Kid Bookie drops new single with Corey Taylor, Blame

Kid Bookie has unleashed a brand-new single with Corey Taylor, Blame.

The pair’s latest collab – following 2019’s Stuck In My Ways and 2022’s Game, and not forgetting last year’s Get Out with Corey’s son Griffin – reportedly gears things up for the arrival of Bookie’s next studio album, which will come out later this year according to a press release.

“Over the years, facing myself and the reflection that comes with the mirror isn’t always an easy one,” Bookie shares of the meaning behind Blame. “Accountability is the removal of ego and pride to see beyond your own nose, to allow yourself the room to grow via ownership of your actions. I’m around some of the best people who practise that in more ways than one.

“Corey and I have been working with each other for nearly a decade, but I feel this record is a coming of age, even for us. New territory, but familiar approach to make sure we embolden each other through music. This song is almost a therapy session for me, and not just via my own lyrics, but to how Corey has made me feel by exposing himself so bare in this record, truly an honour to keep pushing the envelope with someone who has just pushed it as far as it can go, but has completely revamped what the envelope fucking is.”

“Books is one of my favourite people, not just artists, and every time he comes to me with an opportunity to create with him, I’m always excited because I know I’m going to hear something I’ve never heard before,” adds the Slipknot legend. “Blame was so good the first time I heard it, I signed on without even knowing what I’d do! I’m proud of the song, and I’m proud of him, and grateful to be involved.”

Listen to Blame below:

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