The Singles Jukebox

Best-case scenario for a song with this title?

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Thomas Inskeep: *hopes song isn’t about what I fear it’s about* *plays song* *is relieved* *is surprised to hear a hip-hop song in 2016 (or maybe ever) about using MDMA* *wishes Kodak Black’s voice wasn’t so annoying* *is glad “Lockjaw” isn’t another generic trap record* *credits Puffy with at least some of that* *has always casually liked French Montana and this doesn’t change that* *song ends*
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Anthony Easton: I can’t imagine this becoming as popular as The Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face,” but for songs which use cocaine’s analgesic properties as metaphors for emotional contience, I think this one a bit better. It’s such a low, slow, repeating song, working in tight circles without letting entry, a song that seems more obligation than pleasure. The loops are deepened by the space where a canine howl becomes an almost human keen and vice versa.
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Jessica Doyle: It’s hard to resist a song whose hook is about incomprehensibility; more so the way Kodak Black and French introduce ambiguity into every line: no mention of the high without being reminded of the monkey of the back; boasting about irresistibility and then introducing a woman who glances down suspiciously at her drink. They sound as if they don’t quite understand themselves, and thus make themselves easier to understand.
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Iain Mew: The dose of energy they join together to add in the second verse is cool, but the song is all about “bite down” and the way that every sound points towards a plush numbness that becames a more all-encompassingly inevitability with each command. It doesn’t make giving in sound good or bad so much as sweep those options away altogether.
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Jonathan Bogart: The floating, ghostly vocal drift that makes up the background is responsible for most of this score; the rest of it is due to Kodak Black’s warm, humorous presence, turning French Montana into a water carrier on his own song.
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Jibril Yassin: The best decision made on this song was not to delegate each rapper a verse. French Montana has such a smooth flow riding over this that he almost would have slid into the background on his own had it not been for young Kodak’s raspy voice, wrapping itself around French’s rhymes like saran and inserting himself whenever he damn pleases, a result nothing short of mesmerizing. 
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