GloRilla and Kehlani unfold vacation cheer with new single, ‘Xmas Time’

GloRilla and Kehlani have teamed as much as launch the enjoyable Christmas-inspired ballad ‘Xmas Time’ forward of the vacations. Hear under.

Just lately, GloRilla teased the duo’s first-ever collaboration by importing movies to social media. On Instagram, she shared an animation of both artists as bobbleheads in a snow globe. “Good luck with yo Mrs dis as merry as I’m getting,” the rapper wrote within the caption. She then posted a video of her and Kehlani on set dancing to a mashup of Mariah Carey’s Quantity One smash ‘All I Need for Christmas is You’ and Glo’s ‘Whatchu Kno About Me’.

Now, ‘Xmas Time’ has lastly been launched with an accompanying efficiency video. Within the clip, the music begins with a sluggish and ethereal instrumental as the 2 are surrounded by a winter wonderland filled with snow, twinkling lights and Christmas bushes.

Kehlani kicks off the music by singing the refrain: “Perhaps that is all I want, moments like this with my household/ Nothing compares to the way it feels, Christmas time.”

GloRilla raps over the identical sluggish beat for her first verse, however – for her second – she picks up the tempo, turning ‘Xmas Time’ right into a menacing lure tune with jingle bell accents, rapping: “I’m out in that snow right this moment/ New toy seem like Santa’s sleigh.”

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The music comes two months after GloRilla launched her long-awaited debut album, ‘Superb’. In a three-star assessment, NME known as the file an “empowering if uneven” effort, including: “There are a handful of licensed hits and a bunch of questionable additions that recommend higher high quality management was wanted right here […] it’s nonetheless price a hear, even when it doesn’t stay as much as the expectations that her attention-grabbing singles beforehand set.”

Kehlani additionally shared their fourth studio album ‘Crash’ this June, which featured her viral dancehall-inspired lead single ‘After Hours’.

Each artists have been nominated for the 2025 Grammys. GloRilla is up for Finest Rap Track and Finest Rap Efficiency for ‘Yeah Glo!’. In the meantime, Kehlani obtained nods for Finest Progressive R&B Album (‘Crash’), Finest R&B Track (‘After Hours’) and Finest Melodic Rap Efficiency for his or her characteristic on the remix of ‘Kehlani’ by Jordan Adetunji.

In different information, Kehlani is about to embark on a UK and European tour subsequent yr with multi-genre DJ Keyrah and R&B newcomer KWN as their assist acts. Followers can see the total dates right here and buy any available tickets here.

In the meantime, GloRilla has two entries on NME‘s 50 greatest songs of 2024 checklist: her work on Tyler, The Creator‘s ‘Sticky’ landed the thirty ninth spot, and her summer season anthem with Megan Thee Stallion, ‘Wanna Be’, positioned at Quantity 24.