Lil Tjay and Fivio Foreign share drill rework of Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’
nme.comLil Tjay and Fivio Foreign have flipped Wham!‘s iconic 1986 song ‘Last Christmas’ into a rambunctious drill song.Tjay and Foreign have been friends for some time.
The latter even credited the former for getting his deal at Columbia Records in a 2020 interview with esteemed radio personality Angie Martinez.
They have collaborated seven times, the most popular being the Pop Smoke-assisted ‘Zoo York’ from Tjay’s ‘State Of Emergency’ EP.Now, the New York duo have dropped ‘Last Christmas’, following the ongoing sample drill trend with Tjay and Foreign’s verses showing a different perspective to the George Michael-sung song – this time portraying themselves as the other party who stole the hearts of partners already spoken for.The Brooklynites go on to boast about how much better they are compared to their ladies’ other flings: “She a lover girl, still not a ho / Love her man, but she feelin’ the kid.”In the music video, you can see Tjay having fun around a ski resort; relaxing in pyjamas around a Christmas tree, driving expensive cars and going tubing.
Foreign is nowhere to be seen because, according to the music video, he missed his flight and couldn’t make the shoot.Tjay and Foreign are not the first to cover ‘Last Christmas’ this year.
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