With their latest release, “Call the Cops,” West Coast supergroup Serial Killers—the long-running trio of Xzibit, B-Real (Cypress Hill), and Demrick—sound like they’re kicking down the door of 2026 before it even arrives. The track is a bruising, full-throttle return that riffs on one of hip-hop’s most enduring battle cries: LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out.” Sampling that iconic hook, the group flips its defiant energy into something snarling, urgent, and unmistakably 2020s.
“Call the Cops” marks the second single from Serial Killers’ forthcoming full-length album on Ineffable Records, their first studio LP since 2020’s Summer of Sam and their fifth official release as a unit. If that album hinted at the raw chemistry between three generations of West Coast spitters, the new material suggests something more focused and more explosive—thanks in part to one key collaborator.
The entire project is produced by Scoop DeVille, the hitmaker whose fingerprints run through modern rap history. DeVille’s résumé is a timeline of pivotal moments: Kendrick Lamar’s “Poetic Justice,” Snoop Dogg’s “I Wanna Rock,” 50 Cent’s “The Funeral,” plus cuts with Dr. Dre, Drake, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, Fat Joe, and Jeezy. Here, he supplies Serial Killers with beats that feel both classic and combustible: trunk-rattling bass, icy synth stabs, and drums that punch like they’re coming straight off an SP-1200.
The single lands at a moment when all three members are firing on all cylinders individually. Xzibit just returned with his first solo album in 13 years—a heavyweight project stacked with appearances from Dr. Dre, Busta Rhymes, Ice Cube, Redman, B-Real, Ty Dolla $ign, and more—firmly reasserting his place in the West Coast lineage. B-Real, meanwhile, hasn’t slowed for a second, fresh off Cypress Hill’s “Dank Daze of Summer Tour” and a historic performance of Black Sunday at Royal Albert Hall backed by the London Symphony Orchestra. And Demrick, the trio’s connective tissue, recently dropped his solo project Ooowee, a sharp display of his melodic hooks and rapid-fire bars featuring Xzibit, B-Real, Coyote, and K.A.A.N., proving just how deeply embedded he is in today’s rap ecosystem.
Put together, “Call the Cops” feels like the distillation of everything Serial Killers do best: Xzibit’s growl, B-Real’s nasal fury, Demrick’s precision, and production built for high-stakes rap theater. Sampling LL Cool J isn’t just a flex—it’s a mission statement. The Serial Killers aren’t trying to recreate the past; they’re weaponizing it.
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