{"id":610599,"date":"2026-07-29T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/610599\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:38:08","slug":"mgk-and-yuki-chiba-team-up-for-new-single-jjk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/610599\/","title":{"rendered":"mgk and Yuki Chiba Team Up For New Single \u2018JJK\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/genre\/mgk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>mgk<\/strong><\/a> and celebrated Japanese rapper Yuki Chiba have teamed up for a new single entitled \u201cJJK.\u201d The track arrives alongside a music video directed by Sam Cahill that features the duo exploring Japanese-inspired temples.<\/p>\n<p>Lyrically, mgk also pays homage to the culture of his collaborator. He\u2019ll be visiting Japan on tour at this summer\u2019s Summer Sonic 2026 in Osaka and Tokyo on August 14 \u2013 August 16. He raps: \u201cMob in Tokyo, curse assimilate, out the underworld, we originate\/ Chia, Fushiguro, all my dogs shikigami.\u201d The animated single artwork for \u201cJJK\u201d was designed by Maggiolina.<\/p>\n<p>The song comes at a very exciting time for mgk. Earlier this month, he announced the 2026 return of his Cleveland festival, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/news\/mgk-wiz-khalifa-headline-mgk-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MGK Day<\/strong><\/a>. Taking place on August 7 and 8, the two-day event is set to close with headlining sets from mgk and Wiz Khalifa.<\/p>\n<p>After MGK Day, mgk will head overseas to perform at Summer Sonic 2026 in Osaka and Tokyo. He\u2019ll then head to South Korea before traveling to South America. In the fall, he\u2019ll head to Mexico City\u2019s Estadio Fray Nano on September 3, before heading to Brazil for Rock in Rio on September 5 and one final lost americana performance in S\u00e3o Paulo on September 6.\n<\/p>\n<p>The MGK Day headlining news continues a long line of collaborations for the pop-punk star and Wiz Khalifa. mgk and Wiz spent the summer together on the wildly popular lost americana North American Tour.\n<\/p>\n<p>They also released their collaborative mixtape, blog era boyz, a nine-track project including the songs \u201cfamily &gt; everything,\u201d \u201ceverything tatted,\u201d \u201cgirl next door\u201d and \u201cpassport.\u201d The release, which was in support of their lost americana tour dates together, was highlighted by cuts like the aforementioned \u201cgirl next door,\u201d which was produced by frequent mgk collaborators SlimXX, BazeXX, and No Love For The Middle Child. It samples indie electronic duo Sweet Trip, and when it was released as the first blog era boyz single, it marked mgk and Wiz Khalifa\u2019s first song together since their 2013 track \u201cMind of a Stoner.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mgkandyukichiba.lnk.to\/JJK?utm_campaign=products&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=udiscovermusic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><b>Listen to mgk and Yuki Chiba\u2019s \u201cJJK\u201d here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"mgk and celebrated Japanese rapper Yuki Chiba have teamed up for a new single entitled \u201cJJK.\u201d The track&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[8313,18,117,2873,47519,19,17,257792,45144,337,257793],"class_list":["post-610599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-alternative","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-homepage-featured","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jjk","tag-mgk","tag-music","tag-yuki-chiba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117005432450120056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}