MERRY JANE

If you caught Marvelโ€™s Luke Cage on Netflix, you might remember one of the showโ€™s coolest moments: the showโ€™s villain, Cottonmouth, is alone on the second floor of his nightclub, Harlemโ€™s Paradise, with another bad guy, Shades. Paradise is empty, all except for Jidenna, who is below performing his song, โ€œHail to the Chief,โ€ just for Cottonmouth.

For millions of people, this was the first time they may have ever heard of Jidenna, and itโ€™s quite the introductionโ€”the song is so good that it is played in its entirety while the camera cuts to many of the main characters. After the show’s debut, โ€œHail to the Chiefโ€ earned more than a 2,000 percent jump in streams on Spotify. This helped to propel Jidennaโ€™s emergence as one of the most sophisticated (and not to mention, dapper) artists out there.

Snoop caught up with the Classic Man himself for this weekโ€™s edition of GGN to talk about Jidennaโ€™s life in Nigeria, his time at Stanford, and how he turns to Janelle Monรกe and the rest of the Wondaland Records crew to help him critique his music.

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