{"id":72549,"date":"2026-09-11T08:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/jhene-aiko-taps-kendrick-lamar-for-so-good\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:02:28","slug":"jhene-aiko-taps-kendrick-lamar-for-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/jhene-aiko-taps-kendrick-lamar-for-so-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Jhen\u00e9 Aiko Taps Kendrick Lamar for &#8216;So Good&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The singer released her new LP, <em>Westside Whimsy<\/em>, today <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jhene-aiko\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jhene-aiko\" data-tag=\"jhene-aiko\">Jhen\u00e9 Aiko<\/a> dropped her new album, <em>Westside Whimsy<\/em>, which includes a collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kendrick-lamar\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kendrick-lamar\" data-tag=\"kendrick-lamar\">Kendrick Lamar<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe mid-tempo track, titled \u201cSo Good\u201d and written by Lamar, sees the pair swapping verses and combining their voices. \u201cI can\u2019t let a messy bitch get in my way\/ I\u2019m way too grown plus I\u2019m top rank,\u201d Aiko croons. \u201cWho was popping it til they got spanked\/ West side, everything Pipe, pipe, pipe it up\/ Ghetto intellectual, swerving through the jet fuel, breaking down the decimals.\u201d <\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jhen\u00e9 Aiko - So Good feat. Kendrick Lamar (Official Audio)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QArBw68H-_Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>Westside Whimsy<\/em> also features collaborations with Larry June, Ab-Soul, Tyga, and OHMA. The 20-track album is Aiko\u2019s follow-up to her 2020 effort, <em>Chilombo<\/em>. Earlier this year, the singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/product-recommendations\/lifestyle\/jhene-aiko-interview-wellness-coachella-velocity-black-1235553490\/\">described the LP<\/a> to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> as \u201ca lifestyle.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s not a project,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a lifestyle. Everything I do is that \u2014 you\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLamar\u2019s last album, <em>GNX<\/em>, came out in 2024. Last year, he headlined the Super Bowl XXVII halftime show, for which he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction. He also featured on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/clipse-chains-and-whips-music-video-kendrick-lamar-1235385278\/\">\u201cChains &amp; Whips,\u201d<\/a> a standout track from Clipse\u2019s album <em>Let God Sort Em Out<\/em>. The rappers won Best Rap Performance at the Grammys for the track. In February, Lamar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/baby-keems-casino-takeaways-1235519851\/\">teamed up<\/a> with Baby Keem for \u201cGood Flirts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jhene-aiko-kendrick-lamar-so-good-collaboration-1235625111\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The singer released her new LP, Westside Whimsy, today Jhen\u00e9 Aiko dropped her new album, Westside Whimsy, which includes a collaboration with Kendrick Lamar&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":72550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","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\/72549","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}