Joey Bada$$ made his return to The Tonight Show this week with a unique performance of his 2000 album deep cut “Show Me” — watch it below.
On Wednesday (November 2), Joey appeared on the late night talk show alongside Men I Trust, the group he sampled on the record.
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The woozy track’s producers Statik Selektah and Heavy Mellow sampled the Montreal indie band’s “Show Me How,” so the Brooklyn rapper invited band members Jessy Caron and Dragos Chiriac to perform live instrumentation of the sample while lead singer Emma Proulx provided smooth vocals.
Joey Bada$$ glided over the luscious instrumentation for an intoxicating performance that saw him lusting for romance with a love interest besides him. Watch the performance below.
https://youtu.be/-YzFQBfjs_4
2000 arrived in July as a sequel project to Joey’s seminal 1999 10 years later. The much-delayed LP peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard 200 and boasted features from Diddy, Chris Brown, Westside Gunn, Larry June and Capella Grey, along with an uncredited appearance from Nas.
Joey Bada$$ already had his sights set on his next album’s creative direction and he’s looking to channel his inner-Kanye West and his 2008 electro-pop 808s & Heartbreak album exploring relationships with a “boom bap” twist.
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“With 2000 I wanted to have fun and not think too much. Flex up and talk my shit a bit,” he wrote in response to one fan who asked him his next project. “I definitely can see myself visiting the [All-AmeriKKKan Bada$$] more conceptual and socially aware but a part of me wants to touch on love and my experience with romantic relationships a bit more.”
He added: “Something like a boom BAP and heartbreak album. I know my fans will probably hate that but that’s a direction I’ve been wanting to take for a while now whether you motherfuckers like it or not.”
Joey Bada$$ draws influence from more than just Kanye West’s catalog. While speaking with HipHopDX at Rolling Loud New York last year, the Pro Era MC revealed he studies old Kanye and JAY-Z interviews to help him deal with the uncertainty of the future.
“You can go back to old JAY-Z interviews, you can go back to old Kanye West interviews – and Kanye’s actually a good example. You can tell that they don’t know what lies ahead of them and that’s the most beautiful thing,” he said.
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“‘Cause even back in ’08 when Kanye was doing these interviews, to me he’s like, ‘Wow, he’s this big superstar.’ But now look at him. Who would have thought that this is what was lying ahead of him?”
