Rapping over solemn piano — it can be executed well!
As an accompanist sounds resonant chords by candlelight, Haitian rapper Jackboy spits bars about the age-old hip-hop topic of needing to stay strapped.
"Say the good die young, so I bought me a gun/ Can't let a n***a take my life. Only f****ing with a few," he raps, sounding commensurately braggadocious and wounded.
In the latest episode of Press Play At Home, watch the two musicians lock into an unlikely synergy as Jackboy relates his streetwise hymn “Show No Love” to the people at home.
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