gangsta Boo would quickly die.
“I don’t know the place that got here from, however I used to be simply taking a look at her like…’trigger I knew she’d been doing it for a very long time, so I used to be like, ‘Rattling, man. You continue to doing cocaine?'” he stated across the 13:30-minute mark of the video beneath.
He continued, “However I hadn’t seen Boo in a very long time and so, you realize, she a grown girl so I wasn’t attempting to be all up in her enterprise…I want I might’ve stated one thing. I’m like, ‘Fuck.'”
Additionally featured on Ravenite Social Membership is Cordae on the observe “Suicide Doorways.”
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