Erykah Badu remixes Kanye West on new offering "Trill Friends"
12 January 2016, 16:24
| Written by
Laurence Day
Erykah Badu reworks Kanye West's latest track "Real Friends" as a new single called "Trill Friends".
The cut will reportedly feature on a new tape from Badu titled THIS $h!t TOO EASY.
As well as utilising the instrumentals from Kanye's "Real Friends", Badu samples Whodini’s 1984 track “Friends".
The description on Soundcloud reads: "JUST ride out to this... TRILL FRIENDS REMIX of REAL FRIENDS by KANYE WEST what up yeezy? BADU MESSIN ROUND THIS MORNIN (really suppose be recording something else ...) presently in the BADUDIO w/ ZACH WITNESS DALLAS, TEXAS , USA."
Kanye's long-awaited new album SWISH is set to be released on 11 February.
Stream "Trill Friends" below.
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