{"id":480003,"date":"2018-12-18T07:33:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=770506"},"modified":"2018-12-18T07:33:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:33:10","slug":"kodak-black-gives-introspective-testimony-performance-on-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/kodak-black-gives-introspective-testimony-performance-on-kimmel\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodak Black Gives Introspective \u2018Testimony\u2019 Performance on \u2018Kimmel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/KodakBlackJimmyKimmelLive.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Kodak Black performed his new single, \u201cTestimony,\u201d during <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-kimmel-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-kimmel-live\" data-tag=\"jimmy-kimmel-live\">Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a><\/em> on Monday in an intimate setting in front of a live audience. Backed by a three-piece band, the rapper offered an introspective, confessional delivery set to soft white and red lighting, which mirrored the song\u2019s sentiments of salvation and falling to the temptation of the streets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlood in my eyes, I\u2019m goin\u2019 blind, oh\/ Stuck in these streets, feel like my life frozen,\u201d he raps on the chorus. \u201cI\u2019ve been runnin\u2019 these streets, got me dehydrated\/ I\u2019ve been livin\u2019 so crazy, feel like I\u2019m dyin\u2019, baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTestimony\u201d appears on Kodak Black\u2019s sophomore studio album, <em>Dying to Live<\/em>, which was released earlier this month. The LP includes his previously released single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kodak-blacks-travis-scott-offset-zeze-video-759674\/\">Zeze<\/a>\u201d featuring Travis Scott and Migos\u2019 Offset. In a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mdM2LtEUHLE&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">103.5 The Beat<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/8489934\/kodak-black-dying-to-live-track-list-testimony-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em>Billboard<\/em>)<\/a>, the rapper detailed the inspiration behind the album\u2019s title. \u201cIt\u2019s deep. I be feeling like we dying to live, everybody going through something and suffering,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of kids who will do anything just because they probably want to get a flatscreen, get some gold and flex. There\u2019s people who would risk their life for $5000. They\u2019re dying to live. We thugging so hard and wondering why the world won\u2019t soften up around us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kodak-black-testimony-jimmy-kimmel-live-watch-770506\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kodak Black performed his new single, \u201cTestimony,\u201d during Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday in an intimate setting in front of a live audience. Backed by a three-piece band, the rapper offered an introspective, confessional delivery set to soft white and red lighting, which mirrored the song\u2019s sentiments of salvation and falling to the temptation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 13:36:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}