Super producer Hit-Boy has been in has bag over the last few years. He shared the Nas assisted single “The Tide” from his upcoming solo album, Surf or Drown dropping March 24.
“The Tide” video directed by ThirdEyeRaz as the rappers explore paintings in an art gallery and playing a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden.
The dynamic duo’s chemistry is undeniable, as the pair have teamed up for Nas’s classic trilogy King’s Disease albums over the the past few years. With production from Hit-Boy Nas won his first Grammy for best rap album for King’s Disease.
Hit-Boy is flexing his lyrical muscle proving he is just a beatmaker.
Hit-Boy recently revealed that he did the production for the songs himself.
“I’m literally dropping a whole album next week with me rapping,” he said in an interview with Home Grown Media Group. “I got features on it. It’s produced by me, and a couple of the homies did some little pieces, but it’s a real good body of just what I’m on right now. … It’s gonna be like 11 joints.”
Surf or Drown has top notch collaborations with artist like Curren$y, Spank Nitti James, Devin Morrison, James Fauntleroy, Dom Kennedy, and The Alchemist.
Hit-Boy confirmed that Surf or Drown will include his recently released single with The Alchemist, “Slipping Into Darkness,” which saw him take shots at fellow producers Metro Boomin, Southside, Mustard and Hitmaka.
The diss as aimed at Hitmaka and came in response to his recent claim that he’s a better producer than Hit-Boy because he has more songs on the radio.
Appearing on SiriusXM’s Billboard Live on Tuesday (March 14), Jim Jones has called for Hitmaka to go up against Hit-Boy in a Verzuz battle.
“I told you how we could settle this bit. A Verzuz, a pass-the-aux Verzuz, all hits. Let’s see who got the most hits out there. Fuck the rapping, let’s get to the hits. We ain’t gotta rap a bar, you heard?”
