CHUNE

Riddim: N/A

Producer: Mucky, Toddla T

Let’s just nip any nostalgia bias in the bud right now and run back a crowd-pleaser from 2019. UK rapper Wiley started with a good dancehall-inflected song, then called some friends and turned it into a legitimately great one, with a video to match. Sean Paul and Stefflon Don do what they’ve done so many times, only for Idris Elba—yes, Stringer Bell—to bat cleanup with a verse that hits harder than it should. “Man a king, mi nuh talk bout Larry / man a big DJ, ask Meghan and Harry.” Luther!

Additional Listening:

• Stefflon Don goes off live with a healthy dash of slackness: “badman fi forward, wasteman pull up/mi nuh waan bruk cocky man inna mi gut”

• Idris Elba recruits General Levy and Naomi Cowan for the drum-n-bass-adjacent “We Run the Area”