I’ll take a cut like "Hoover Street" over "What They Want" any day I can name 1,000 tracks about stacking money, only a small handful about growing up with a fiend uncle who would steal your cereal. Chainz is at his best when he’s at his most outrageous and borderline absurd, the exact opposite of Q, and the fact that the song still works is a testament to ScHoolboy’s versatility, but it’s also one of the album’s least compelling tracks. This song doesn’t pull a gun on you in the club, it jumps you in an dark alley with a baseball bat and steals your socks just because.įor example, just contrast "Gangsta" with "What They Want," produced by Mike WiLL and featuring 2 Chainz, who together have done more to popularize that “shock and awe” banger style than almost anyone. While so many bangers in 2014 attempt to intimidate with shock and awe-huge bass, even bigger drums and larger-than-life hooks-"Gangsta" hits even harder because it’s so relatively subtle. ![]() The debates around this album should be centered around how good it is, and we’ll get there, but when Q choose to lead his album off with a cut like "Gangsta," he immediately placed himself among elite company. Ten seconds into Oxy’s first track, "Gangsta," and those questions are answered.
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