Jaden Smith, Vic Mensa, and Stomach are anime characters in new Christian Wealthy video “Shibuya (Ghost II)”: Watch
Grammy-nominated manufacturing duo Christian Wealthy — the mission of dual brothers Kehinde and Taiwo Hassan — tapped Jaden Smith, Vic Mensa, and Stomach to collaborate on a brand new single. The track, titled “Shibuya (Ghost II)”, picks up the place Smith’s 2018 single “Ghost” left off. This follow-up was recorded in Los Angeles after which digitally shared with the three rappers later so as to add verses.
Rap will be as enjoyable or critical as you need it to be. For a producer, a part of the enjoyable is arising with a beat that will get caught in your head or warps samples creatively. Christian Wealthy pulls that off effectively right here with a low-flying bass rumble and a few distant church bells. In the case of lyrics, your greatest wager is placing one thing private on the road or going full comedic absurdity. In some way, Jaden, Vic Mensa, and Stomach fall flat within the center. “Shibuya (Ghost II)” is a choose-your-fighter of cringeworthy strains: “Consuming pussy in an Uber/I can’t assist that I’m nasty,” “Tryna make it possible for I go away will for my niece,” “Promoting out merch like dough.” Actually, it’s laborious to select only one.
“Shibuya (Ghost II)” comes with a cool music video, although, so it’s straightforward to forgive the underwhelming verses. The anime-inspired video was produced by Eddy, directed by Olivier Lescot, and created by animation studio Brunch. In it, superhero-like characters impressed by He-Man and G-Pressure get caught up overlooking the town, exploding an area station-like shuttle, and finally get lost into what’s going to presumably be a brand new world by way of a large door-shaped teleport. Test it out under.
In a press launch, Christian Wealthy clarify how this track got here to be a two-part ordeal: “Jaden completed his verses inside a day or so. We had been searching for only one verse from every artist however Jaden did three verses and favored the track a lot that they requested if they might launch a model of track in addition to, which we thought was dope and agreed to it.”
Given how a lot room Smith has to develop as a rapper, you’ll suppose he sees artists like Kanye West as position fashions, not equivalents. Seems that’s not the case. West and Smith are making a restricted half-hour anthology collection known as Ominverse for Showtime. The primary season will discover the Ego by means of the choice actuality of West, whose youthful self will likely be performed by Smith. Lee Sung Jin (Silicon Valley, Undone, Tuca & Bertie) is tapped to assist write it. Right here’s hoping it’s higher than this.