KXNG Crooked talks his Verse of the year.
HNHH has recently started a new “12 Days of Christmas” interview series and their first guest was the legendary KXNG Crooked. On the show, he talks about the challenges he faced during COVID, protests in the US, Slaughterhouse, working with Russ, and much more.
He was also about the one particular verse from him that he felt would be submitted to the Verse of the Year competition. He named his verse with Eminem on “Music To Be Murdered By” and the recent Russ joint, which are probably his best out of 30 plus verses he did this year. “Yo, dawg. So my fans told me it was cool for me to call them “fans”[Laughs],” says KXNG Crooked. “They told me that I did 30 something features, indie features this year. 35, 36, probably more. But there are a lot of standout verses out there from me. Em, “I Will” on Music To Be Murdered By. That right there, I feel that’s the bar of the year. I feel like the Abraham Lincoln bar, “Ay bruh, I go ham for dead presidents. John Wilkes, that’s who I’m in the booth like.” The whole scheme, I just feel like nobody really tied all of that together as well. There’s been some lines about that, but I feel like that was the best that has been tied together.”
KXNG continues, “Let me tell you, some of my punchlines and metaphors and similes, sometimes somebody builds on it and they make it better. I am like, “Why didn’t I think about that?” But on this particular one, I think that’s the bar of the year, the “Ay bruh, I go ham,” that’s the bar of the year. Verse of the year contender, ’cause there’s a lot of dope ass verses out there, you know what I’m sayin’, from a lot of titans and some Jedis came out to play this year. We got blessed. I would say the Russ joint ain’t too shabby. You know, the joint with Russ, the “Stockholm Syndrome” joint. What else, dawg? I rap with a lot of people this year. I got one with Sa Roc, but it hasn’t dropped yet. That verse is crazy. I’ma go with the Russ right now as a contender. But I got some things that are still coming that, oh my God bro. I need everyone to hurry and send their features back so I can drop.”
Crooked added about Em, “Eminem is always in the talks. I don’t care, they love to hate him. And a lot of people have been trying to push my homie out of the culture. They been making sly remarks – people with platforms. And this ain’t just me speaking from a homeboy level, this me speaking from a fan and a technician myself.”
Check out the full interview below via HNHH.
