Bandleader and jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington will release his sophomore solo album, Heaven and Earth, on June 22 via Young Turks, and today the musician has shared another preview of the record in the form of single “Street Fighter Mas.”

The song, which can be heard below, mixes a hip-hop-inspired beat and thumping bass with soft choir and horn lines and solos throughout. In a press release, Washington explains that the idea for and impetus behind the tune came from his days at the arcade:

When I was younger, I was in between the end of the arcade generation and the beginning of the console generation. We used to go to this place called Rexall to play Street Fighter. At Rexall, there would be different people from different hoods there playing the game. It was the one place that was like an equalizer. It was just about how good you were at Street Fighter…for the most part. In other places, you were afraid of these dudes; there, you would just play the game and it was what it was, you know? I was really good at Street Fighter, so where the song really came from was me jokingly saying I was going to have my own theme song so that when I showed up to play Street Fighter they’d play my theme song before I came in, like a boxer. In the context of the album, it was the connection that we got with those guys in our neighborhood. We used to call them OGs, the older guys that we looked up to.

In a lot of ways, for me, video games was the way I connected with them because I was never affiliated with any gangs, but I knew them and I was cool with them and that was mainly through the video games. At an older age I thought how amazing would it be if the OGs could just play the game and solve their problems that way. The meaning within the scope of the record is a connection to the past and all of the many ways we can connect.

Heaven and Earth, the two-part follow-up to Washington’s critically acclaimed 2015 record The Epic and last year’s Harmony of Difference EP, is available for pre-order here. Watch a preview of the forthcoming video for “Street Fighter Mas” here.