Cyrus Langhorne
Atlanta rapper 21 Savage is channeling some serious R&B vibes. The hip-hop star has taken a break from music-making to sing a classic Lauryn Hill banger.
This week, Sav hopped onto his Instagram Story with clips of himself crooning to Hill’s 1998 anthem “Nothing Even Matters” D’Angelo duet.
The crooning is back. 👌🏾 📸 @21savage pic.twitter.com/QfN6EHDFhH
— SOHH (@sohh) August 15, 2018
In July, 21 put the Internet in tears with hilarious footage of himself crooning.
R. Kelly. Ja Rule. SZA. Who’d we miss? 🤔 📸 @21savage pic.twitter.com/JlZb2w4sNq
— SOHH (@sohh) July 19, 2018
In late June, Sav dished on his close-knit bond to Young Money’s Drake.
“Drake just a genuine-a** good-hearted person,” he says, punting on why nobody else got him anything. “He did a lot of shit he didn’t have to do. He do a lot of shit for up-and-coming rappers, period. I don’t think he get his respect for that. Every f*ckin’ year, he pull a new artist up. Ain’t no other artist on his level do that sh*t.” (GQ)
21 also shot down speculation about recently trying to end the Pusha-T/Drake feud with a tweet telling people to end beefs.
“When I was talking about that, I wasn’t talking about [Pusha-T and Drake’s] beef. ’Cause they beef is like competition beef; it’s more like who-can-out-rap-who type shit. It’s different,” he tells me. “If I beef with somebody, it’s going to be more than just a song. I’ma be trying to kill your a**.” Given the recent fatal shootings of XXXTentacion and Jimmy Wopo, and the attempted shooting of Chief Keef in Times Square, the stakes outlined are, perhaps, not abstract. (There is no indication those shootings were related to rap feuds, but celebrity is not bulletproof.) “If you do a song saying you gon’ harm somebody that you rap beefing with, cut that sh*t out, unless you ready to kill somebody or die,” 21 says. “If I got beef with you, that mean I want to kill you. And I ain’t go through all this shit to get rich to goddamn go to jail for killing.” (GQ)
