{"id":5208,"date":"2023-12-06T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T20:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2025-05-17T18:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T23:01:02","slug":"dj-khaled-assembling-yet-another-star-studded-effort-marked-by-epic-blockbuster-rap-collabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5208","title":{"rendered":"DJ Khaled \u2014 Assembling Yet Another Star-Studded Effort Marked By Epic Blockbuster Rap Collabs"},"content":{"rendered":"

For superstitious types, 13 can be a profoundly unlucky number. Thankfully, DJ Khaled is taking no chances with his 13th album, Assembling Yet Another Star-Studded Effort Marked By Epic Blockbuster Rap Collabs. His pull in the game may be stronger than ever, gathering hip-hop heavyweights and contemporary hitmakers in ways that make his projects feel like events. JAY-Z, Lil Wayne, and Rick Ross unite for the title track, a triumphant victory lap with a John Legend coda.<\/p>\n

Unlike 2021\u2019s KHALED KHALED, which courted greater pop clout via features from Justins Bieber and Timberlake, GOD DID finds the We the Best boss more focused on hip-hop and his unofficial role as the genre\u2019s mainstream curatorial maestro, reliably orchestrating seemingly impossible crowd-pleasing outcomes through his behind-the-scenes machinations and industry handshake connections.<\/p>\n

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We the Best familiars Drake and Future make multiple appearances\u2014the former disco-strutting over \u201cSTAYING ALIVE\u201d with Lil Baby and the latter in a throwback state of mind for \u201cBEAUTIFUL\u201d with SZA. The lines between drill and trap blur into darkness when Lil Durk, 21 Savage, and Roddy Ricch get aggressive for \u201cKEEP GOING.\u201d In a Khaled first, he secures a long-coveted Eminem feature on a remix of Kanye West\u2019s JESUS IS KING standout \u201cUse This Gospel,\u201d effectively reuniting the two GOAT contenders on a track for the first time since 2009\u2019s \u201cForever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For superstitious types, 13 can be a profoundly unlucky number. Thankfully, DJ Khaled is taking no chances with his 13th album, Assembling Yet Another Star-Studded Effort Marked By Epic Blockbuster Rap Collabs. His pull in the game may be stronger than ever, gathering hip-hop heavyweights and contemporary hitmakers in ways that make his projects feel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[921],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-streamapse-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}