{"id":481664,"date":"2019-02-01T07:40:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=788008"},"modified":"2019-02-01T07:40:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:40:10","slug":"hear-big-bois-hard-hitting-new-song-with-killer-mike-return-of-the-dope-boi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-big-bois-hard-hitting-new-song-with-killer-mike-return-of-the-dope-boi\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Big Boi\u2019s Hard-Hitting New Song With Killer Mike, \u2018Return of the Dope Boi\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_9879653g.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/big-boi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_big-boi\" data-tag=\"big-boi\">Big Boi<\/a> recruited some of his longtime Dungeon Family crew for a pair of tonally opposite new songs, \u201cReturn of the Dope Boi\u201d and \u201cDoin It.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/killer-mike\/\" id=\"auto-tag_killer-mike\" data-tag=\"killer-mike\">Killer Mike<\/a> and Backbone assist on the hard-hitting former cut, and Sleepy Brown adds a sleek hook on the latter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cReturn of the Dope Boi\u201d is a grittier cut full of staccato flexing and punctuated tag-teamed boasts, adorned with funk guitar stabs and orchestral synth lines. \u201cI hate steppin\u2019 out until the ice is right,\u201d Big Boi notes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d6pOMWTd1y8?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cDoin It\u201d is a radio-friendly pop-rap tune, with the Outkast emcee musing about eternal love over upbeat piano chords. \u201cYou can catch us in our sunset years; we\u2019ll be swinging on the porch\/Or better yet I\u2019m in the Ferrari, and baby girl gon\u2019 push the Porche,\u201d he rhymes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x9YBoaGyvmw?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Big Boi has yet to reveal whether his new songs will appear on an LP, which would follow his third solo record, 2017\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/big-boi-readies-all-star-new-album-boomiverse-118663\/\"><em>Boomiverse<\/em><\/a>, and his 2015 collaboration with Phantogram, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/big-grams-111547\/\"><em>Big Grams<\/em><\/a>. The rapper is set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/big-boi-super-bowl-halftime-show-778455\/\">perform during the Super Bowl Halftime Show<\/a> on Sunday, February 3rd alongside Maroon 5 and Travis Scott.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/big-boi-super-bowl-new-song-killer-mike-dope-boi-doin-it-788008\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Boi recruited some of his longtime Dungeon Family crew for a pair of tonally opposite new songs, \u201cReturn of the Dope Boi\u201d and \u201cDoin It.\u201d Killer Mike and Backbone assist on the hard-hitting former cut, and Sleepy Brown adds a sleek hook on the latter. \u201cReturn of the Dope Boi\u201d is a grittier cut [&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-481664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 11:28:09","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\/481664","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=481664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}