The rapper/singer stakes his claim to GOAT status on album four

Ever since he started out, King has performed a balancing act between romantic pop and flex-heavy rap. But on his fourth full-length album New Life—first conceptualised by the rapper/singer back in 2019—he pulls off his finest tricks yet. Armed with polished production and big-ticket international and Indian collaborators, he crafts his most commercially appealing and most experimental material to date. “Sarkaare” and “High Hukku” are irresistible takes on 1990s Bollywood, while on “CROWN” and “We Are The Ones”—the latter featuring Gucci Mane—he spits bars that rattle as hard as the bass that boosts them.