Best New Tracks - Pitchfork: Cam'ron / A-Trak: "Humphrey" |  |
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Posted: 30 Jan 2014 08:57 AM PST
"Dame said I'm buggin' cuz I want to fight B-Hop/ I said I'll fuck him up after two months of detox." Those are flavorful, funny, and promising opening bars from Cam'ron on "Humphrey", the first taste of his upcoming EP with A-Trak, Federal Reserve. Cam manages to grace his undying cult of fans with about, oh, a 15% show of effort every three years or so; by now, we should know better than to sit up too quickly. But wait: The loop is chirpy soul-rap, bright and dirty as cherry lozenge plucked off a movie-theater floor, exactly the kind of cheaply glowing sound the Dips exulted over when they were still at the top.
Also: "My parents got high, no lie, it's no shame/ A product of dust, lust and cocaine/ Still cool with some ni**as that sniff 'caine/ That grow weed that grow hair like Rogaine." He's…trying. "I ain't never really lost nothin', man," Cam protests on the song' intro. It's true, but if he never lost anything, he certainly left some of it moldering. Who knows what spiked him to attention, but here we have it, and we should play it a few hundred times. Cam'ron and A-Trak: "Humphrey" on SoundCloud.  |
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