Jessie Reyez’s new album, BEFORE LOVE CAME TO KILL US, has arrived, and while she keeps the guest features to a minimum, she does pay homage to some several big-name rappers on the project’s ninth track, “ROOF.” The Worth It and Bizness Boi-produced song features a prominent interpolation of Kendrick Lamar’s flow on ScHoolboy Q’s “Collard Greens.” In the same breath, she shouts out a trip of rap and R&B albums, too.
The song’s only verse kicks off with her singing: Reyez follows the same cadence as the opening of Kendrick’s “Collard Greens” verse, where he raps: The albums she shouts out—JAY-Z’s The Blueprint, Kendrick’s good kid, m.A.A.d city, and Frank Ocean’s Blonde—all hold a special significance to her.
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