French Montana ft. Rick Ross, Drake & Lil Wayne – Pop That
Young Money really needs to come up with names for every possible feature combination, just so we don’t have to keep writing it all out…
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Patrick St. Michel: “Pop That,” along with Juicy J’s “Bands A Make Her Dance,” is excellent production being paired up with boneheaded strip-club rapping. Unlike “Bands,” though, this beat is equally jubilant and matches up really well with the subject matter. Everyone on this song pretty much delivers what you’d expect from them: French Montana is serviceable, Rick Ross isn’t a good rapper but he says words that start with “b” so well (“Bugatti,” “ballin'” being the highlights) that we forgive him, and Drake is still a moody asshole. The pleasant surprise is Wayne, who delivers a verse way better than his spot on “Bands” despite the shudder-inducing line “pop that pussy like a zit.”
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Jonathan Bogart: Rozay is agreeably phatic, Drizzy is unpleasantly emphatic, Weezy is aggressively lymphatic, and French Montana (nicknames are for friends and etc.) might as well not be there.
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Anthony Easton: Maybe I am just really bad at sex, but no matter how delightfully pussy-obsessed this is, I’m surprised at exactly how fast it moves — too fast to use it to time the sex act, which I always thought was the purpose of work like this. The gap between theory and practice is fascinating.
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Brad Shoup: I guess I can forgive Lee Beats for this cos he’s, like, twelve, but the Crew does not pair well with spangled club production. You’ll suck the funny out! Drake’s “fuck you and your time difference” is pretty good, and Rozay vanishing at the end of his bars shows a bit of investment. Weezy’s here to muddle the huddle: Ross reps the Patriots, but Wayne drops Joe Montana on his head, so I’m left unsure of where they stand on offense beyond the obvious clues. French’s slotted first, lest he gets buried in personality.
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Alfred Soto: Who let these dogs in? Ross wins this contest: most brain dead lines uttered with conviction. Second place: Wayne’s “pop that pussy like a zit.”
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Zach Lyon: Call it lowered expectations, but this song does everything I need it to do; I don’t expect a song featuring Young Money Central to actually showcase French Montana (I’ve listened to it four times in a row and I’m still not sure he’s on it) and I don’t expect a song with this beat and this quartet, together, to provide a single line worth anyone’s attention. And I don’t expect such a fierce mega-banger of a beat, but that’s what I got, so.
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It’s not a sex song, it’s a twerk song :)
Going to pretend like that zit popping line wasn’t brought to my attention.
In my book, a song’s awesomeness can sometimes be defined simply by how many times it causes my seatbelt to go into crash-lock mode while I’m going nuts to it in my car.
So yeah: DONT STOP POP THAT DONT STOP POP THAT POP THAT POP THAT
Also does the production remind anyone else of Girl Unit’s work because that is also a plus.
It reminds me most of the beat to Lil B’s “Pretty Boy”, which is slightly more entertaining than this radio placeholder. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw_rSAgFNNI