Kanye West has transported himself back to The 1995 Source Awards on Fivio Foreign’s new song, “Concussion” — listen below.
In the lyric video, which was released on Wednesday (May 31), Ye brings in the exact same energy that Snoop Dogg had at The 1995 Source Awards at the height of the beef between the East and West Coast.
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“Yeah you know where we at/Yeah we know where we at/Ya’ll ain’t got no love for Snoop Dogg/Ya’ll ain’t go no love for Dr. Dre/Ya’ll ain’t got no love for Ye,” he raps at the beginning of the track.
Snoop’s version was aimed directly at those who were trying to get in his and Death Row’s way at the time.
“The East Coast don’t love Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg?” Snoop asked. “The East Coast ain’t got no love for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg and Death Row? Ya’ll don’t love us? Ya’ll don’t love us? Well let it be known then! We don’t give a fuck! We know ya’ll East Coast! We know where the fuck we at! East Coast in the muthafucking house!”
After Kanye West blessed the track with a set of rare bars, Fivio Foreign then chimed in and centered his verse around the fast life he’s been living since entering into the Hip Hop game.
“Cause I was young, even when I got older (Grr, baow)/Huh, and I got this demon on my shoulder (I do)/But I never see him when I’m sober (Nah)/If you catch me off the ’42, then it’s over (Baow)/One-nine, forty-two, then it’s over (Grr, baow)/State of mind, they cut the beast in the background/How I’m go run into opps where I’m at now?,” Fivio Foreign raps on the track.
He continues: “They couldn’t catch us, we livin’ too fast now/They almost had us, but we was too agile (Skrrt)/Uh, yeah, look, huh, niggas is opps, but they be on the ave’ now.”
As for the Profit Originals Studios directed AI visual, if looks as if both men are in a futuristic war zone littered with tanks and sandbags. Even though both men are in computer-generated black attire, Kanye West is in a Yeezy mask while Fivio is in a mask donning an eagle on it.
The “Hot Sauce” rapper previously teased a collab between him and Kanye West in April while also flexing a framed Grammy nomination letter for his contributions to Ye’s 2021 Donda album.
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Fivio showed a sneak peak of the rambunctious single as part of an Instagram slideshow which featured a melodic Ye on the hook before the drill maestro invades the piano-laden track.
Yeezy sets the tone: “Everyone know it/And I’m not, no I’m not going/Everyone knows it.”
“Because everyone knows it, huh,” Fivio takes the baton and raps. “They never told me the things they couldn’t tell me cus I was younger when I got older/I got demons on my shoulder/But I never see him when I’m sober/If you pass me the 42 it’s over.”
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It’s not the first time Fivio and Kanye have collided on wax, as they previously teamed up for Donda‘s “Off the Grid” as well as “Ok Ok.” They unofficially connected on Donda 2‘s “We Did It Kid” with the Migos and Baby Keem, but that only found its way onto Ye’s Stem Player.
However, Ye, along with Alicia Keys, returned the favor by assisting on Fivio Foreign’s “City of Gods” in February 2022, which reached No. 46 on the Billboard Hot 100.
