2018Released
3:39

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Interesting facts and trivia about Paramedic!. By Songfacts®.

Bay Area rap collective SOB X RBE recorded this hard-hitting cut for the Kendrick Lamar-curated Black Panther soundtrack album. "One of Kendrick's partners hit me in my DM on Twitter and I hit my manager Stretch to see if it was real because I couldn't believe it," the group's Slimmy B recalled to Billboard. "Kendrick ended up flying us all out there and we didn't know it was for the Black Panther album until we got there. He had the beat and the first three bars already and told us we can do whatever we wanted to do, so we went in there and did just that."

SOB x RBE are joined by an uncredited Kendrick Lamar and soul singer Zacari on the tune. The latter pair previously teamed up on the Compton MC's DAMN album for the hit tune, "LOVE."

"Paramedic!" is from the point of view of Erik Killmonger, the main villain of Black Panther. The first words of the song rapped by Kendrick Lamar are, "I am Erik Killmonger" and the "Northern California" in the hook is a nod to Killmonger's birthplace. Lamar also spat from the point of view of Killmonger in his verse on "King's Dead."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Paramedic!.
C♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
97BPM

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The album Paramedic! is released on.

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The record label that has released Paramedic!.
Black Panther (TDE/DMG) PS
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℗ 2018 Aftermath Records

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