Ski Mask the Slump God and DJ Scheme go way back. The two artists have been working together since the 2010s, and they even had plans to release a collab album at one point. Sadly, there was seemingly a falling out between the two artists. They have not worked on a song together for a while, and DJ Scheme broke his silence as to why on December 3. The producer hopped on Twitter and alluded to Ski Mask the Slump God being someone he no longer wants to hear from.
It seems as though DJ Scheme broke his silence as a means of frustration with Ski Mask the Slump God. He claimed that people will “blame” everybody for their personal problems but themselves, and stated that he never wants to hear Ski Mask’s name again. The most alarming message, however, pertained to Ski Mask allegedly “destroying” himself. “I refuse to watch someone I love destroy themselves,” DJ Scheme wrote. “That’s the last thing I’ma say.” Except, it wasn’t. Ski Mask the Slump God trolled the the producer for bringing their personal issues into the public eye.
“Going to social media like a girl about homeboy beef,” Ski Mask wrote in a quote tweet. “You hilarious, clout up misses.” DJ Scheme fired back in the replies, urging the rapper to “tell them the truth” about the situation. During a 2024 interview with XXL, Ski Mask the Slump God admitted to going through various personal struggles in the lead up to his latest album. “I was just going through a lot of real-life sh*t, my friend,” he explained. “Other than my friends passing away and sht like that, dealing with that. My living situation, figuring out where I wanted to live.”
DJ Scheme was similarly incensed over the handling of Juice WRLD’s new album. Juice was a friend of both Scheme and Ski Mask’s, but the producer felt Benny Blanco botched the rollout for Juice’s fifth and final album. “How the hell u help put the album together and don’t post it once,” Scheme wrote. “Benny Shouldn’t Have Touched it.” Hopefully Ski Mask and DJ Scheme are able to settle their differences behind closed doors.
Chicago-based visionary Cole Bennett started out shooting for up-and-coming teens and twenty-something blog favorites, but in the past five years, he has become one of rap’s foremost music video directors, working with top names like Eminem, J. Cole, Lil Durk, and more. He’s even shot for actor Jack Black, delivering a colorful video for Black’s Super Mario Bros. Movie crowd-pleaser, “Peaches.”
“I was a very visual person, but I never knew that I loved music videos,” Bennett said in a 2021 XXL interview. “I always had this idea since I was super young of what it would look like if I made a music video.” For nearly a decade, Bennett has been bringing these ideas to life to the praise of the artists he works with and his growing fan base.
With that being said, we decided to scour Bennett’s Lyrical Lemonade page for his best work. Here are the 10 best Cole Bennett-directed music videos.
Honorable Mention: JID & J. Cole — “Off Deez”
Okay, it’s a pretty basic concept with workmanlike execution, but it might be the best song Bennett’s ever done a video for. JID and J. Cole are left turns for Cole Bennett, if you take in the entirety of his filmography, so it was pretty meaningful that the Dreamville cohorts teamed up with him on this standout from JID’s DiCaprio 2. It’d be nice to see them do it again.
10. Ski Mask The Slump God — “Catch Me Outside”
An early standout from both Bennett and Ski Mask The Slump God, “Catch Me Outside” perfectly illustrates the possibilities of a limited budget when you’ve got unlimited imagination. Awash with eye-popping visual effects, “Catch Me Outside” offers a prime example of Cole’s early style; it’s raw, but flashes of his future brilliance shine throughout. Many of the techniques Bennett used here eventually became hallmarks of his style, and with polish, set off the concepts of his future videos with Cordae and Eminem.
9. Central Cee — “Doja”
As “Doja” is one of Bennett’s more recent videos, its simplicity might seem out of place in a list featuring so many brain-bending, colorful visuals. But it also marks Bennett’s transition from colorful collaborator to kingmaker; Central Cee is a star stateside after working with Bennett, making the most of essentially an indie budget to secure the coveted director’s services and show he belongs on the biggest stage.
