‘Fried Rice’ is a nod to New York City where Bas was raised after leaving Paris, France when he was just a child. It’s interesting that these two artists are collaborating together because as the story goes, Bas helped discover J.I.D. The latter performed during Bas’s Atlanta show back in 2014, and J.I.D impressed Bas so much that he and his team couldn’t help but tell J. Cole about the southern artist. Cole checked him out, eventually added him to the Dreamville roster, and the rest is history—or should we say, history in the making.
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