Kirk Knight Gathers His Pro Joey Bada$$, Flatbush Zombies & Dizzy Wright for His New Joint "Good Knight"

In the wake of Kanye West's #YeezySeason2, I tragically missed a new Kirk Knight track that dropped yesterday. The track entitled "Good Knight" is a heavy hitter. It features his pro Joey Bada$$, Flatbush ZOMBiES and Dizzy Wright and they're all completely in their element. The medieval atmosphere that the beat creates brings a rawness and individuality to all their verses. The first verse in is Kirk's and it's mean. His verse is short-lived, but the criticism and questioning he has in his verse brings an interesting extra dimension to everything. It fuses with the 'we're the best and we'll end you' mentality nicely, and for Kirk to end his verse off with a reference to Wu-Tang Clan's "Protect Ya Neck" was a doting moment for me.

Joey Bada$$ takes that ruthless flavor to the next level. He has his lyrical foot on your throat the whole time he's rhymin'. Joey really drives the idea that he can end ya' life with his raps and that feeling is genuinely created. He uses his more gravelly flow (similar to the one on Christ Conscious) here and it brings a new weight to the track. As the track carries on, the zombies start to add their flair to the song. The first member to spit is Zombie Juice and to no surprise he brings the energy needed to shift the tone enough so that the song reinvents itself within itself. He even changes up the topic being rapped about by strictly focusing on conveying why everyone else's music is irrelevant if you're outside of Beast Coast. His fellow zombies Meechy Darko and Erick Arc Elliot explore that same idea. Meech of course brings his beyond dope word play and Erick that intelligence giving their verses personality while in the same realm in terms of subject matter. That doesn't sound challenging since that's what Flatbush always does, but to have it correlate with the previous and subsequent artists is what stands as impressive in my mind.

As "Good Knight" makes it to Dizzy Wright's verse, you already get the feeling that they won. Up to this point, they lyrically abused everybody. Dizzy's just the double tap to make sure you're down. I think his verse might have been the most brutal. Not so much in tone as in diction, Wright lyrically berates his competition in the rap world. He explains to us that he (and Beast Coast) was pretty much destined to win so it's practically futile to even stop them and I agree. All these guys are leading in music today. I've been a fan of all of them for a long time so to hear them all on one song is nuts. This song represents great artists of today being great together in an effort to give us great music. I, for one, am grateful for this collab and it makes me ecstatic for Kirk Knight's forthcoming album, "Late Knight Special". Because Kirk's got next.

Check out the song below.

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