Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J have dropped a new single titled “Back Seat” featuring Project Pat. The song is off an album, a surprising collaboration by both artists. The album’s name has not yet been revealed, but the duo have released a video for their new single Back Seat. The video is highly animated, with […]
Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J ended 2021 by teasing their upcoming joint album, which remains untitled. It will be their second joint release after 2016’s TGOD Mafia: Rude Awakening, with producer TM88. Now the duo have dropped their latest single “Backseat,” which also arrived with an electric video. The song features an appearance from Project Pat, and for the video, the trio’s energy matches the high-octane spirit of the song.
Along with the new video, Juicy J and Wiz Khalifa announced that their the album will arrive at some point in February. It also follows the video for “Pop The Trunk,” the album’s first single.
Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J’s upcoming joint album will arrive after Wiz teamed up with producers Cardo and Sledgren for their project Wiz Got Wings, which delivered 14 songs with features from Chevy Woods, Larry June, and more. Juicy J’s last release came last year when he dropped a deluxe version of his 2020 album The Hustle Continues, which presented 25 songs and guest appearances from Pooh Shiesty, Lil Baby, 2 Chainz, Jay Rock, Key Glock, Rico Nasty, and many more.
You can watch the video for “Backseat” above.
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Juicy J and Wiz Khalifa’s friendship goes back more than a decade, when Juicy appeared on a remix of Wiz’s 2010 breakout hit “Black & Yellow.” Wiz returned the favor by appearing on “Stoners Night (Part II),” from Juicy’s mixtape Blue Dream & Lean. Since then, the duo has worked together time and time again, and nearly 12 years later, they’re getting ready to deliver a joint album. The currently untitled project is set to arrive in early 2022, according to Complex, and while the two remain tight-lipped about details surrounding the project, they have dropped one of its singles.
The song is called “Pop The Trunk,” a sinister track that’s paired with a music video, which follows the pair as they somehow convince strangers to give them their souls.
The forthcoming album won’t be their first joint effort. Back in 2016, they teamed up with producer TM88 as the TGOD Mafia collective for TGOD Mafia: Rude Awakening, which boasted 16 songs, plus a lone feature from Project Pat. “Pop The Trunk” arrives after Juicy was involved in a fight during Three 6 Mafia’s Verzuz battle against Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. As for Wiz, he recently dropped the single “Million Dollar Moment” earlier this year.
You can listen to “Pop The Trunk” in the video above.
Later this week, Three 6 Mafia will go up against Bone Thugs-N-Harmony for another battle of Verzuz. Before that happens, Juicy J, who is one of two remaining members in the group, along with DJ Paul, spoke with Nas and radio personality Minya “Miss Info” about the rise and fall of the group. On the Spotify podcast The Bridge: 50 Years of Hip Hop, Juicy J admitted that “drugs really broke Three 6 Mafia up.” When asked about was specific drugs caused the group’s end, Juicy J replied, “the wildest drugs.”
“From heroin to meth to cocaine, all kinds of pills,” he continued. “A lot of drugs were consumed during the times we were together. When everybody was sober and sh*t, everybody’s on the same page But when cocaine’s involved, things change. But I’m not pointing a figure at nobody.” Juicy J added that he “can’t think of nothing else” that would’ve caused the group to break up and said it was why “people wasn’t showing up in the studio… business was crazy, everything’s folding… it was the drugs.”
Juicy J recalled a story involving Lord Infamous, DJ Paul’s late brother, who was a part of the group until 2005. “I had to bust up in Lord Infamous room before and I was almost in tears,” he said. “I thought the n**** was dead at first. So I had to go get the keys, because he wouldn’t answer the phone. I was banging on his door. So I had to bust up in his room and had to pretty much beat him [with a pillow] to wake him up.”
You can listen to the full episode of Spotify’s The Bridge: 50 Years of Hip Hop podcast here.
The world waited nearly five years for Isaiah Rashad to make his return to the music world and finally, at the beginning of August, he did just that. The TDE rapper touched down with his second album The House Is Burning, and it was met with rave reviews from fans. Guest appearances from Lil Uzi Vert, Jay Rock, SZA, 6lack, Smino, and more also stood out on Rashad’s latest body of work. Nearly four months after he released it, Rashad returns with its deluxe version simply because the “homies begged.”
The new version adds four songs to the project’s original 16 tracks. It finds Rashad sticking to his Tennessee roots by sharing a remix of “RIP Young” with Juicy J and Project and heading to Atlanta for “Deep Blue” with Young Nudy and “Geordan Favors” with Deante’ Hitchcock. Lastly, the TDE rapper recruits West coast singer Umi for the deluxe edition’s closer, “Donuts.”
Prior to sharing the deluxe version of The House Is Burning, Rashad released videos for “THIB,” “Chad” with YGTUT,” and “From The Garden” with Lil Uzi. He also stopped by A COLORS Show to deliver a vivid performance of “HB2U.”
The House Is Burning (Homies Begged) is out now via TDE/Warner. Get it here.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
