King's Dead

"King's Dead" is a song by American rappers Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, and Future with English singer James Blake, from the soundtrack album of the Marvel Studios superhero film Black Panther and Jay Rock's third studio album Redemption.

It was released by Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records on January 11, 2018, as both the soundtrack's second single and as the lead single from Redemption. The song is Jay Rock's first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. The song, along with "Bubblin" by Anderson .Paak, won Best Rap Performance, and was nominated for Best Rap Song at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.

Reception
Briana Younger of Pitchfork gave the song a positive review, calling the song "fun and swaggering".

Music video
The music video for the song was released to Rock's Vevo channel on YouTube on February 15, 2018. It was directed by Dave Free and Jack Begert.

Remixes
On March 8, 2018, American rappers Joey Badass and XXXTentacion released a remix of the song.

Personnel
Credits adapted from digital booklet.

Performers

 * Jay Rock – vocals
 * Kendrick Lamar – vocals
 * Future – vocals
 * James Blake – vocals

Technical

 * Matt Schaeffer – record engineering, mix engineering
 * Mike Bozzi – master engineering
 * Eric Manco – record engineering

Production

 * Kendrick Lamar – production
 * Teddy Walton – production
 * Sounwave – additional production
 * 30 Roc – uncredited co-production
 * – uncredited co-production