{"id":806509,"date":"2020-04-17T12:32:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T18:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=986060"},"modified":"2020-04-17T12:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T18:32:29","slug":"21-savage-may-be-an-rb-singer-stuck-in-a-rappers-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/21-savage-may-be-an-rb-singer-stuck-in-a-rappers-body\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Savage May Be an R&amp;B Singer Stuck in a Rapper\u2019s Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/21Savage.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/21-savage\/\">21 Savage<\/a> loves a good slow jam. Among the Atlanta rapper\u2019s many quirks is his propensity to hop on Instagram Live and sing R&amp;B classics, like Aaliyah\u2019s cover of the Isley Brothers\u2019 \u201cAt Your Best (Let Me Know)\u201d to Diddy, Usher, and Loon\u2019s 2002 hit, \u201cI Need A Girl (Part 1)\u201d in an off-key, yet entertaining, falsetto squeal. What makes the ritual more endearing is that it doesn\u2019t seem at all performative: For all of 21 Savage\u2019s deadpanned lyrics about intense violence, he seems to adore the emotional complexity of R&amp;B.<\/p>\n<p>On his latest single, \u201cSecret,\u201d 21 teams up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/summer-walker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Summer Walker<\/a> and&nbsp;tries to recapture some of that magic of yore by rapping over a sample of Xscape\u2019s 1998 song, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iDHggk9NlN8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">My Little Secret<\/a>.\u201d It\u2019s a hard pivot.<\/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\/9rqymg9hLF8?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>21 Savage\u2019s voice is often delivered at a monotone, a near-emotionless void that helps lend gravitas to his intense stories of pain and poverty. \u201cSecret,\u201d in contrast, is a love story featuring Savage\u2019s penchant for lyrical specificity. Throughout his two verses, 21 describes his partner in exacting detail. She has dark skin with brown eyes, is 5\u2032 8,\u201d and drives a broken down Kia. The couple has known each other since sixth grade and, at one point, Savage tried to hide a gun in her book-bag. Even at his most heartfelt, he still sounds slightly menacing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecret\u201d may not be the classic rap and R&amp;B crossover that Savage would sacrifice his favorite knife to have in his collection, but it\u2019s a start. R&amp;B Rome wasn\u2019t built in a day.<\/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\/utZqm5bZSrA?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<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\/21-savage-summer-walker-secret-986060\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 Savage loves a good slow jam. Among the Atlanta rapper\u2019s many quirks is his propensity to hop on Instagram Live and sing R&amp;B classics, like Aaliyah\u2019s cover of the Isley Brothers\u2019 \u201cAt Your Best (Let Me Know)\u201d to Diddy, Usher, and Loon\u2019s 2002 hit, \u201cI Need A Girl (Part 1)\u201d in an off-key, yet [&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-806509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 19:37:17","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\/806509","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=806509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}