8. Jack Harlow — “What’s Poppin”
While the visuals are pretty tame for a Cole Bennett production, Harlow’s “What’s Poppin” video is still representative of the elements that have made Bennett’s videos so eye-catching and amusing. Even the low-key imagery mirrors Jack’s tongue-in-cheek humor, highlighting and elevating it with some juxtaposed elements as bottle service and satin sheets at a late-night diner and a woman “smoking” a french fry like a cigarette. It’s also impossible to discount what the video did for Harlow’s career, taking him from an indie unknown to a potential chart-topper with 170 million views.
7. Drake — “Another Late Night” Feat. Lil Yachty
Say what you want about Drake, but “Another Late Night,” at least visually, has been the height of his last couple of rough years. Drake and Yachty have great chemistry, and despite the relatively straightforward treatment, the video manages to be eye-catching and stand out from the rest of Drake’s admittedly wonky catalog.
6. Lil Durk — “Kanye Krazy”
Bennett’s referential style comes to a head in Durk’s “Kanye Krazy” video. Pulling from infamous clips from the titular auteur’s oeuvre and public outbursts, Durk reimagines the videos for “Runaway,” “Bound 2,” and “I Love It” — specifically, the moments in which Kanye’s mental illness seems to have gotten the better of him, for better or worse. This was just after Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later” had put Durk back on the national map, so to speak, so the cheeky visuals helped aid in lending mainstream audiences a better sense of Durk’s personality outside his harrowing drill stories.
5. BabyTron — “100 Bars”
BabyTron, like Central Cee’s “Doja,” is a more recent addition to Bennett’s filmography, albeit one with a much higher concept. It’s executed deliriously well, with a new BabyTron outfit/persona for each of the titular “100 Bars” and seamless transitions between each. It’s a format that Bennett would return to with Eminem’s “Tobey,” but it’s impressive that the Detroit and Chicago natives were able to make this work without the benefit of a huge star (and the accompanying budget). BabyTron, for all the lethargy of his flow on the song, also appears to be having a ball, as does comedian Andy Milonakis in his cameo role.
4. Eminem — “Godzilla”
“Godzilla” is the moment Cole Bennett “made it,” in the sense that he began working with established megastars like Eminem in addition to the SoundCloud standouts in his own DIY cohort. Fittingly, the increased budget came along with some stunning visual effects to spice up the flow of the video’s narrative while enhancing Bennett’s trademark surrealism. Em gets punched in the face by Mike Tyson, breathes fire, vomits Legos, and performs surgery alongside longtime collaborator Dr. Dre. And speaking of collaborators, “Godzilla” is a hallmark moment for Marshall too; it’s the first time he really embraced the SoundCloud rappers he’d formerly spent huge segments of his albums belittling.
3. Polo G — “My All”
Of all Cole Bennett’s most frequent collaborators, he most frequently turns in his best work with hometown artists like Juice WRLD and Polo G. In the video for “My All,” the Chi-Town natives tone down the usual comedic elements of Cole’s catalog in favor of something more emotionally resonant. It looks simple, but it’s not; a seated Polo performs the lyrics as a montage of memories both celebratory and traumatic, scroll behind him. The fourth wall break at the end is a fun surprise.
2. Cordae & Juice WRLD — “Doomsday”
My personal favorite out of the videos presented here, “Doomsday” takes a simple concept and adds stupendous visual flair with the aid of facial overlay technology. This is how you pay homage to departed artists; Cordae puts on a clinic as both himself and his late friend Juice WRLD, while Cole puts deepfake algos to an actual artistic use that doesn’t require stealing the work of real artists.
1. Juice WRLD — “Lucid Dreams”
The video that put Bennett on my personal radar, “Lucid Dreams” is far from his most stunning. But it’s hard to argue with a billion views; “Lucid Dreams” is the song that made Juice a star, it’s still his biggest song to date, and the video displays Cole’s gift for dreamlike visuals, which also fits the theme of the song.
Ryan Garcia has managed to make himself incredibly unlikeable in 2024. The boxer has bad outrageous assertions, and tested positive for PEDs before title matches. He somehow managed to combine these two pastimes on June 20. Garcia was suspended from boxing for one year following his second positive PED test. In response, Garcia inexplicably claimed that Drake had XXXTentacion killed. There isn’t more context. The tweet literally reads: “F*ck it Drake killed X.” This made a lot of people mad, and Ski Mask the Slump God was one of them.
