City Girls flip LL Cool J on new single "I Need A Thug”

LL’s “I Need Love” gets sampled on the first taste of JT and Yung Miami’s as-yet unnamed third album.

June 08, 2023
City Girls flip LL Cool J on new single "I Need A Thug” JT (left) and Yung Miami (right) of City Girls attend the 2021 BET Awards. Photo by Paras Griffin / Getty Images.  

Hot off their Diddy/Fabolous collab "Act Bad," City Girls have released their first music of 2023 as lead artist. "I Need A Thug" is prime song of the summer material and a taste of JT and Yung Miami's unnamed third studio album.

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The song flips LL Cool J's "I Need Love" over an 808-heavy beat for City Girls to run down a laundry list of exactly what they're looking for (“Bonnie and Clyde shit, tongue-kissing in cop cars") and what they're not (scrubs, mostly). Listen below.

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City Girls flip LL Cool J on new single "I Need A Thug”