The Weekend and Playboi Carti Rewind the Clock With Doechii on ‘Timeless' Remix
The Weeknd and Playboi Carti hand the opening verse of their collaboration 'Timeless' over to Doechii on a new remix of the record. The rapper kicks off the latest version of the Hurry Up Tomorrow single with rockstar stamina and a glimpse into how she spends her 24 hours in a day.
'This shit too easy/I'm in the club with a G-SHOCK/Fendi baguette and it's peacock/I think I'm out your league, boss,' Doechii raps. 'Top Dawg cashin' out Doechii stock/Pull up to the pgLang on the dot/Now I got a timeshare wristwatch/I been that girl since hopscotch, I'm too legit.'
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The Weeknd's original 'Timeless' verse is removed from the remix, leaving just Doechii and Playboi Carti to take center stage. Earlier this year, the Weeknd and Playboi Carti performed the original version of the song in a surprise performance at the 2025 Grammy Awards. That same night, Doechii delivered a show-stopping performance of 'Catfish' and 'Denial is a River' before taking the stage again to accept the award for Best Rap Album for Alligator Bites Never Heal.
The Weeknd released Hurry Up Tomorrow as his sixth studio album in January. Next week, the musician will release an accompanying theatrical film of the same name. He stars in the movie, out May 16, alongside Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan. It has been described as a 'musically driven psychological thriller,' directed by Trey Edward Shults, the filmmaker behind Waves and It Comes at Night.
'It's always like these three-minute trailers that give out the whole plot because they want people to come to the theater. We trust the audience,' the Weeknd recently told Entertainment Weekly. Shults added: 'I also think it's honest to the tone of the film. You can take everything at face value and go on an emotional ride with it, but also, if you want to read things in a deeper layer and infer a lot of stuff, it's pretty rich.'
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