{"id":72545,"date":"2026-09-11T04:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/kendrick-lamar-joins-jhene-aiko-on-new-song-so-good\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T04:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:21:39","slug":"kendrick-lamar-joins-jhene-aiko-on-new-song-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/kendrick-lamar-joins-jhene-aiko-on-new-song-so-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar Joins Jhen\u00e9 Aiko on New Song \u201cSo Good\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/29698-jhene-aiko\/\">Jhen\u00e9 Aiko<\/a>\u2019s first album in six years, <em>Westside Whimsy<\/em>, is out now, and with it comes a new verse from <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/29812-kendrick-lamar\/\">Kendrick Lamar<\/a>. Listen to the duo\u2019s \u201cSo Good\u201d below.<\/p>\n<p>The track continues a partnership that began on Lamar\u2019s 2010 mixtape <em>Overly Dedicated<\/em>, long before either artist\u2019s mainstream breakthrough. In 2013, a year after <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/17253-good-kid-maad-city\/\"><em>Good Kid, M.A.A.D City<\/em><\/a>., Lamar contributed a verse to \u201cStay Ready (What a Life)\u201d from Aiko\u2019s debut EP, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/18777-jhene-aiko-sail-out-ep\/\"><em>Sail Out<\/em><\/a>. Until today, that seemed to be where their paths diverged, though Playboi Carti paired verses by the two of them on \u201cBackd00rs\u201d from last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/playboi-carti-music\/\"><em>Music<\/em><\/a>. Other guests on <em>Westside Whimsy<\/em> include Larry June, Ab-Soul, and, uh, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/starface-tyga-starface\/\">Tyga<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-fixZhC fJBrNq iframe-embed\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/story\/kendrick-lamar-joins-jhene-aiko-on-new-song-so-good\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jhen\u00e9 Aiko\u2019s first album in six years, Westside Whimsy, is out now, and with it comes a new verse from Kendrick Lamar. Listen to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}