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Earlier this week it was announced that Wale, Big Boi, and a bunch of other rappers, hip-hop artists, and Latin-music artists had been hired by HBO to make a Game of Thrones-inspired mixtape. The project, which HBO says is an attempt “to reach out to the show’s, urban, ‘multicultural’ audience, a demographic that includes African-Americans and Latinos,” dropped today and, well, it’s not terrible!
Catch the Throne certainly has its hits and misses, but Wale’s contribution, “King Slayer,” is a fun, if not silly track, sampling the show’s signature theme song to make it sound extra grandiose. The lyrics, however, are as empty and lacking as expected: “I’m tellin’ whoever messin’ with me/I can bring you that Khaleesi heat/Use my King, knack for words, as an actual sword/I can decapitate a rapper…”
Still, it’s Game of Thrones.
Check it out below: