{"id":804937,"date":"2020-03-05T22:32:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T05:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=962967"},"modified":"2020-03-05T22:32:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T05:32:03","slug":"cupcakke-unleashes-new-song-lawd-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/cupcakke-unleashes-new-song-lawd-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Cupcakke Unleashes New Song \u2018Lawd Jesus\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cupcakke.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cupcakke\/\">Cupcakke<\/a> has returned with her first solo single since last July, a biting track called \u201cLawd Jesus.\u201d On the song, the rapper discusses shedding old ways for a new outlook as she continues to succeed, but her past seems to try to continue to hold her down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFuck all my old friends, I\u2019m not tryna make amends,\u201d she raps, with a \u201cLawd Jesus\u201d refrain repeated during the chorus. \u201cI said, \u2018Mama, chill, we gonna win\u2019\/Money keep comin\u2019 in\/I\u2019m tryna change from back then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cupcakke released two albums in 2018 \u2014 <em>Ephorize&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>Eden<\/em> \u2014 followed by just a few singles in 2019, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cupcakke-new-song-squidward-nose-777369\/\">\u201cSquidward Nose,\u201d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cupcakke-bird-box-new-song-803972\/\">\u201cBird Box,\u201d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cupcakke-ayesha-curry-new-song-854012\/\">\u201cAyesha\u201d<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cupcakke-old-town-road-lil-nas-x-remix-823744\/\">filthy \u201cOld Town Road\u201d remix<\/a>. Most recently, she appeared on a remix of the track \u201cRipe\u201d from Australian artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/banoffee-charli-xcx-interview-960670\/\">Banoffee\u2019s<\/a> debut album&nbsp;<em>Look at Us Now Dad<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago rapper announced that she would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/cupcakke-cancels-shows-after-saying-shes-retiring-from-music\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">retiring from music<\/a> on Instagram Live in 2019, only to return and reveal that she had signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/news\/2019\/12\/cupcakke-8-million-dollar-deal-label\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">an $8 million deal<\/a> in a now-deleted tweet. She\u2019ll be playing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cupcakke_rapper\/status\/1222923671066550272\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a live show<\/a> in Brooklyn on April 4th.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cupcakke-lawd-jesus-962967\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cupcakke has returned with her first solo single since last July, a biting track called \u201cLawd Jesus.\u201d On the song, the rapper discusses shedding old ways for a new outlook as she continues to succeed, but her past seems to try to continue to hold her down. \u201cFuck all my old friends, I\u2019m not tryna [&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-804937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 21:39:50","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\/804937","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=804937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}