KingJu1c3 & AcWolf open summer with a hip-hop vacation track, “What You Came For”
By Kurt Beyers
With summer season coming on, the hip-hop/R&B duo KingJu1c3 and AcWolf have crafted a chill, laid-back hip-hop track called “What You Came For” to get people up for the season’s fun.
KingJu1c3 says the idea behind it is “like a trip to Vegas.”
AcWolf takes a more metaphysical view. The song, he says, “dives into a state of heightened self-awareness.”
So "What You Came For" is already available, released on June 13th.
“Say you go to Vegas for a weekend to have fun, or go on a bender,” said KingJu1c3, “and then you go home and what happened in Vegas stayed in Vegas. That’s what the song is about.”
“The protagonist observes the inauthenticity of social interactions, their mind a kaleidoscope of thoughts as they navigate these superficial exchanges,” said AcWolf.
Sometimes I fly like just want to vibe out
Let go
Wave
Grab another cup pour me something cuz I’m fly
I been sitting wit my day ones
Its how we ride by
The melodies are soft and dreamy, the beat quiet but insistent, driving the lyrics along.
“When you’re there, it’s crazy,” said KingJu1c3. “But when you come back home, it’s like, ‘All right. We’re cool. Back to business.’”
“Despite the facade,” said AcWolf, “a sense of knowing cuts through, unveiling the hidden motives of those around them. The song then takes a turn towards euphoria as the protagonist finds their crew, reveling in the authenticity and shared excitement of being ‘all up’ together.”
I know I know
Said I'm lit tho
I know I know
I said we Up!
KingJu1c3 and AcWolf, long-time friends, also released “Massi” last year.
KingJu1c3, a combat veteran of the U.S. armed forces, has been singing, writing and making music since age 14 or 15. In high school, he says, music was something “on the side.”
After high school, he joined the military, came back, earned a master’s degree and then, just about the time he was starting to take music seriously, the pandemic happened. His music career, like so much else around the world, was interrupted.
“Basically, I took a break, and now I’m starting back up and getting back into music,” he said.
Now 35, Ju1c3 said, “If I were to condense it to how long I’ve been doing music nonstop, I would say about five years.”
He is from Bellflower, California, one of the suburbs of Los Angeles. In his bio, he says that his music explores “the paradoxes and complexities of the human experience,” and he puts into his rhymes “the pain and struggles of war, navigating life after service, and the resilience of the human spirit.”
AcWolf is from Inglewood, a few miles west and closer to the coast. He says he infuses his music with spirituality, “challenging listeners to rise to higher vibrations.” His life has been marked by the challenges of adversity and gang life, bringing him to a determination “to lead and guide others toward a knowledge of God” and help them in their search for inspiration and growth.
“The wave of life is our own creation, a ride shaped by our choices,” he said. “Embrace it all, the crests and the crashes, for it’s how we carve our own journey. “
Ju1c3’s underground hip-hop is based in what he calls the “raw emotion of ’90s R&B and the gritty beats of early 2000s hip hop.” His music invites listeners to “step into the shadows and face the darkness and the light.”
His earlier work was more focused on the R&B spectrum of his vocal work — singing instead of rapping. He is turning now more toward hip-hop.
Ideally, he said, he and AcWolf want to perform more and get a record deal and professional management. “What You Came For” is the introduction.
“We think it can be one of those summer jams that can be one of the two or three songs that are always playing on the radio, that people are like, ‘You can’t get enough of it,’ which is why it ends on a cliffhanger that makes you want to play it again.”
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