So you waited a few weeks for a DJ Mustard song.. now prepare for 10 of them…

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Crystal Leww: Who would have thought a year ago that this point in 2015 I could take it or leave it with Mustardwave? “Post to Be” and “Somebody” are still deliriously fun when they come on the radio, but the one trick pony is oversatured, and quite frankly, too many of these performers are bad at carrying their songs. Kid Ink deserves credit for being ahead of the curve and potentially ending strong. Dej Loaf is icily cool, her take-it-or-leave-it attitude never lets you believe that she’s really invested in the fuckboy that she’s laughing at. Kid Ink, as always, turns in a couple of verses that say nothing but don’t ruin anything either. The instrumental bits here feel good; it’s DJ Mustard’s last grasp for relevance, and you know what, I don’t hate it.
[7]

Micha Cavaseno: “Lotta people try to tell me I’m the next guy”. *responds* But seriously, uhm… Ink here is just kind of trying to pretend he’s got substance and its not working for him. Dej Loaf is still pretending she’s going to have a career or possesses the ability to either rap or sing… Mustard is giving great beats to a guy who can usually knock this shit out of the park, and instead, he gave us this. Well, it was a good run, Kid Ink. Back to being the guy nobody wants to pay attention to.
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Katherine St Asaph: DJ Mustard realizes he needs a distinct advantage over the multiple varieties of Fake Mustard: here, switch-ups and percussion spritzes. One wonders what he’d do with more space. Dej Loaf is winning, but Kid Ink may as well be Fake Drake.
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Brad Shoup: It’s not a huge hook, but it’s great: Dej Loaf puts a big yawning “y” in front of “honest”; you can practically hear her cracking her knuckles. It’s so good, Mustard can’t resist threading it through spaces it maybe doesn’t belong. Kid Ink snaps off his verses: Dej’s chill gives him license to go bigger.
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Will Adams: Those synth pads are really sad! More affecting than the rest of this non-starter of a song, anyway. Kid Ink and Dej Loaf are both sorta aimless, an approach that’s really at odds with Col. Mustard’s lockstep beat, and the result is forgettable.
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Edward Okulicz: The bell-like noises over the chorus are Sad Mustard, the bass is prowling and sinuous, and then you’ve got some spooky noises under Ink’s verses. This song basically needed to pick a mood and stay in it.
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David Sheffieck: I’m finding it easy to forget that Kid Ink is even on this track, and hard to mind too much. A lot of it’s down to the mixing, which allows Dej Loaf to float over the production when delivering the hook, then subsumes Kid Ink’s delivery in the nether realms of Mustard’s chant-and-bass spiderweb. But the rest is in how Dej makes a banal hook sound more quotable and meaningful than anything Ink comes up with, and in the way that Mustard’s interpolation of DJ Snake-style synth-yelps breathes just a bit more life into his well-worn template.
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Ramzi Awn: I’ll just be honest. The first time I heard this song, I was standing on a street corner in Brooklyn. It was late, I’d been drinking, and I was still thirsty. “Be Real” stopped me dead in my tracks the same way “Don’t Stop The Music” did about eight years ago at my best friend’s wedding, like it was waiting to happen. And that’s about as real as it gets.
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