In my 2019 rap radio hits post last week, I noted that there are 7 different rappers from Memphis currently in the prime of their careers and making national hits, so it's pretty cool to hear 4 of them on the same track (we'll never get all of them on the same track just because of the rift between the Gotti camp and Dolph camp). Moneybagg is currently my favorite out of these guys, but everyone turns in a good verse.   

Since this song was over 3 years old when it started to build steam on the charts, I can see why they thought it needed a refresh with a new guest star. But in the end Ari doesn't really add much to this, and I've never heard the version with her on the radio. 

Given that Young Thug is about ten times more talented than Travis Scott in every way, I'm not wild about their respective career trajectories since the days of "Mamacita" and "Pick Up The Phone." So it's pretty annoying that once Thug finally got a big #1 album thanks to a Travis-assisted lead single, they gratuitously threw Travis on the radio version of the second single. The Travis verse isn't bad, but the song didn't need it, it was already a hit.
I know that 21 Savage's image is a lot different than it was a year or two back thanks to his last album and his activism, but he's still about as stiff and one-note as a rapper as he ever was, so it sounds a little ridiculous to put him on a shiny pop jam like this. 


I like this song, in both the original version with Uzi and in the remix with Meg that they threw out there when it wasn't getting radio plays, but they should have put Billy Porter on the track. 

This remix looks way worse on paper than it does in practice, mainly because they added some drums to the acoustic track, and Savage puts in a little more effort than he did on the Normani remix. Still not great, though, and he has one of the worst voices for AutoTune in modern rap. 

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