This song is widely known as the first song XXXTENTACION has released on his SoundCloud account and is, for this reason, one of the most known scarce tracks of X. It is a finished version of his song “News.” The SoundCloud description of the song was “the remake and complete version.” It was released on June 17, 2013, and was to be the first single of his 2013 scrapped project, Mona Lisa. As that project was canceled, “News/Flock” was pushed onto the first project released by X, XXX (UNMASTERED), in 2014. Before its release, X had dropped a snippet of it titled “News” on June 15, 2013. This song was for a long time known to be unavailable on the Internet, therefore it was considered to be a “lost song”. Due to this, it was common to hear that “News/Flock” sampled Odd Future’s “Oldie”, which is true, but also that it used lyrics from his No Jumper freestyle and BET Cypher, which is not valid. Despite that last information being false, X talks about “News/Flock” in the No Jumper interview, claiming it is “his best song in storytelling.” On the other hand, it was later found that the instrumental for “News” is a type-beat that can still be found on YouTube.
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