Ski Mask the Slump God did not humor Garcia’s claims. Instead, he chastised the boxer and anybody who believed him. “Whoever believe this stupid sh*t,” he tweeted. “Too deep in the YouTube conspiracy rabbit hole. “Go outside touch grass my n**ga.” Ski Mask is known for his outrageous and oftentimes silly rap persona, but he doesn’t play when it comes to XXXTentacion. The rapper was close with X during his lifetime, and they collaborated on multiple songs together. During a Rolling Loud concert in 2022, Ski Mask paid tribute to his friend by posting a message on the background screen. “I wish I told you how much you really meant to me more often,” Ski Mask wrote. “Out of everyone you knew my pride brings me down.”
Things weren’t always friendly between the two rappers, though. Ski Mask the Slump God and X had a falling out in 2017, when the latter refused to give Ski Mask a feature on his album. “My response to the request for the song by Ski is no,” X wrote on Instagram. “I am going to destroy all of these rappers.” Sources close to Ski Mask the Slump God claim they squashed the beef before X died. “What most people don’t know is that they squashed that old thing a long time [ago],” they told Urban Islandz. “They were like brothers again, they both came up in the same hood and went through a lot of sh*t together.”
Ski Mask has made a point of keeping XXXTentacion’s legacy alive. The rapper included X on the song “Jah’s Interlude” from his new album, 11th Dimension. The song is a reworked version of X’s “Hope (Freestyle)” without an instrumental.
Florida rapper Ski Mask The Slump God has announced the dates for his 11th Dimension Tour supporting his new album of the same name. His openers on the tour will be fellow Floridians DJ Scheme and Danny Towers, while he will also be joined by emerging stars Hardrock and Molly Santana on North American dates.
Tickets will be available beginning Friday, June 14, at 10 AM local time at LiveNation.com. Pre-sale tickets are available now. See below for dates.
Ski Mask The Slump God 2024 Tour Dates
06/15 – Chicago, IL – Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash^
07/05 – Ebreichsdorf, Austria – Rolling Loud Austria^
07/09 – Prague, Czech Republic – Lucerna Music Bar*
07/10 – Budapest, Hungary – Akvarium
07/12 – Munich, Germany – Tonhalle*
07/15 – Krakow, Poland – Studio*
07/17 – Vilnius, Lithuania – Lukiskes 2.0
07/19 – Riga, Latvia – Positivus Festival*
07/25 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
07/26 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
07/28 – Montreal, QC – MTELUS
07/29 – Toronto, ON – HISTORY
07/31 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
08/01 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
08/04 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore
08/06 – Denver, CO @ Summit
08/09 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
08/11 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
08/12 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
08/14 – San Francisco, CA @ The Midway
08/15 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
08/16 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
08/19 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
08/20 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
08/21 – Austin, TX @ Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater
08/23 – New Orleans, LA @ The Fillmore
08/25 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy
08/28 – Miami, FL @ The Fillmore
09/05 – Glasgow, United Kingdom @ SWG3 Galvanizers
09/06 – Dublin, Ireland @ 3Olympia Theatre
09/07 – Birmingham, United Kingdom @ O2 Institute
09/09 – Manchester, United Kingdom @ O2 Ritz
09/11 – London, United Kingdom @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
09/13 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg Max
09/14 – Cologne, Germany @ Hype Festival*
09/15 – Paris, France @ Le Bataclan
09/17 – Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix
09/19 – Milan, Italy @ Fabrique*
09/21 – Zurich, Switzerland @ Komplex 457
09/22 – Berlin, Germany @ Astra*
09/23 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega
09/24 – Hamburg, Germany @ Grosse Freiheit 36*
11/07 – Auckland, New Zealand @ Spark Arena
11/09 – Melbourne, Australia @ Festival Hall
11/10 – Brisbane, Australia @ Fortitude Music Hall
11/12 – Sydney, Australia @ Enmore Theatre
11/14 – Perth, Australia @ Metro City
^ Festival Date
11th Dimension is out now via Victor Victor Worldwide/Republic Records
Ski Mask The Slump God is one of hip-hop’s weirdos, but in the best way possible. Over the years, fans have come to love the cooky personality that he exudes, as well as his creativity and adaptability. So, after dropping STOKELEY in 2018, a lot of people were saddened as he took quite the long absence. Sure, there was the Sin City The Mixtape in 2021, but we think we can speak for quite a few out there when we say that we were hoping for an album. Well today that all changes, as Ski Mask The Slump God has just come through with 11th Dimension. This is his official sophomore studio album, and it features a nice collection of high-end talent.
