TDE affiliate Devin Malik has been experiencing a rush of success since appearing on ScHoolboy Q‘s Blue Lips, and now he’s continuing his streak with the release of his new track, “Canadian Tux,” which you can check out below.
Directed by Cordell Jomha, the official video for the song dropped on Friday (March 29). In the song, Malik raps about living the high life and all the spoils that come with the territory.
“They think this lifestyle easy even though they could never just achieve it/ Start to wonder why they hating, all I had to do was give ’em a reason/ Nowadays, everyone changing, everyone changing on me like the seasons/ If I hit this ho she gon’ tell — I guess that’s life when you at the Four Seasons,” he raps.
Check out the video below.
Based on that, Kendrick Lamar seems to already be a fan of the newcomer’s work.
Last week, Malik, who made cameos on “Back n Love” and “Love Birds” on the aforementioned album, took to social media to share a series of photographs with K.Dot inside what appears to be a studio.
In the X, formerly known as Twitter, post, he wrote, “i just met kendrick & he told me ‘u the kid that went crazy on blue lips’ ?!?!!!” His Instagram collage of photos from the same meeting was captioned: “GOOD KID MAAD TUX.”
Earlier this month, ScHoolboy Q made it clear that he will never stop making music, as he can’t even imagine his life as anything but an artist. The Los Angeles rapper sat down for an interview with Nadeska in mid-March, during which he admitted that he wouldn’t know what to do with himself were he were forced to retire from rap.
“I’ll never retire — never,” he began. “Artists can’t retire. It’s like, impossible. I’m not saying I’m gonna be rappin’ forever, but I’ll never retire from music. I just don’t see it. How is that possible?
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“Snoop’s still doin’ it. Dre’s still doin’ it. Nas’s still doin’ it. Jay’s still doin’ it. Em’s still doin’ it. I’mma do it too. I keep sayin’: I’m going out like B.B. King [who performed until several months before his death at 89].”
He continued: “I’m rappin’ until I’m 80. DJ Premier’s still doin’ it. He’s in his 50s. Rap is still new, so we don’t have that many 80-year-old’s still killin’ it. I’m gonna be 80, still on the mic, crackin’.
“I’ma be doing this shit forever. I don’t ever plan on stopping. ‘Cause this is all I got. This is the way I express myself. I don’t need a therapist, I got a microphone.”