Quavo and Lenny Kravitz Update 1998 Hit for New Single ‘Fly’
Fresh off working with Lana Del Rey on “Tough,” Quavo has collaborated with another L-named rock star, this time Lenny Kravitz, who updates his hit “Fly Away” for the new single “Fly.”
The pair, who connected earlier this year when Quavo honored Kravitz at a Black Music Collective event, also dropped a Jake Nava-directed music video for the track:
At that BMC tribute to Kravitz, Quavo was among the artists — along with George Clinton, Earth, Wind & Fire’s Verdine White, and Andrew Watt, one of the producers on “Fly” — who performed “Fly Away,” planting the seeds for the new single.
In addition to sampling the riff from the 1998 single, Kravitz also contributed newly recorded vocals to the track, both on the song’s well-known chorus as well as joining Quavo on some verses.
“Put some feathers on my drip ’cause I’m fly,” the duo sing together. “Diamonds twinkle every time I’m outside / They almost brighter than the stars and the ice.”
Zoë Kravitz Opens Up About Life with Her Very Famous Parents
Between Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, the Blink Twice director grew up in two very distinct households.
Ever wonder what it’s like to grow up as the child of famous parents? That’s the world that Zoë Kravitz entered in 1988, right before the separation of her megastar father and mother, Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet. For the first decade of her life, Kravitz lived with her mother in Santa Monica, California, where she was raised in a highly creative environment with no TV, no Internet, and a strict, home-cooked vegan diet. But as Kravitz tells Esquire in our latest cover story, living with her rockstar father “was this whirlwind of a completely different universe.”
Life with dad was Kravitz’s first taste of fame, and while it came with its perks—like TV access and sweets—it was also a bit overwhelming. Naturally, Kravitz was forced to grow up fast. As the Blink Twice director tells Esquire, she could “smell it out pretty quickly” if someone had less than good intentions, while her father could never tell anyone no. “I had to when I was a kid, because he didn’t,” she reveals. “He’s really trusting, and it’s sweet, but I can tell exactly what someone wants.”
But living with her father in Miami was difficult as well. Her family is half Black and half Jewish, which is something kids at school often couldn’t grasp. “People were confused,” she says. “How are you Jewish if you’re Black? If both of your parents are Black, how are you half white?” Often it led to Kravitz minimizing her own Blackness. So she asked her father if they could relocate to New York City. There she felt safe. “It was weirdos like me,” she says.
After the move, her father embarked on a long tour. “I think it was very hurtful that I moved away from [my mother] to be with my dad and my dad wasn’t even there,” Kravitz admits. “I just wish I had been able to appreciate what she was doing for me. She was so focused on preserving my innocence. My creativity. Because she knew what the world is—that you don’t get that back…. You want to grow up so fast, and then you get out there and you realize, Oh, shit.”
You’ll have an “Oh, shit” feeling of your own if you see Kravitz’s new thriller, Blink Twice, in theaters on August 23. In her directorial debut, a cocktail waitress is whisked away to a billionaire’s private island, only to find that there is something very wrong about her new situation when her friend disappears. But Kravitz doesn’t want to give too much away. “I feel like my brain is being exposed to the world,” she tells Esquire. “I should just be quiet and let people experience the movie.”
