Quavo and Lana Del Rey have lastly launched their long-awaited collaboration together with a music video wherein they lean into rumors in regards to the nature of their relationship.
On Wednesday (July 3), the pair launched “Powerful” after stirring up anticipation for it over the previous few months. The visible options each stars cozying up to one another in a spread of country-themed photographs as they sing their elements and even share the mic on the refrain.
“Powerful just like the scuff on a pair of previous leather-based boots/ Just like the blue-collar, red-dirt angle/ Like a .38 made out of brass/ Powerful just like the stuff in your grandpa’s glass,” the duo sing collectively through the crossover.
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The unlikely pair had been first noticed collectively at a Grammys occasion earlier this 12 months.
Quickly after, they shared a snippet of the then-unnamed music in a joint Instagram publish, together with a photograph of them on a entrance porch with the caption: “If u come from the place u come then u had been born….Powerful!”
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Lana Del Rey is not any stranger to working with rappers. Again in 2017, she summoned The Weeknd for “Lust for Life,” which was launched as a part of her album of the identical title. On that very same tracklist, she teamed up with Playboi Carti and A$AP Rocky on “Summer time Bummer.”
The New York native additionally labored with The Weeknd on two of his songs, “Prisoner” from Magnificence Behind the Insanity (2015) and “Stargirl Interlude” from Starboy (2016).
After the quilt artwork of her 2021 LP Chemtrails Over the Nation Membership was criticized for a scarcity of racial variety, the singer took to social media and wrote in a since-deleted publish: “In 11 years working I’ve all the time been extraordinarily inclusive with out even making an attempt to. My finest associates are rappers my boyfriends have been rappers.”
Unsurprisingly, this was met with an excessive amount of criticism.
