The rapper stopped by Australian radio station Triple J to additionally carry out his personal authentic monitor “Present Me”
Joey Bada$$ paid a go to to the Australian radio station Triple J to cowl Mos Def’s single “Umi Says” from his 1999 debut solo studio album.
The efficiency was a part of the station’s “Like A Model” section the place each week, a musician or band performs a canopy of a track and their very own authentic work.
In an virtually eight minute lengthy clip of “Umi Says,” Bada$$ delivers a easy and melodic prolonged model of Def’s monitor.
His efficiency can also be joined by Zimbabwean-born, Melbourne-based singer KYE of “Good Firm.”
Bada$$ additionally sang “Present Me” for the section’s different half. The rapper delivered a soulful serenade throughout his newest look on the Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon final fall, the place he carried out the track from his lately launched third studio album 2000.
The monitor stands out as a spotlight on 2000, which finds the Brooklyn rapper taking inventory of his success. In a assessment of the album, Rolling Stone wrote: “But a bigger query stays: who’s Joey Bada$$ the rapper in 2022? In some methods, he’ll at all times be that child rocking ciphers in New York with Steez and Professional Period. However he’s advanced with an ethereal, melodic pop sound, usually supplemented with stay devices, that each brightens and tastefully smothers his idiosyncrasies.