GloRilla and Kehlani spread holiday cheer with new single, ‘Xmas Time’

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GloRilla and Kehlani have teamed up to release the fun Christmas-inspired ballad ‘Xmas Time’ ahead of the holidays. Listen below.Recently, GloRilla teased the duo’s first-ever collaboration by uploading videos to social media.

On Instagram, she shared an animation of both artists as bobbleheads in a snow globe. “Good luck with yo Mrs dis as merry as I’m getting,” the rapper wrote in the caption.

She then posted a video of her and Kehlani on set dancing to a mashup of Mariah Carey’s Number One smash ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ and Glo’s ‘Whatchu Kno About Me’.Now, ‘Xmas Time’ has finally been released with an accompanying performance video.

In the clip, the song starts with a slow and ethereal instrumental as the two are surrounded by a winter wonderland full of snow, twinkling lights and Christmas trees.Kehlani kicks off the song by singing the chorus: “Maybe this is all I need, moments like this with my family/ Nothing compares to how it feels, Christmas time.”GloRilla raps over the same slow beat for her first verse, but – for her second – she picks up the pace, turning ‘Xmas Time’ into a menacing trap tune with jingle bell accents, rapping: “I’m out in that snow today/ New toy look like Santa’s sleigh.”The song comes two months after GloRilla released her long-awaited debut album, ‘Glorious’.