Simpsons shitposting has gone too far…
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Juana Giaimo: It seems that 2020 is really all about acoustic guitars in hip-hop tracks, but you need more to make these rappers interesting.
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Thomas Inskeep: Why is rapping over acoustic guitars so de rigueur right now, and how can it be stopped? Good lord. When your track is just a simple beat and an acoustic loop, you’d better have some good rapping to distinguish it — but neither Don Toliver, nor Gunna, nor Nav can seem to do so here, so “Lemonade” just flops around like a fish out of water. I mean, as much as I loathe Post Malone (someone else prone to tracks like this), at least he has personality; none of these guys do.
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Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Would be a [5] alone for getting Nav to sound like he’s an interesting and engaged rapper. Despite the gloom of the production, all of these typically humorless bastards sound like they’re having enough fun for this to rate on the plus side of the 2020 pop trap spectrum. The Jozzy original is better, fwiw!
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Tobi Tella: Not reinventing the wheel but pleasant, with a hook well-sung enough to ignore that calling your chain lemonade is not hard at all. NAV’s strange semi-autobiographical semi-Shakespearean verse is at least amusing enough to keep your attention, and Gunna is surprisingly solid and gives a well-needed jolt of energy, but ultimately it’s a diminishing return for the Xans and codeine references.
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Oliver Maier: I’m hard-pressed to imagine how this took as many writers and producers as it did (12 and five respectively) given this just sounds like a towelled-off Wunna cut. Nav is reliably pitiful, but Don Toliver and Gunna are a decent match. As sweet as the name would suggest, but not terribly satisfying.
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Edward Okulicz: I got more of a reaction smirking at the video because it looks like the boat is floating on an ocean of piss than I did from the song; it’s a good hook let down by its verses. Not as mind-numbing as Xanax, but it’s somewhere in the ballpark.
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Alfred Soto: What an EKG flatline looks like.
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