Those include Future, ATL Jacob, XXXTENTACION, Juice WRLD, Skillibeng, The-Dream, and Corbin. Leading up to its release, Ski Mask put out a tandem of singles, the rage inspired “Shibuya”, and the rock/trap combo that is “Headrush”. In typical fashion, a majority of the tracks are short and to the point, and include some hilarious bars, along with the speedy flows. However, there are a few wildcards like “WDYM,” which features a watery and tropical vibe and sees Ski get introspective. The-Dream (surprisingly) joins him on the beautifully sung chorus as well. Some fans are saying that 11th Dimension is not living up to the hype after such a long wait. But you have to remember Ski was dealing with the losses of his closest friends (XXX and Juice). He has not been shy about much it has affected him, so him simply returning is rewarding.
It’s about time. Ski Mask the Slump God was part of the Soundcloud generation that broke out in the 2010s. He worked closely with other Florida rappers like XXXTentacion and Denzel Curry, while at the same time carving out his own eccentric lane. His debut album, Stokeley, was a testament to this. The thing is, Stokeley came out in 2018. Fans have waited six years to hear new Ski Mask music. Thankfully, the wait is over. The sophomore album, 11th Dimension, is almost here.
Ski Mask the Slump God dropped an album teaser on June 1. The teaser opens on complete darkness, while an elderly voice asks the rapper where he’s been. Then there’s a hard cut to his face in close up, which is shrouded in darkness. The elderly voice continues to question Ski Mask’s absence. “They are asking where you are,” the voice states. “Asking where you have been.” The rapper then turns his head up, showing that half of his face is scarred. “Said I’m fighting my demons,” he says, before giving us a glimpse of a verse from the album.
The most unexpected part of the teaser, however, comes at the tail end. The camera zooms out to show Ski Mask the Slump God sitting on the floor of an empty white room. He can be seen wearing white angel wings, and his arms are tied. Hard cut to the release date, which is June 7. This is a thrilling development for an album that was first announced in 2021. Ski Mask revealed the album title, 11th Dimension, a year later, and there have been two singles released thus far. “Shibuya” dropped in March, and “Headrush” in May.
Ski Mask the Slump God has kept his inspiration behind a secret, but he did tease a dream list of collabs for 11th Dimension back in 2021. “I want to try and have Tyler, the Creator on it,” he told XXL. “I want to try and have Don Toliver, try and have Dominic Fike. He’s somebody I’ve always wanted to work with… I want to try and work with Post [Malone] at least.” There hasn’t been an official tracklist released, so it’s unclear whether Ski Mask was able to secure any of these features for the finished product.
Ski Mask The Slump God is undoubtedly one of the industry’s most entertaining acts going today. The Broward County, Florida native’s goofy, and sometimes unconventional approach, are what define his style. He loves to color outside the lines, make references to anime, and sometimes lay down some of the wildest bars you will ever hear. This weekend, Ski Mask is back to provide some of that insanity in the form of a new single “Headrush.”
It appears to be the second single for his long-awaited sophomore album11th Dimension. Fans got their first taste of its lead offering “Shibuya” in the latter half of March, which was a solid release as well. According to Genius, Ski Mask has been messing around with the album’s tracklist extensively over the last year and a half or so. “OOGA BOOGA!” was supposedly going to make the cut, but it was nixed and now remains to be a loosie.
