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Fresh off the DSP release of King of the Mischievous South – and an imminent, lengthy world tour around the corner – Denzel Curry took to the Jimmy Kimmel stage for a late-night performance of one of the project's standout cuts "GOT ME GEEKED."Curry's R&B-coded cut got an even more soulful rendition on Tuesday night's performance, as the rapper was joined by a backing band filled with strings and horns. Curry emulated the energy brought by the band in his delivery of the track, infusing his emotion into every lyric of the two-and-a-half-minute track."I'm leaving this club less sober (aye) / Got a Keke and my soda (aye) / Got a Keke on my shoulders (yeah) / Say she need me, I don't want her, geeked, geeked," he croons on the chorus, strutting a dimly-lit stage with his sunglasses on an...

Two unreleased collaborations between J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar were recently played on the former's Inevitable podcast.The Dreamville founder and his manager, Ibrahim “Ib” Hamad, shared the untitled joints during the podcast's latest episode. As per the duo, the songs were recorded in 2012 when Drake‘s "Club Paradise Tour" — which had Dot and A$AP Rocky as the opening acts— was taking place in North Carolina. “[Lamar] came to Fayetteville and we worked on that studio bus for two or three days,” Cole shared, adding that one of the tracks was produced by Oddisee. “Before, I had sent him joints, but this was the first time we actually got to lock in and work on sh*t. And that sh*t was so fun, dawg… It felt like when your cousin would come over to your house.”The rapper further opened up abo...