Trochee! Trochee!

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Brad Shoup: Dej and Sean coordinate awkward flows, then she says the hook about sixteen thousand times. The drums and nifty little piano figure form a holding pattern, like Sean waiting for that Grammy.
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Micha Cavaseno: As per usual, Dej Loaf’s mushmouthed sloppy flow and lists of IG meme fodder punchlines don’t really work for my continuous engagement, but the tense restraint in the production she rides give an edge to the feather-lightness of her voice. Meanwhile, Big Sean provides a series of Drake embellishments with his usual tedious adequacy to provide a perfect compliment to his cornball hostess.
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Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy: “Cheque is seven figures, I might try and dial the shit!” Big Sean is sneaky good when he’s not trying to be a Great Rapper.
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Andy Hutchins: The exciting thing about DeJ Loaf (for people who actually listen to music, anyway; I see you, XXL!) is that outstanding timbre, a voice that stands out as truly singular on the radio. “Try Me” and “Detroit Vs. Everybody” let her use that voice in a sing-song cadence and as a contrast to a bunch of screwface rapping; “Back Up,” despite the “fuck you” implicit in basically every bar, leans into the juvenalia with that delicate lullaby synth line, and it works: Now, not only does a song getting rap radio have DeJ sounding utterly foreign, the instrumental matches. Credit iRock for that, and for purloining a break and the vocal hook from a Chicago juke song that Detroiters claimed because, uh, the Midwest, to create something new and arresting. It doesn’t really matter that DeJ remains a work in progress as a lyricist, with gems like “Glow sticks for you ho chicks” buried between bars rhyming “necklace” with itself and “disrespectful” and ending a verse with four bars that don’t rhyme; Big Sean’s here to do some big brother work, do his customary mid-verse flow shift, and make a multi quatrain ending in “and shit” genuinely clever. Maybe this doesn’t sound like Detroit. Maybe that’s not a bad thing.
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Jonathan Bogart: “I show no emotions [trochee] [trochee] it’s disgustin’” is the quickest way to my heart no matter who you are.
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Alfred Soto: Dej Loaf repeats a phrase, Big Sean recites sentences that refuse to turn into stressed verse, and the beat claps pneumatically. Next.
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Thomas Inskeep: It’s got a good beat and you can dance to it, but I won’t give it an 88, because neither Dej Loaf nor Big Sean has much personality in their flows. 
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