The first official single from Jay Rock's third album finds him uniting with fellow TDE cohort Kendrick Lamar, as well as James Blake and Future. It marks Jay Rock's first single as a lead artist since his 2015 project 90059.
This cut represents the first time that Jay Rock has collaborated with James Blake or Future, though he previously worked frequently with Kendrick Lamar as they are both members of the Black Hippy rap group. Highlights include a joint mixtape titled No Sleep Till NYC released by the pair in 2007 and Jay jumping on Kendrick's "Money Trees" five years later.
The lyrically explicit two-part song doubles up as being the second single from the Kendrick and Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith curated Black Panther soundtrack. The title refers to the death of King T'Chaka of Wakanda in the previous Captain America: Civil War movie and there are several references to the events of the film and the comic throughout the track. Lamar's verse is spat from the vantage point of Eric Killmonger, the main villain in the storyline.
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