On DJ Khaled’s last album Khaled Khaled, the track Where You Come From featuring Buju Banton, Barrington Levy, Capleton, and Bounty Killer had immense popularity among the dancehall audiences. These Streets Know My Name, is the follow up and it is one the standouts on God Did released by by We The Best / Epic Records.
Newcomer Skillibeng shines with some hardcore lyrics dismissing the narrative that he is a popcorn artist with nursery rhymes.
Buju Banton croons on the hook “These streets knows my naaame”, and Bounty Killer is back in form with the aggressive and poignant delivery from his My Experience Days.
Capleton is his usual up tempo firebrand which gives the track some additional 90s flavour and Sizzla is added for some more Rastafari razzle dazzle.
Matching all 5 talented artists one one track on paper is overwhelming, and may have seem like a stretch on Khaled’s part, but the Miami DJ has pretty much established his connection and commitment to include at least one dancehall track on each of his albums.
The beat is a mixture of haunting hip hop and dancehall with some parts reminiscent of production on Top Shotter with DMX, Mr. Vegas and Sean Paul from the Belly Movie Soundtrack produced by Tony Kelly, a signature dancehall kick-up sound from the 90s.
The song is produced by DJ Khaled, Nicholas Warwar, professionally known as STREETRUNNER, the American, Grammy Award winning, multi-platinum record producer from Miami, Florida & Tarik Azzouz (Jay-Z, Fabolous). All three produce multiple tracks on the album.
Already social media is marking These Streets Know My Name as a standout on Khaled’s 13th studio album which is predicted to debut is the top ten on the Billboard 200 chart next week. One person has called for the visuals “asap” and memes are already being created on social media as ‘DJ Khaled’ trends at No. 4 and “God Did” trends at No. 1 on twitter.
Check out a couple tweets below highlighting the song.
Omg These Streets Know My Name is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
— dgshowtime.io 👾🆙🚀 (@DGShowtime23) August 26, 2022
THESE STREETS KNOW MY NAME pic.twitter.com/rH8IbYQ33s
— Benjamin Button (@_JusteJessy) August 26, 2022
I’m gonna be screaming THESE STREETS KNOW MY NAME” all year cah they really do
— Bethel (@bethelx11) August 26, 2022
As for what it will do for the genres of reggae and dancehall, the streets will determine.
God Did Production Credits.
1. No Secret feat. Drake
Produced by DJ Khaled, Rex Kudo, Charlie Coffeen, Aaron Paris, Matt Spatola, Preme, Jason Lader & Sim Fane
2. God Did feat. Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, JAY-Z, John Legend & Fridayy
Produced by DJ Khaled, Fridayy, STREETRUNNER & Tarik Azzouz
3. Use This Gospel (Remix) feat. Kanye West, Eminem (prod. by Dr. Dre & The ICU)
Produced by Dr. Dre & The ICU, Timbaland, Federico Vindver & Angel López
4. Big Time feat. Future & Lil Baby
Produced by TM88, Rozay Knockin, Marko Lenz & Brook Beatz
5. Keep Going feat. Lil Durk, 21 Savage & Roddy Ricch
Produced by DJ Khaled, TM88, Slo Meezy, DJ Moon & Akachi
6. Party feat. Quavo and Takeoff
Produced by DJ Khaled, STREETRUNNER & Tarik Azzouz
7. Staying Alive feat. Drake & Lil Baby
Produced by Nyan & Tim Suby
8. Beautiful feat. Future & SZA
Produced by DJ Khaled, TM88 & KXVI
9. It Ain’t Safe feat. Nardo Wick and Kodak Black
Produced by DJ Khaled & Tay Keith
10. Let’s Pray feat. Don Toliver & Travis Scott
Produced by DJ Khaled, Tay Keith, Eza , Duce.6x & MIKE DEAN
11. Fam Good, We Good feat. Gunna & Roddy Ricch
Produced by DJ Khaled, STREETRUNNER, Mighty Max & Tarik Azzouz
12. Bills Paid feat. Latto & City Girls
Produced by DJ Khaled, STREETRUNNER, Sage & Tarik Azzouz
13. Way Past Luck feat. 21 Savage
Produced by STREETRUNNER, LENYZ, DJ Khaled & Tarik Azzouz
14. These Streets Know My Name feat. Skillibeng, Buju Banton, Capleton, Bounty Killer & Sizzla
Produced by DJ Khaled, STREETRUNNER & Tarik Azzouz
15. Juice WRLD Did feat. Juice WRLD
Produced by Nick Mira & Dorien Theus
16. Jadakiss Interlude feat. Jadakiss
Produced by DJ Khaled, STREETRUNNER & Tarik Azzouz
17. Asahd and Aalam Cloth Talk
Produced by DJ Khaled
18. Grateful feat. Vory
Produced by DJ Khaled, STREETRUNNER & Tarik Azzouz
