{"id":791607,"date":"2018-12-28T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=773405"},"modified":"2018-12-28T11:00:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:00:23","slug":"valee-and-z-money-could-be-the-next-buddy-cop-comedy-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/valee-and-z-money-could-be-the-next-buddy-cop-comedy-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"Valee and Z Money Could Be The Next Buddy-Cop Comedy Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/12-28_StillGotMoney-copy.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/valee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Valee<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/zmoneyworld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Z Money<\/a>. Like the men before them, the two Chicago rappers have the type of undeniable chemistry that warrants a buddy cop franchise \u2014 tentative name:\u00a0<em>Two 16s<\/em>. Consider their latest video, \u201cStill Got Money\u201d the perfect audition tape.<\/p>\n<p>On record and in song, the two artists crackle with laid-back energy. It\u2019s like watching the world\u2019s most exciting turtle race, except the reptiles, are decked in Gucci and Louis Vuitton. Not much happens in the \u201cStill Got Money\u201d video. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/valee\/\" id=\"auto-tag_valee\" data-tag=\"valee\">Valee<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/z-money\/\" id=\"auto-tag_z-money\" data-tag=\"z-money\">Z Money<\/a> merely glide back and forth as the other raps, but it\u2019s the fluidity of their cadence, mellow nature of their voices and never-ending swaying that makes the entire venture mesmerizing.<\/p>\n<p>In a November interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/valee-good-music-interview-747478\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em>,<\/a> Valee explained his thoughts on his \u201cTwo 16s\u201d flow \u2014 also a Z Money song \u2014 becoming the most imitated in 2018. \u201cThere\u2019s probably someone that can do it well, but I haven\u2019t heard it yet. That\u2019s probably the part that I don\u2019t want to hear. I like the fact that I hear it being imitated. They won\u2019t say anything clever enough, so that makes it OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/valee-z-money-still-got-money-773405\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Valee and Z Money. Like the men before them, the two Chicago rappers have the type of undeniable chemistry that warrants a buddy cop franchise \u2014 tentative name:\u00a0Two 16s. Consider their latest video, \u201cStill Got Money\u201d the perfect audition tape. On record and in song, [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791607","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 22:10:42","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}