Superstar rap producers manage not to be named DJ Mustard…
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Megan Harrington: A-Trak and Lex Luger supply a left-field beat full of squeaky burbles that might be talking doll samples; Thugger and Longway are the types to hear animated toys and bust out the Ouija board just to make things weirder. But not here. Thug doubles down on “three sluts” to playful ends, but it doesn’t have the skull-fucking stickiness of a Migos lyric. Longway is bit more autre, pairing staircase cadences with mostly indecipherable nonsense. I like when these two send transmissions from Mars, but “Jack Tripper” has more banger potential than their previous experiments.
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Will Adams: Form following function, Low Pros cough up a weak beat to drag along even weaker lyrics, including references to Hugh Hefner, Flavor of Love, and Jack Tripper.
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Crystal Leww: Sonically, way too similar to Tink’s “Wanna Party.” It’s not “who did it first” so much as “wow this other track did it first and also better and with way more charm.” Lex Luger and A-Trak also do a limp impression of much less well-known Fatima Al Qadiri, Nguzunguzu, and J-Cush, who gave “Wanna Party” texture and rattle rather than cheap and shallow sheen. Credit to Young Thug to stretching words in interesting ways to make them fit in tight spaces, but no credit for this lyrical mess. The misogyny doesn’t bother me; it’s how goddamn lazy rhyming “sluts” with “sluts” more than once is.
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Alfred Soto: Lex Luger and A-Trak’s beat doesn’t get schizoid until the last minute, a few notes of distortion over the scratches and sampled vocals and strings. Young Thug is enthusiastic for a fella who couldn’t afford three sluts last year.
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Brad Shoup: Travi$ Scott used the counting trope for his Low Pros hook, too. But it doesn’t wear thin on impact. It also bangs instead of clangs.
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Patrick St. Michel: Pure trend jumping.
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