JOEY COOL Serves Up New Single “Franchise” With Y2

STRANGE MUSIC ARTIST JOEY COOL SERVES UP NEW SINGLE “FRANCHISE” WITH Y2 AVAILABLE TODAY

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November 7, 2025 (Los Angeles, CA) – Thriving as a force of nature in the game, rising rap phenom Joey Cool serves up a new single entitled “Franchise” with Y2 out now via Strange Music. Listen HERE.

The track showcases the distinct nuances of Joey’s simultaneously inventive and infectious signature style. Backed by bells, glitchy claps, and head-nodding drums, he switches up his tone and projects clear confidence with lines like, “I am the writer, producer, and editor, I cut a new documentary,” going on to assure, “I been around for a minute, and I’m’a be here for a couple of centuries.” Between staccato verses, he makes a promise of “Staying faithful to the franchise” on the chorus. Elsewhere, Y2 pulls up and drops lyrical heat of his own. The track’s impressive verbal acrobatics and raw energy prove uncontainable and undeniable.

It lands in the wake of the recent “Talk That Shit.” The music video for the latter impressively exploded with 1.2 million YouTube views indicative of the buzz and excitement surrounding Cool’s next era.

Last year, he dropped Roller Coaster, which cumulatively clocked millions of streams and earned acclaim from Hip Hop Over Everything, I’m Music Magazine, and more. It boasted fan favorites such as “Crawl Space” [feat. Tech N9ne & Matt Phoenix], “Vibe Check,” and “Heat” [feat. Doobie].

In 2021, Joey Cool joined forces with Tech N9ne, King Iso, and the legendary Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for the biggest independent rap song of that year, “Face Off.” Its success would be downright unprecedented, birthing a TikTok challenge and amassing over 13 billion views! The track has crushed nearly 218 million Spotify streams so far with 89 million views on the blockbuster music video. The track saw him mentioned by everyone from Variety to Entertainment Weekly.

Get ready for more from Joe Cool soon.

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With impenetrable flows, hypnotic hooks, and debonair flair, Joey Cool persists an outlier through and through. From the jump, the Kansas City phenomenon has mined influences as diverse as R&B, big band, rock ‘n’ roll, alternative, and rap. “I’ve got a Frank Sinatra tattoo on my arm, and I’m from the Midwest,” he grins. “I’m a little different.”

Thus far, he has ignited a string of fan favorite projects. Hailed as “a hidden gem,” HipHopDX rated his 2018 self-titled solo debut “4.0-out-of-5.0.” Following Coolie High [2020] and I tried to be normal once [2021], he reached another stratosphere on The Chairman of the Board [2022]. Of the latter, Legends Will Never Die raved, “he sounds a lot more confident on here as he leaves no room for questions regarding his current status,” and Hip Hop Golden Age applauded it as “some of his most confident writing and performances to date.” Underground Hip Hop Blog summed it up best as “Joey Cool’s most confident effort yet.”

In between, he shined on Tech N9ne’s “Face Off” alongside King Iso and the legendary Dwayne Johnson. The song has amassed hundreds of millions of streams, 14.6 billion TikTok views, and received plugs from Variety, USA Today, People, HYPEBEAST, and many more. In its wake, Joey hit the road with Tech, ¡MAYDAY!, and Iso. Now, he goes even harder with a dynamic, diverse, and definitive opus in the form of his seventh full-length album, due out this coming Spring!