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Wow... that's
really heroic. If Rocky was going to train to a hip hop tune, this
song would score the montage. The synth horns that open the song
could probably make the argument all by themselves: they're pretty
obviously coming out of someone's Korg Triton (Lil Wayne, I have two
words for you: Miroslav Orchestra. I know you have the hard drive
space), but they're endearingly cheesy. This song would probably
sound amazing with real horns... but no use crying over spilled
samples.
Though the horns
are the first thing I noticed, the beats are the best thing about
this song. Some work went into the programming on this one. The
kick skitters around on the bottom of the track, and there's a lot of
complexity in the hats and cymbals, all kept in check by a steady
handclap. Somebody was having a lot of fun with the drums when they
put this one together.
I thought it was
odd that the vocals were so low in the mix-- the music sort of
overwhelms the voices in most of the song. I can still make out the
lyrics, but the music is way up front... odd for this type of music,
but it sort of makes sense when I try to write about the lyrics and
keep coming up dry. The music is punched up because the words are
kinda boring.
Putting up music
this epic to back a brag track begs for some audacity, but the
bravado in this just seems commonplace (“I've been fly so long I
fell asleep on the fucking plane”). There's money, crews, cars,
and girls (“Don't like my women single, I like my chicks in twos”),
but no more than anyone else's bragging... maybe even a little
less. Writing this dull makes me wonder why the song needs to exist
at all, since it shares space with “Monster.”
Lackluster, but not
awful... and it could be worse. The numbers got shuffled this week
because #33 was being consumed by, you guessed it, Glee. That puts
things in perspective.
Stay with the song, walk away, or run like hell:
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