New Video: Skyzoo - "Jansport Strings" (Prod. By 9th Wonder) - RESPECT.

Yesterday Skyzoo dropped the visuals for the lead single off his upcoming album, A Dream Deferred. “Jansport Strings” features the Brooklyn, N.Y.-bred spitta going in on a bass-heavy offering from producer 9th Wonder, so this joint has plenty for hip-hop heads to delve into. Sky clearly put in work on these bars, but it’s unfortunate that the beat sometimes shines a bit brighter than the vocals. To put it bluntly though, there’s a lot more going on once you break the surface of this track. A Dream Deferred is due out October 2nd, but this cut will do just fine for now.

Read a bit more about this collaboration below.

“The idea behind Jansport Strings is not based on it being literal, but more so in the figurative sense. As a kid in NY, the strings on your Jansport bag were a sign of power and presence. Kids would steal the strings off of each other’s bags and burn the tips to prevent getting robbed of them once they got them. The song is a 3 minute auto-bio of me as a kid in Brooklyn and seeing more than my friends and I had bargained for. In essence, my Jansport strings tied it all together, seeing what we all saw and what it made us. The ending is a clip from Video Music Box, the legendary NYC video show run by DJ Ralph McDaniels. This episode in particular was the debut of Chi-Ali’s ‘Age Ain’t Nothin But A Number’. Seeing that video that day on this episode of VMB made me start rhyming. This clip was literally the moment that changed my life”.