Fats Joe is placing main respect on Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s identify, saying they’re on the verge of turning into the best rapper/singer duo the sport has ever seen.
Chopping it up on his Joe and Jada podcast, the Hip-Hop OG spoke on how the TDE heavyweights are making severe noise collectively. “What you don’t know is that they’re gonna be finest buddies and all that endlessly,” Joe mentioned. “Proper now, they acquired like six or seven joints. They primary. They might take the slot, 100%. They fireplace collectively.”
Crack even put them in the identical convo as Ja Rule and Ashanti—one of the vital iconic duos within the sport—however made it clear Kendrick and SZA are on a unique degree ‘trigger they each run issues as solo stars. Their collab “Luther” is doing huge numbers, breaking data left and proper. It’s now the longest-running No. 1 hit by a co-billed solo female and male duo, beating out Diddy and Religion Evans’ ‘94 basic “I’ll Be Lacking You.”
That’s not all—“Luther” is formally the most important Hip Hop single of the last decade, passing Roddy Ricch’s “The Field” which held it down for 11 weeks again in 2020. Solely Mariah Carey and Boyz II Males’s “One Candy Day” has spent extra time on the high of the Billboard Sizzling 100. Fats Joe’s calling it early: if Kendrick and SZA hold this wave going, they may simply lock in that GOAT duo standing for actual.