“Walkin” by Denzel Curry

"Walkin" was the lead single from Melt My Eyez See Your Future, Denzel Curry's fifth studio album, and it rode in on a beat that won't sit still: Kal Banx's production starts out in boom bap and slides into southern rap, and Curry switches flows to keep pace. His subject is heavy, everyday life grinding on while the world slips backward, racial and wealth inequality, and the fight to get somewhere when times are hard. Banx, Curry and Keith Mansfield share the writing credit, Bridget Perez adds backing vocals, and Nathan Burgess recorded and mixed it.

Adrian Villagomez's video turns it into a sci-fi western: Curry crosses a desert planet alone, past a village, kids on a swing set and men out to kill him, dropping to his knees again and again before he beats his archenemy John Wayne in a final showdown. A remix with Key Glock followed in June.

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