New rap star ended the video by teasing his next single, “Can You Please?”
Gelo is ready for a club night. On Thursday, basketball player-turned-overnight musical sensation LiAngelo Ball dropped a video for his recent single “Tweakers,” featuring his brothers Lonzo and LaMelo as they ride in an obnoxiously yellow jeep before entering a nightclub.
“I might swerve, bend that corner, woah/Bitch, hold on tight ’cause I’ll tweak in this bitch, start lettin’ shit go,” raps Gelo on the song’s chorus. “And I heard that she wanna show/Me who she be, I’m kinda fuckin’ with it, show me some more.”
The video ends with him being interrogated and getting asked by a reporter: “So, what’s next,” before Gelo teases a single titled “Can You Please?”
The track marks his first single since signing with Def Jam, which reportedly brought him on with a $13 million deal. Rolling Stone‘s Andre Gee described Ball’s song as a “sign of where rap might be heading.”
“LiAngelo went undrafted in the 2018 NBA Draft, but as a viral personality with a chart-topping hit and a household name, he’s what amounts to a blue-chip prospect in the modern music market,” Gee wrote.
Gelo spoke to Billboard about the song recently, saying he “couldn’t wait” to make it after finding its melody. “Then I went and made it and it turned out to what it was. Played it the whole way home,” he said. “Told my homies, told my brothers like, ‘Yeah, watch out bro — this shit hard.’”
The song debuted at Number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 after dropping on Jan. 3 and continues to stay in the Top 40 of the chart.
