Jay Rock Recruits Ab-Soul For New Single ‘Blowfly’
The song was produced by TDE in-house producer Kal Banx.
Jay Rock has released a brand-new track called “Blowfly.” A full TDE affair, the song was produced by in-house producer Kal Banx and features fellow TDE rapper Ab-Soul.
A poignant track, Jay Rock effortlessly paints a picture of Watts life while Ab-Soul punches in with the hook giving the track an infectious head nodding element. The song’s title is borrowed from the moniker of infamous rapper and performer, Blowfly, made famous by actor Clarence Reid.
Jay Rock has been consistently dropping offerings including the recently released freestyle, “Ambition,” “Eastside” and “Too Fast (Pull Over)”—the latter of which features Latto and Anderson .Paak and is currently warming up radio airwaves across the country.
The new offerings come five years after Redemption, the 2018 album that confirmed Jay Rock’s status as one of the sharpest observers and most uncompromising storytellers to emerge from California in his generation. Songs from that album earned him three of his four Grammy nominations: Best Rap Song for both “WIN” and his Kendrick Lamar, Future, and James Blake collaboration “King’s Dead,” which took home the trophy in the Best Rap Performance category and has garnered over 2.5 billion global streams and counting. “King’s Dead” was also featured on Black Panther: The Album, the widely acclaimed soundtrack to the 2018 box office hit Black Panther.
Prior to 2018, Rock’s status was already unquestionable in the West. More than a decade before then, he signed a major label deal and scored a hit with the Lil Wayne and will.i.am-assisted “All My Life (In the Ghetto).” He then landed on XXL’s coveted Freshman cover and helped spearhead TDE’s takeover of the hip-hop world. His first two albums, 2011’s Follow Me Home and 2015’s 90059, each rank among the grittiest, most acclaimed street rap albums of the century so far.
