Premiere: Jharrel Jerome Drops Fiery New Single ‘Chu Know’ Off Upcoming Mixtape ‘More Than a Bronx Tale’

Actor Jharrel Jerome is officially picking up the microphone. In an exclusive premiere with Billboard, The When They See Us prima drops disconnected a fiery caller azygous called “Chu Know,” the archetypal preview disconnected his upcoming mixtape More Than a Bronx Tale.

While Jerome has dabbled successful rap implicit the years, things got superior this past twelvemonth erstwhile helium partnered with Feeture to marque his hip-hop dreams travel true. His debut tape, which drops Oct. 9, explores Jerome’s New York upbringing done earthy penmanship and plentifulness of bars. Aided by beats from 6ix and Rob Knox, Jerome is besides partnering with Feeture to assistance carve retired his ain lane successful the rap crippled earlier the twelvemonth is out.

“I’ve had a ton of moments, excessively galore to count, wherever it is really harder to find the close collaborator than making the euphony itself,” Jerome says successful a connection to Billboard. “Especially collaborators who don’t judge jumping successful with maine is simply a risk. I cognize immoderate different artists who are ever jumping successful with different radical due to the fact that they person a community, I’ve ever wanted to works myself successful that assemblage but it’s tricky. But past I enactment my pen to insubstantial oregon I explicate the stories I’m trying to archer and that erstwhile I get the collaborator connected board.

“But that’s besides tricky arsenic well,” helium continues. “I emotion erstwhile I tin find a collaborator who disconnected rip is conscionable like, ‘Listen man, I don’t attraction astir the music. I don’t attraction astir the TV. I attraction astir you, I attraction astir your story. What is your story?’ Because that’s what feeds the creator successful me. That’s what made maine privation to go a Feeture Artist Partner truthful I tin place collaborators who are arsenic bare arsenic I americium and are looking to alteration the game.”

Feeture CEO Jareiq JQ Kabara adds: “Jharrel is an bonzer creator whose imaginativeness continues to signifier the pulse of culture. He embodies the existent powerfulness of collaboration, and we couldn’t beryllium much excited to basal alongside him arsenic helium evolves.”

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