LL Cool J is back and on Friday he dropped his latest single off of his upcoming album ‘FORCE’.
According to PEOPLE the single is a sultry track called “Proclivities” featuring Saweetie.
The new song — defined by the rapper as “a habitual attraction to some activity or thing” — arrived with an equally seductive visual set against an after-dark moment reminiscent of LL Cool J’s classic ’90s video for “Doin’ It.”
The new visual opens with the rapper and a Carnival-dressed woman making an entrance in a dimly-lit after-hours spot.
The former is dressed head-to-toe in all black and glistening with bling adorning his wrists and neck as he raps sexily:
“Damn baby, I don’t know if you dance or not / I’d love to see you on the pole / I don’t know if you conservative or if you a freak / But I’d love to see you lose control.”
A scantily-clad Saweetie, 31 — wearing a rhinestone-covered bra and feathered coverings — then comes in for the song’s chorus, melodically rapping:
“So what you gon’ do with it? / And my face and my waist so ooh with it / ooh let me tell you my proclivities for coming outside.”
“Proclivities” is the third single off of LL Cool J’s The FORCE — his 14th studio album and first in 11 years — following “Saturday Night Special” and “Passion,” which both dropped in July. According to a press release, the upcoming LP is produced entirely by A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip. Its title, FORCE (which stands for Frequencies of Real Creative Energy), represents “years of intense work,” which LL Cool J likens to “learning how to rap again.”
“It’s like a director going back to film school after he’s had blockbusters,” he shared in a statement, or “Denzel going back to acting class.”
The album — which intends to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first record label LL Cool J signed to in the ’80s, Def Jam Recordings — features a ton of collaborations with Snoop Dogg, Nas, Eminem, Busta Rhymes, Rick Ross and Fat Joe, to name a few.
It releases in full on Sept. 6.
