Two Rick Ross comparisons? This can’t end well.

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Julian Axelrod: “So for the chorus I’ve got, ‘Aite aite aite, you got me feeling like a Papillon/Aite aite aite find it’ or ‘shine like a diamond,’ something like that. We’ll have to come up with something better for the actual single, but that’s a fine placeholder for now. And the bridge can go ‘something something like a classic Papillon’ or whatever, I’m still working on it. I mean, obviously I’m gonna write the rest of the line before we record. Just don’t release this dry run as the single and we’ll be fine.”
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Ryo Miyauchi: Jackson Wang takes more than that dramatic grunt of a delivery from Rick Ross. He puts on a morose toughness for “Papillon” similar to a product of the Maybach Music Group empire. That collective’s brute sound wasn’t too accessible as history would prove, and unsurprisingly it doesn’t work too well as a platform for the GOT7 member to establish his independence either. At least he knows the rappers who did come up somewhat from the label — Meek Mill, Gunplay, Ross himself — each had a way with their voice like no other.
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Iain Mew: I like the way “Papillon” takes the slashes and shouts of “It G Ma” and similar and layers more complex beats and sounds underneath while keeping the feel of starkness. I could listen for that chorus for a while, if only the verses did a basic job at taking it from one to next without clumsily collapsing the mood.
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Ramzi Awn: Wang flows with attitude on “Papillon,” a treble-heavy banger with a standout pre-chorus. By the sound of it, there’s still some summer left to come. 
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Alfred Soto: It amuses when anyone imitates Rick Ross, especially now that Big Meech sounds like a bad Rick Ross imitator. The scratches and screeches convince, the rapping doesn’t. 
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Edward Okulicz: “Papillon,” of course, is French for butterfly. But the awkward, forced butchness that he barks and grunts out the “aite aite aite” chorus isn’t elegant, it’s more like a small dog barking out of proportion with its size, playing up toughness to deny its inherent cuteness. Overall it’s a fairly bored, lifeless bit of chest-puffing that won’t be bringing too many more people onto Team Wang.
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Patrick St. Michel: “The system is the problem,” Jackson Wang raps almost immediately after self-censoring himself in a line about breaking the rules. This is rap rendered edge-less, possibly because Korean entertainment company JYP Entertainment would like to avoid any more controversies with their China-market-courting acts, or maybe just because a member of a pop group can only slide into the role of hip-hop artist so far. Whatever the case, this is boring rap imitation, summoning familiar sounds and phrases, but failing to rise above simple references.
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