D’you get the feeling one of these people wants to be here a bit more than the other?

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Katherine St Asaph: The sound of an Americanized “Pass Out”: Stargate sighs through synths, Wiz wisps in and away, and Tinie reminds us how fantastic he is to have made it this far. Sure, why not? The States have had blander.
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Pete Baran: Who knew Tinie was such a pro-European? I mean I can see why Wiz could be a keen visitor to Amsterdam, but Tinie’s musical tour of Europe also takes in slightly more surprising vistas; he met royalty in Monaco! Its an odd beast this Eurotrip though, Wiz Kahlifa guesting is mainly singing, which seems to suggest Tinie was a bit scared about the conjunction of their flows. He shouldn’t be; whilst this is a lot less hooky than Tinie at his best, it still throws out a few great lines and has a clear slow burn potential. I said slow burn — that’s appropriate to Wiz too right?
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Martin Skidmore: I’m not sure that the slick Stargate production suits Tinie’s kind of energy or lyrical silliness terribly well. This is okay, but it rather washes over me without much impact, not helped much by Wiz’s dull hook.
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Brad Shoup: Once again, the refrain has nought to do with the verses, unless Tinie & Wiz are making proper plans for a five-week bender. Tinie highlights his parking ticket joke with a larf; perhaps he missed “Fancy“.
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Ian Mathers: Every generation gets the “Gone ‘Til November” that it deserves.
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Michaela Drapes: There’s some kind of delightful alchemy going on here that just works where so many others have failed. I can’t help but think it’s actually due to the fact that this isn’t overproduced within an inch of its life, rather than the actual combined talents of Tinie and Wiz — for the record, I’ll say it’s six of one, a half-dozen of the other.
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Andy Hutchins: This wants to be a lot bigger than it is. Or at least bigger than Tinie, whose flow is as empty-calorie entertainment as ever, wants it to be: Wiz couldn’t look much less interested to have been tapped to show up for this video; makes sense, given that the really cool bit of it is all post-production. (Really, watch the video.) There’s a very ’80s desperation to this, and it’s sort of the cooler “My Last” — in temperament or temperature, not stylistically. Fewer rappers pandering for hits with Stargate beats would be okay.
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Alfred Soto: What frisson this track boasts comes courtesy of Tinie, who’s like a wet raspberry in the hopeless Khalifa’s face.
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