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Will Adams: I was wondering whatever happened to that beat I made in GarageBand when I was thirteen.
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Anthony Easton: I like how skeletal, almost minimal, this is, with that piano that is so spare and the vocals that take a long time in between ideas.
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David Sheffieck: The beat’s simple but effective, the sort of foundation a strong rapper could build something worthwhile on. But OG Maco has nothing to say, just a variety of ways to say it — and every trick here sounds borrowed from someone else’s playbook, with nothing distinctive holding it all together. Key does stronger work on his verse, getting at least a couple good lines in, but he’s not enough to rescue a song that’s this empty.
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W.B. Swygart: Cos, y’know, when you’re angrily telling yourself what you should have said to those kids that cut in front of you at the supermarket, would it not just sound so much better if somebody was learning to play piano in the background?
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Micha Cavaseno: Can the internet further class division? Right now, dozens of Atlanta rap mainstays such as Jose Guapo, Bloody Jay, Peewee Longway, Johnny Cinco and more are eagerly trying to fight their way up and out of the glass ceiling of local legends, the same way comrade Young Thug did. But besides the usual perils of finding that lucky record, not getting caught up in negative lifestyles, they also have to contend with their fans. Nowadays, The New Atlanta is a wave of middle-class kids who once would look down on that style of music, instead doing their best to emulate. And the unfortunate consequences of your Trinidads, your Two-9s, your Rome Fortunes, your Makonnens and NOW your OG Macos is that these kids don’t have those problems preventing the industry from appreciating them. So I don’t bemoan OG Maco for having fun by doing Migos flows badly, having no bars, and rapping over some beat Tyler, The Creator probably made and deleted the next day in ’06 and becoming generic Vine fodder. That’s fine. The problem is that when these kids thrive, how badly does that invalidate all the hard work their icons put in?
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Brad Shoup: Best skit ever, man.
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