{"id":596900,"date":"2026-09-11T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596900\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:06:09","slug":"kendrick-lamar-joins-jhene-aiko-on-new-song-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596900\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar Joins Jhen\u00e9 Aiko on New Song \u201cSo Good\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/29698-jhene-aiko\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jhen\u00e9 Aiko<\/a>\u2019s first album in six years, Westside Whimsy, is out now, and with it comes a new verse from <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/29812-kendrick-lamar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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 Overly Dedicated, long before either artist\u2019s mainstream breakthrough. In 2013, a year after <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/17253-good-kid-maad-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Good Kid, M.A.A.D City<\/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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sail Out<\/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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Music<\/a>. Other guests on Westside Whimsy include Larry June, Ab-Soul, and, uh, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/starface-tyga-starface\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyga<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jhen\u00e9 Aiko\u2019s first album in six years, Westside Whimsy, is out now, and with it comes a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[48,430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-596900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-audio","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}