The Singles Jukebox

We need good inspirational stoner jams.

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Taylor Alatorre: It’s a genuinely affecting tale of ignoring outside judgments, turning perceived weaknesses into strengths, excelling in one’s chosen craft, and giving back to the day ones — at least until it gives up halfway through and accepts its fate as a limp stoner jam. If “Wiz Khalifa” is on its way to becoming an adverb in the general parlance, the legalization movement has been for naught.
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Katie Gill: If this means that dumb stoners will start using Wiz Khalifa as their mass market stoner icon instead of Bob Marley then play on, Fetty Wap. You’re doing the world a service.
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Alfred Soto: More than a year of waiting for another miracle like “Trap Queen,” Fetty waves from the sea, hoping Wiz Khalifa throws him a lifeline. There’s a hole in the hull.
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Adaora Ede: Fetty has managed to become progressively lazier with every release and it’s saddening because he is exactly the type of guy that you WANT to like. “Trap Queen” had the kind of chutzpah that made it a universal bop in summer 2k15, but he seems that he’s lost that for…Wiz Khalifa references? The quasi-balladry AND his verses on this track sound incredibly sloppy. If the rest of the song had the 808s and Heartbreak vibe I was getting in the hook right before the “WIZ KHALIFAAAAA HIGGGH” slur, he might have kept me somewhat awake.
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Anthony Easton: The bit where he can not really talk, and just makes sounds, around 2:30 and again before the end of the song, before he returns to the same idea, repeated again and again, compounds thie swerving, strung out lethargy of this track. 
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Mo Kim: The verse brings a jolt of caffeine to this otherwise sleepy-eyed joint, but the hook dwells in the same elementary territory Fetty’s trying to ditch here.
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Cassy Gress: Fetty sounds just about as cheerfully stoned as Afroman does in “Because I Got High”, but gratifyingly, much less obnoxious about it. The goody-goody in me feels a little scolding-teacher about this, though I can’t hate on that staggering, sighing fadeout.
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Thomas Inskeep: No, Fetty, go back to sleep.
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Brad Shoup: Fetty’s melodicism is stronger than Khalifa’s, but they’re in the same ballpark. (The piano and talk of school reminds me of Wiz’s “Young, Wild & Free”.) This piano cycles idly, a stray figure tapped out in the music room. It’s a victory lap: a cool beautiful moment when you realize you made it clear.
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Jibril Yassin: Fetty Wap out here making inspirational joy raps for the kids and the most important thing to note is, Wiz Khalifa references aside, this is relatively cheese-free. Therefore, I’m all for it.
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