Tyler, the Creator gave followers precisely what they needed for Christmas: a deeply unserious freestyle over Kendrick Lamar‘s “Hey Now.”
Posted on Christmas Day, a brand new music video on the “St. Chroma” hitmaker’s YouTube channel finds him spitting new bars over the Compton rapper’s gritty bass-heavy beat — which was produced by Mustard, Sounwave and Jack Antonoff — in numerous areas throughout Tyler’s hometown of Hawthorne, Calif.
“Oh my god, I’m actually that man/ Yeah b—h, I’m outdoors,” he raps in entrance of a brick wall earlier than switching locales to the hood of a white Ferarri parked in entrance of the seaside. “Laferrari popping on the 405/ 1 ticket 2 ticket 3 ticket 4 million/ Put that lil Maybach truck within the storage/ Lil bunny hop out, you seen me on the come out/ Pandemonium screaming like they introduced Pac out.”
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Tyler additionally shared the video on X, writing, “merry christmas. had enjoyable with it,” in response to a fan who’d tweeted in November, “I would like @tylerthecreator to freestyle on Hey Now so dangerous.”
That includes Dody6, “Hey Now” seems on Lamar’s new album GNX, which he surprise-dropped in November — lower than three months earlier than he’s set to headline the Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present in 2025. The monitor opened at No. 5 on the Billboard Sizzling 100, whereas the total set debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
The “See You Once more” rapper additionally dropped a brand new album this 12 months, with Chromakopia arriving in October and spending three weeks atop the Billboard 200. In his December Billboard cowl story, Tyler opened up in regards to the LP being his most private providing but, revealing, “placing some of these things on wax was quite a bit for me.”
“I’m an excellent extrovert, however I’m a really personal particular person with my life,” he mentioned, including of the album’s gothic cowl: “It’s so sincere that I believe I needed to put on a masks by myself face to get that s–t out.”
Watch Tyler, the Creator’s “Hey Now” freestyle above.