On top of what will make the final product, the release date is also up in the air. There was some speculation that Ski Mask would drop the album by his birthday (April 18), but that obviously did not come to fruition. Now, the rumor is that it will be out before the end of June. We can only hope and pray at this point, but for now we are thoroughly enjoying “Headrush.” The title is a perfect way to describe this highly energetic single. Ski Mask channels the powers of Goku (who he likens himself to on the track), as his vocals are pitched up and are laid on top of a trap/rock fusion that sounds killer.
What are your thoughts on this brand-new single “Headrush” by Ski Mask The Slump God? Is this the better promotional track for his upcoming album 11th Dimension, why or why not? Do you like the rock/trap direction that he is going in for this long-awaited project? We would like to hear what you have to say, so be sure to leave your takes in the comments section. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest news surrounding Ski Mask The Slump God. Finally, stay with us for everything else going on in the music world.
Quotable Lyrics:
Break the damn stage, on a rampage Stand on business so much I started a stampede She gon’ handle me, yuh, like a twelve gauge Power up like Kakarot, I’m in my last phase Talkin’ to the bread, what the bands say? On some Grim Reaper s***, Billy and Mandy
Every year, some of the biggest stars in rap and R&B gather in one place. Over the weekend that place was Los Angeles for the 2024 Rolling Loud LA Festival. With four big-name headliners and dozens of beloved supporting acts, everybody got a taste of something they love during the festival. While everyone goes to music festivals for different artists and different reasons, these were some of the best sets of the weekend that brought both energy and theatricality to the festival stage.
For a lot of artists, the spectacle is as much a part of the show as anything else. That was definitely the case right out of the gate for Summer’s Saturday Night performance at the GoPuff stage. With an impressive live band and array of backup dancers she made her presence known instantly upon arrival. But unlike some of the weekend’s other most theatrical performances, there was actually substance underneath the flash.
Throughout her set, Walker brushed through numerous fan favorites as well as some of her newest material. Throughout, Walker’s vocals were stunning, consistently soaring above the live instrumentation. Her performance was strong enough to reach the dramatic peaks of some of her most dramatic sonic moments and it made the set an absolute delight.
Rolling Loud has a reputation for virality. That often comes from huge moments where the biggest names in hip-hop take an absolutely massive stage to show off their sheer force of star power. The only set of the entire weekend that lived up to that level of grandiosity was the Sunday night headlining slot of Future and Metro Boomin. The two superstars closed out the entire festival with a career-spanning performance that lived up to the promise of Rolling Loud.
Just a few weeks ago the pair confirmed that they have two new albums on the way very soon. Throughout the set, they continually promised that it was going to be some of the best music of the year. From what they performed live, many fans agreed, In particular, when the duo had fellow stars Travis Scott and Playboi Carti join them on stage it made for one of the best and most talked about moments of the entire weekend.
Saturday night, Flo Milli hit the GoPuff stage in the wake of a major couple of weeks for her. She’s scored one of her biggest hits to date with the single “Never Lose Me,” which just got a new remix featuring SZA and Cardi B. She also just released her new album Fine Ho, Stay her first new project since 2022. All of that gave her plenty of reason to celebrate and flex, which is exactly what she did throughout her set.
She delivered one fan-favorite cut after another spanning her entire career during the 30-minute set. Much like her albums, it was an absolute banger fest. For one song after another Flo Milli routinely got the chance to spit confident bars and hard-hitting catchy refrains. With an audience clearly packed full of die-hard fans the intensity and attitude of the performance was unrivaled for the entire weekend.
It’s only fitting that two of California’s finest would deliver one of the best performances of Rolling Loud Los Angeles. YG first appeared on Thursday night alongside Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign, and a myriad of other guests for the VULTURES listening party. But that was nothing compared to the energy he would bring to his own set on Friday. He’s celebrating the 10th anniversary of his debut album My Krazy Life and kicked off the set with fiery performances of some of the album’s classics.
But the highlight of the show came once the pair went back to back in the second half. They did an impromptu live Verzuz on stage that reminded fans they both have hit after hit. That even included a surprise appearance from Saweetie alongside YG where they tantalized the crowd by flirting on stage. The celebration of two of the West Coast’s finest felt like one of those Rolling Loud moments that fans will talk about for years to come.
