U.K. Rapper Kid Bookie and Slipknot’s Corey Taylor have been in each other’s orbit for years, and their on-record their tag-team continues with the release of a rap-metal track called “Blame.”
Coming in the wake of earlier collabs like “Stuck in My Ways” and “Game,” Bookie and Corey’s latest mic-passing effort is described in a press release as “a searing exploration of accountability, growth, and self-reflection,” and accordingly finds the two expressing remorse and personal evolution through bars, croons and a couple hearty howls.
“Over the years, facing myself and the reflection that comes with the mirror isn’t always an easy one,” Kid Bookie said in a statement. “Accountability is the removal of ego and pride to see beyond your own nose, to allow yourself the room to grow via ownership of your actions. I’m around some of the best people who practice that in more ways than one.”
Kid Bookie added that the latest team-up is “new territory, but [a] familiar approach to make sure we embolden each other through music.”
“This song is almost a therapy session for me, and not just via my own lyrics, but to how Corey has made me feel by exposing himself so bare in this record,” he said, adding that it is “truly an honor to keep pushing the envelope with someone who has just pushed it as far as it can go.”
Corey Taylor added: “Books is one of my favorite people, not just artists, and every time he comes to me with an opportunity to create with him, I’m always excited because I know I’m going to hear something I’ve never heard before. ‘Blame’ was so good the first time I heard it, I signed on without even knowing what I’d do!”
You can check out a visualized for “Blame” up above.