Your Old Droog Premieres ‘Movie’ Album Follow-Up Single ‘Suspects,’ Produced by Edan (EXCLUSIVE)

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Todd Gilchrist Just in time for Hannukah, Jewish American rapper Your Old Droog has released “Suspects,” the first single from his next album after 2024’s “Movie.” Produced by Edan, the song skillfully merges Droog’s skill as a storyteller with a sample from the rapper, producer and DJ’s bottomless library of 1960s and ‘70s pop obscurities.

Though the pair recently toured together on behalf of “Movie” — with Edan as the rapper’s DJ — Droog tells Variety that he originally wrote the song three years ago during a particularly prolific period in his career. “When I dropped ‘YOD Stewart,’ ‘YOD Wave’ [and] ‘Yodney Dangerfield,’ I was going to do something called ‘YOD Serling,’ which was going to be an homage to ‘The Twilight Zone’,” Droog says. “I did maybe four story songs with Edan, and they just never got recorded until now.” Check out “Suspects” below: Droog says that he holds on to a lot of his songs until he feels like the time, and project, is right to release them. “It’s just a case of finding the right home for it sonically and just knowing there’s a time,” he says. “Some of these things have to gestate to finally reach that point where they’re ready to go out into the world. “It’s like the child that’s not leaving the nest yet,” he adds. “Some kids leave their mom’s house at 18, and some stick around to their thirties or mid-twenties.

I’d compare it to that.” Commemorating the holiday season, “Suspects” opens with “‘Twas the night before Christmas,” before offering a gritty, detailed chronicle of a robbery gone wrong.

Even among the rapper’s many crate-digging collaborators — including Madlib, Harry Fraud and MF Doom — the collaboration between Droog and Edan feels especially complementary, creating vivid,.