"King's Dead" is a song by American rappers Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, and Future with English singer James Blake, from the soundtrack album of the Marvel Studios superhero film Black Panther and Jay Rock's third studio album Redemption. The version featured on Redemption did not feature Blake, only contained Lamar for the hook and contains multiple differences to the original one.
It was released by Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records on January 11, 2018, as both the soundtrack's second single and as the lead single from Redemption. The song is Jay Rock's first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. The song, along with "Bubblin" by Anderson .Paak, won Best Rap Performance, and was nominated for Best Rap Song at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.
Reception Briana Younger of Pitchfork gave the song a positive review, calling the song "fun and swaggering".
Music video The music video for the song was released to Rock's Vevo channel on YouTube on February 15, 2018. It was directed by Dave Free and Jack Begert.
Remixes On March 8, 2018, American rappers Joey Badass and XXXTentacion released a remix of the song.
Personnel Credits adapted from digital booklet.
Performers Jay Rock – vocals Kendrick Lamar – vocals Future – vocals James Blake – vocals
Technical Matt Schaeffer – record engineering, mix engineering Mike Bozzi – master engineering Eric Manco – record engineering
Production Kendrick Lamar – production Teddy Walton – production Sounwave – additional production 30 Roc – uncredited co-production – uncredited co-production
Charts
Weekly charts Chart (2018) Peak position Australia (ARIA) 58 Greece (IFPI Greece) 28 Netherlands (Single Tip) 6 New Zealand Heatseekers (Recorded Music NZ) 4 Sweden Heatseeker (Sverigetopplistan) 1
Year-end charts Chart (2018) Position Canada (Canadian Hot 100) 97 US Billboard Hot 100 79 US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard) 41
Certifications
Release history Region Date Format Label(s) Various January 11, 2018 United States January 30, 2018 Rhythmic contemporary
Notes signifies an uncredited co-producer
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