Curren$y and Harry Fraud have put out an official video for “Tightrope,” posted on the YouTube channel of Jet Life Recordings, the New Orleans label Curren$y founded in February 2011. It is the latest clip from a rapper and producer pairing that has now released music together across 14 years.
The upload, titled “Curren$y & Harry Fraud – Tightrope (Official Video),” sits on the label’s own channel rather than a fan or aggregator account, and it embeds cleanly. The clip joins a long run of official videos the pair have issued there, among them “Leaving the Dock,” “Checkpoints” and “Duffle 2 the Dealership.”
A partnership that started with boats
The two first teamed up on Cigarette Boats, a Harry Fraud-produced EP released on July 10, 2012, which a hip hop magazine named its EP of the year. Curren$y, born Shante Scott Franklin in New Orleans in 1981, was by then running Jet Life after stints at No Limit, Cash Money and Young Money. Fraud, born Rory William Quigley in New York City in 1987, had come up producing for French Montana, whose 2012 single “Shot Caller” carried his beat to urban radio.
Their catalog since then reads like a release schedule:
- 2012: Cigarette Boats
- 2013: The Stage, with Smoke DZA
- 2018: The Marina
- 2020: The OutRunners, The Director’s Cut and Bonus Footage
- 2021: Regatta
- 2023: Vices
- 2025: Never Catch Us
- 2026: Roofless Records for Drop Tops: Disc 2, with Wiz Khalifa, and Off to the Races
Counted together, that is 11 joint projects in 14 years, and three of them arrived in the last two. The 2026 pace is the striking part. Curren$y’s own discography lists five collaborative albums this year alone: The Curren$y Files with Cookin’ Soul, Spiral Staircases with Larry June and The Alchemist, both discs of Roofless Records for Drop Tops, and Off to the Races with Fraud.
Why the sound fits the name
Fraud’s production has been described as foggy, sample-heavy New York music, and he has said he wants drums felt whether the hit is a huge snare or a tiny rimshot. His tag, sung by Fanesha Fabre, opens his beats with “La musica de Harry Fraud.” Curren$y’s unhurried delivery, built on cars, boats and travel, has suited those loops since 2012, which is why fans tend to treat a new Curren$y-Fraud clip as a mood piece rather than a single campaign.
Fraud has kept just as busy with other rappers. His 2025 projects included Made by Dope with Detroit’s Bruiser Wolf, who has since turned up on Badiyaa for The Dealer Wins, his 10-track album with Conductor Williams. And the Wiz Khalifa connection runs deep for Curren$y, whose first collaboration with him, How Fly, dates to 2009; Wiz’s own new record is covered in our piece on Wiz Khalifa’s album Cool and his move to 10K Projects.
What we can and cannot say about the clip
The label’s channel confirms the title, the billing and the official status of the video. It does not, in the material we could read, say which project “Tightrope” belongs to, so Badiyaa is not assigning it to Off to the Races or any other album until Jet Life or Fraud’s Surf School label says so. More from the genre is on our Entertainment section page.
Curren$y also has The Winners Circle Tour on his 2026 schedule, the latest headline run in a touring history that goes back to the Jet Life Tour: Direct Flight in 2012.
Further reading
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