French Montana enlisted Harlem's finest, A$AP Rocky, on the "Off the Rip" remix. Along with N.O.R.E. and the late Chinx, the Rocky feature on the remix keeps the citywide lineup for the New York anthem.
Montana dropped "Off the Rip" at the end of April and it's since become one of his biggest hits to date. It appeared on his May mixtape Casino Life 2: Brown Bag Legend and is set to appear on his upcoming second studio album, Mac & Cheese: The Album.
Unlike the album's other singles, like "Lose It," featuring Rick Ross and Lil Wayne, and "Moses," with Chris Brown and Migos, Montana stayed in New York for his features, recruiting Queens veteran N.O.R.E and Far Rockaway's Chinx. The track was released just a few weeks before the Coke Boys rapper was murdered in Queens. Montana, along with other NYC rap legends, paid tribute to Chinx in the music video, which dropped at the end of June.
"Off the Rip" has been one of the songs of the summer in New York, and though Montana keeps things in the city for the remix, the high-profile Rocky feature should give the track the nationwide hype it deserves. There's no word on whether the original or the new version with Rocky will end up on Mac & Cheese.
On his verse, Rocky shouts out his and French's Uptown hoods, and pays tribute to both Chinx and A$AP Mob founder A$AP Yams, who was found dead in January.
"Lord Pretty Flacko remix it off the rip / Do it for the west side, 125th / Do it for the South Bronx, my n*ggas on the strip / RIP to Chinx and shout outs my n*gga French / Met a b*tch with this n*gga Yams tatted on her t*t," he raps.
