Chingy is teaming up with country duo Meg and Tyler to release a catchy new tune — and it even has a dance.
The star, 40, is behind countless hits from the early aughts, including “One Call Away” and “Pullin’ Me Back.” He tells PEOPLE “The Whoa Down,” which drops Friday, is an exciting mash-up of the trio’s hip hop, pop and country music backgrounds. The R&B singer says that after his cousin began working on a music project in Nashville alongside The Voice alum Meghan Linsey and her collaborator fiancé Tyler Cain, the song came about almost instantly.
“Somebody told Meg and Tyler that I was his cousin, so they said something to him and Stan was like, ‘You should go down to Nashville and just vibe with Meg and Tyler,'” the award-winner tells PEOPLE. “We ended up going to Nashville and that morning I had an idea in my head for a track. I had the beat in my mind, so when we got to Meg and Tyler’s, I told Tyler to let me get on the drum machine and let me lay this rhythm section down for the track. Then, Tyler played the guitar.”
PEOPLE has the exclusive premiere of “The Whoa Down” music video which includes a tutorial for viewers to join in on the trio’s dancing fun shortly before the three-minute mark.
“The Whoa Down” isn’t the only new project for the rapper. Although he’ll “still have the Chingy records that people can dance to,” he’ll be releasing his “conscious project” — the EP Crown Jewel — this summer.
“It’s called that because the crown jewel is what people call the third eye — the pineal gland, the thalamus up in there. I call it the first eye because it’s the eye that gave birth to the two physical eyes,” he says of his upcoming release. “That’s where the crown jewel aspect comes from, because I see with that eye so it’s going to be a little more substance.”
His EP will feature collaborations with Twista and Bobby Valentino, hip hop and R&B stars respectively.
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