One of the most signature elements of Rolling Loud is the raucous crowds. Nearly every year videos of massive mosh pits breaking out with fans going absolutely wild hit the internet and go viral. It’s arguably the hallmark of the entire festival. Yet the only crowd of the weekend that really felt like it lived up to that high bar of intensity was Ski Mask The Slump God. He’s no Rolling Loud novice and you could tell as he seemingly knew exactly what songs to deliver to get the crowd hype.
During the second half of the set, he paid tribute to both XXXTENTACION and Juice Wrld and the crowd chanted along with nearly every word of every song. From the more intimate moments where cell phone lights swayed back and forth to the throttling intensity of songs like “Rip Roach,” Ski Mask’s set was the weekend’s lone moment that felt like it was destined to be the next viral Rolling Loud crowd hype video. Nobody all weekend was in command of the stage and the crowd more than Ski Mask The Slump God.
Ski Mask The Slump God has always been a fun, experimental, and hilarious figure in hip-hop. He is immensely talented and is someone you can count for some speedy flows and creative bars. There are not too many rappers like him, but unfortunately for fans, he just does not drop much. However, with Ski Mask’s new single “Shibuya,” hopefully this a sign that he is ready to release more material.
This in the Florida native’s first solo single since October 2022 with “OOGA BOOGA!” On that track Ski Mask sports an easy-going flow over a bouncy beat. Rumors had it that this was going to be a single for his eagerly-awaited sophomore album 11th Dimension. His debut, STOKELEY, dropped all the way back on November 30, 2018.
In fact, it was also a major possibility that Ski Mask would put out the record in November 2022. However, that obviously did not happen. The last update, outside of “Shibuya,” would come in November 2023 on X. “11th Dimension The Album Coming So Soon,” according to Genius. Now with this new single, there is some talk we could get the album this month, but our confidence levels are low. As for “Shibuya,” Ski Mask is rocking a more laid-back and melodic flow, over a rage-esque beat with some killer synths. In typical quirky fashion, there are some Super Mario Bros. coin collecting sound effects for some extra character.
What are your thoughts on this brand-new single, “Shibuya,” by Ski Mask The Slump God? Is this one of his strongest tracks in recent memory, why or why not? What is your favorite element of the song and why? Does this get you excited for his upcoming album, 11th Dimension? We would like to hear what you have to say, so be sure to leave your takes in the comments section. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest news surrounding Ski Mask The Slump God. Finally, stay with us for everything the most informative song posts throughout the week.
Quotable Lyrics:
These n****s bе on treason, I swear that they switch I just needed a reason, already dug his ditch (Yuh) They say I’m on fire like a nineteenth-century witch No snow when I blow up the wire, they think I’m 50 Cent, uh I’ve been hittin’ stains, vool, you too? Let’s be Bonnie, Clyde, f*** ya sayin’?
Ski Mask The Slump God has made a long-awaited return. Tonight (March 15), the elusive rapper kicked off the chapter of his upcoming album, 11th Dimension, which is set to arrive later this year. Signifying the new beginning is the album’s lead single, “Shibuya.”
Over a technological, video game-like beat, Ski Mask reminds everyone that while six years have passed since his debut album, Stokeley, he’s not leaving the rap game anytime soon. He maintains his brash, rough delivery — making it feel that although he’s been away for a minute, it’s like he never left.
“For the right price, he’ll do ya / That’s my right-hand man / We out in Shibuya, outside in Japan / Striped sweater on me like Krueger, huh, what’s it to ya? / Introduce you to my new gun, this Ruger in my pants,” Ski Mask raps on the song’s chorus.
“Shibuya” marks Ski Mask’s first solo single in two years, his most recent being “Ooga Booga.” He also appears on the Lyrical Lemonade album All Is Yellow on a track called “Fly Away” with Sheck Wes.
This Sunday (March 17), Ski Mask will perform at Rolling Loud for a 45-minute set on the Ethika Stage.
In the meantime, you can see listen to “Shibuya” above.
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