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<\/p>\nSacramento hip-hop artist Young Zel explains origin of Kings anthem \u2018Light the Beam\u2019<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCOMING DOWN THE LANE OFF THE REBOUND. IT\u2019S 916. NOW LOOK TOWARDS THE SKY LIKE THE BEAM. NOW TELL EM LIKE THE BEAM. LIKE THE, LIKE THE BEAM. NOW A SACRAMENTO HIP HOP ARTIST HAS TURNED THE ICONIC BEAM ON TOP OF THE GOLDEN ONE CENTER INTO AN ANTHEM FOR THE TEAM. DENZEL JOYCE, ALSO KNOWN AS YUNG ZELL, IS THE ARTIST BEHIND THE SONG LIGHT THE BEAM. AND WE\u2019RE EXCITED. HE\u2019S RIGHT HERE WITH US HERE IN THE STUDIO. SONG\u2019S BEEN OUT THERE FOR A COUPLE YEARS AGO. HOW DID THIS ALL COME TOGETHER? YOU KNOW, JUST BEING A DIE HARD KINGS FAN, I\u2019VE MADE KINGS SONGS BACK IN THE PAST, AND I WAS JUST SITTING THERE ONE DAY AND ONE OF MY FRIENDS MESSAGED ME. HE SAID, HEY, WE GOT A TEAM THIS YEAR. I THINK IT\u2019S TIME FOR YOU TO COME BACK OUT. AND SO THAT\u2019S HOW IT CAME ABOUT. YEAH, THAT\u2019S A GOOD POINT. WELL, DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER SONGS ABOUT THE KINGS THAT YOU\u2019VE BEEN WORKING ON, OR THAT YOU MIGHT RELEASE AT SOME POINT? I\u2019M WORKING ON A COUPLE MORE. I\u2019M JUST KIND OF SEE, YOU KNOW, SEE THE VIBES OF IT. BUT YEAH, YOU KNOW, I\u2019VE LIKE I SAID, I\u2019VE DONE LIKE ONES BLACK AND PURPLE BACK IN THE DAY, I WAS LIKE TEN YEARS AGO OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SO, YOU KNOW, I\u2019M ALWAYS THINKING OF NEW STUFF ALWAYS. AND THIS IS THE ONLY TEAM YOU\u2019VE COME UP WITH AN ANTHEM FOR, RIGHT? YES, ABSOLUTELY. AND I ALSO DID COME UP WITH SOMETHING, THOUGH, FOR SAC STATE COLLEGE. YES I DID, DID STINGERS UP FOR SAC STATE RECENTLY. NICE. ALL RIGHT. SO ARE YOU GOING TO BE PERFORMING AT ANY OF THE KINGS GAMES AT ALL THIS SEASON? NOT THAT I KNOW OF AS OF NOW, BUT I\u2019M JUST A CALL AWAY. THEY\u2019RE WATCHING MAYBE. YEAH. HERE WE GO. HEY, WE\u2019RE SO HAPPY YOU\u2019RE WITH US. AND WE\u2019\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Sacramento hip-hop artist Young Zel explains origin of Kings anthem \u2018Light the Beam\u2019<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 4:49 PM PDT Oct 21, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\tSacramento hip-hop artist Denzel Joyce, known as Young Zel, has turned the iconic beam atop the Golden 1 Center into an anthem for the Sacramento Kings with his song “Light the Beam.” He joined KCRA 3 on Tuesday ahead of the Kings\u2019 new season and described himself as a \u201cdie-hard\u201d fan of the team who had written songs about them in the past. \u201cI was just sitting there one day and one of my friends messaged me,\u201d Young Zel said. \u201cHe said, \u2018Hey, we got a team this year. I think it\u2019s time for you to come back out. And so that\u2019s how it came about.\u201d Young Zel said he\u2019s \u201calways thinking of new stuff,\u201d including more possible songs about the Kings. He\u2019s also penned an anthem for Sacramento State called \u201cStingers Up.\u201dSee more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Sacramento hip-hop artist Denzel Joyce, known as Young Zel, has turned the iconic beam atop the Golden 1 Center into an anthem for the Sacramento Kings with his song “Light the Beam.” <\/p>\n He joined KCRA 3 on Tuesday ahead of the Kings\u2019 new season and described himself as a \u201cdie-hard\u201d fan of the team who had written songs about them in the past. <\/p>\n \n\tThis content is imported from YouTube. \u201cI was just sitting there one day and one of my friends messaged me,\u201d Young Zel said. \u201cHe said, \u2018Hey, we got a team this year. I think it\u2019s time for you to come back out. And so that\u2019s how it came about.\u201d <\/p>\n Young Zel said he\u2019s \u201calways thinking of new stuff,\u201d including more possible songs about the Kings. <\/p>\n He\u2019s also penned an anthem for Sacramento State called \u201cStingers Up.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThis content is imported from YouTube. See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento hip-hop artist Young Zel explains origin of Kings anthem \u2018Light the Beam\u2019 COMING DOWN THE LANE OFF…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2820,14673,8010,14675,14672,6706,14567,671,2962,14674,121,123,6707,122,5481,10390,669,427,2734,14568],"class_list":["post-16980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-app","tag-beam","tag-center","tag-golden","tag-king-anthem","tag-kings","tag-light-the-beam","tag-more-coverage","tag-new-season","tag-origin","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-king","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-state","tag-song","tag-subscribe","tag-team","tag-top-california-story","tag-young-zel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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