One of the more unconventional song title formats we’ve had in a while…
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Thomas Inskeep: While producer Bizarrap lays down a slightly broken reggaeton/trap beat that goes multiple ways in about three minutes, L-Gante expertly freestyles over it, riding the rhythm in any and all directions. This is thoroughly entertaining and always keeps my interest, and perhaps most importantly sounds smart.
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Katherine St Asaph: Latin trap via the blown-out, almost industrial distortion from Yeezus, a thread I wouldn’t mind more people picking up (since, uh, the original artist probably isn’t gonna).
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Samson Savill de Jong: The first minute of this creates promises the rest never fulfills. As L-Gante’s menacing voice effortlessly moves over the beats Bizarrap throws underneath him, I thought we were in for a startling display of versatility, with new flows and beats every 20 seconds. Instead it just goes back to the hook and the same beat choices again, and the flow becomes less inventive.
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Juana Giaimo: Bizarrap’s track of deep synths and two different cumbia beats — one goes harder like reggaeton, the other is lighter and features the typical cumbia güira — is a mess I enjoy. But L-Gante is so monotonous that it takes away all the fun.
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Tim de Reuse: L-Gante’s monotone growl would get old on its own, I think, but on top of such a foreboding, lanky beat, constantly lagging behind and catching up, it acquires a sense of lumbering menace. The constant forward propulsion is almost enough to sell the cartoonish braggadocio — almost — but I’m not sure any beat could be good enough to uplift the phrase “Picándome el Rick.”
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Alfred Soto: Even if I didn’t understand most of the demotic Spanish, this trap/grind medley mesmerizes thanks to the singer’s insistent monotone, in other circumstances a real irritant. I wouldn’t mind hearing it again, even if it’s not a track I would choose.
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Ian Mathers: This is actually pretty hypnotic, and I can’t decide if L-Gante’s weirdly effective monotone is the main reason it works or the only thing holding the shifting, blaring production back from true greatness. It’s not often I want to hear a remix just to see what other rappers would do with a track, but here I could stand a couple.
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