Monday 15 August 2022

You minor, nearly major

2Rare - Oochie Coochie
(From Oochie Coochie single; 2022)



Philly Club Rap which kinda sounds like Chicago Bop? As The High & Mighty nearly said, that's a pleasant surprise like seeing unshaven pussy right in front of your eyes. Oochie Coochie might be the catchiest chorus of 2022 - a hook so horny it'd make Max B proud (2Rare even talks like Max when he says "I'm tryna hit you too, I got the wave right now and you keep tryna make me be the one to cuff you" to his bird on the phone.) At 1:14 Oochie Coochie is more like an intro than an anthem, but I ain't mad at it in this instance.

... who am I tryna fool? Nah, I'm mad. Oochie Coochie coulda/woulda/shoulda been a 5 Star General choon if it were longer. Not only is a 1:14 Rap song musically unsatisfying to me, it's also functionally impractical: how am I supposed to listen to this shit in the car and keep my eyes on the road when I've gotta fiddle around to rewind the song every 74 seconds? The unfortunate thing with a lot of these zoomer rappers is that they make music for TikTok instead of making music for cars. You know what's really annoying though? None of 2Rare's other songs are this short, but none of them are anywhere near as good as Oochie Coochie. Flippin' typical innit?

In theory, 2Rare could solve Oochie Coochie's problem by recording a 2nd verse for an extended mix. In reality, extended mixes usually end up creating more problems where the new verses either sound like awkward ProTooled attachments or use a different flow which ends up debunking the original song's charms. Life is... too short, and so is this song. Guess I'm just gonna have to accept that.

8 comments:

Smell Rell said...

Lil Kemo needs to come out of retirement for this

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Stunt Taylor on the remix.

Yohan said...

Considered if this track would benefit from the Trap Queen treatment with two identical verses on the same song but I don't think that would work in this instance. Song's hot though.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Remember Fetty's m8 Nitt Da Gritt who did the closing monologue on Trap Queen? He should do one on here.

"Yeah, you hear my boy soundin' like a zillion bucks on the track..."

Yohan said...

For sure. I've also deleted the album version of the track (from the album folder and from my memory) in favour of the (I think) Step One edit where he cut out the second verse and adds the Nitt Da Gritt monologue. Easily the superior version.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

I think you mean the O.G retail MP3. I did a post on how that was the definitive version,

Yohan said...

That's the one, thought it was a Step One edit. I still get confused every time I hear Thug's verse on Havana in a public setting.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Even the biggest Thug fan would have to admit that his voice belonged nowhere near any kind of pop single.

Shoulda been Quan.