Chance The Rapper x Kaytranada = 🔥?

Last September, Chance The Rapper told fans that he'd given his track They Say to Kaytranada for a tweak and a pinch, after which it'd be ready for release. That release, he said, was coming "soon".

This was news to Kaytranada who posted the following message to Twitter, presumably after being deluged with messages about the song.

i don't have the final version of "And They Say" so Leave Me Alone for now

— KAYTRANADA (@KAYTRANADA) September 26, 2016

Well, just eight short months later, the Canadian producer has finally gotten around to finishing whatever it was he was doing to the song - and it has premiered on Pharrell's OTHERtone program on Beats 1 Radio.

Was it worth the wait? Put it this way, you can see why it was left off the tracklisting for Chance's Grammy-nominated mixtape, Coloring Book. The central lyric is: "What they say? They say 'ner, ner, ner, n-ner, ner, ner, ne, ner.'" (although there's a great bit about cursing "like a chimney" in the verse).

Still, it's a slick, summery production with, in typical Chance fashion, a gospel choir towards the end. Back when singles had b-sides, this would have been hailed as a great b-side. Now, it's just another track that's appeared on the internet for some reason.

You can listen to a radio rip below, because 2017.

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New music: Alicia Keys vs Kaytranada

Swizz Beats has just updated his official Soundcloud page with a new track by Alicia Keys and Kaytranada...

Called Sweet F'in Love, it's a blissed-out soul jam - with Keys riffing various interpretations of the line "I'm talking about sweet, sweet f'in love" over a lazy piano figure and some of Kaytranada's trademark wobbly synths.

It's not clear whether the song is an off-cut from Alicia Keys' superlative 2016 album Here; or a brand new track. Either way, it's a euphoric beauty.

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