On The Yacht Eating Cheesecake

Pusha T featuring Kanye West “Dreamin’ of the Past”

Good for Pusha T for managing to get a bouncy classic 00s style track from Kanye West in the 2020s – doesn’t seem easy these days? Or cheap, given that this one is built around a sample of Donny Hathaway singing a John Lennon song. Pusha T is definitely not going to surprise anyone with lyrical subject matter at this stage but there’s a few particularly clever lines here – I like “Kevlar in his Balenciaga jacket lining” and “on the bikes like Amblin.” West shows up for a brief verse near the end though his voice sounds a little off, I actually just thought it was someone else until I looked it up. I should’ve known, though – the line about almost buying the Fresh Prince of Bel Air mansion but hating the kitchen design is so very him.

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Tha God Fahim & Your Old Droog “Wall Street with Briefcase”

Here’s another presumably pricey sample, I’ll let you figure it out or look it up. But maybe I’m just “looking at expensive shit with the cheap face,” as Tha God Fahim says in the chorus. The sound of the track is lush and gentle, you could put the instrumental on a chillout mix. I like the cranky tone of the vocals though, particularly in the second half when Your Old Droog comes through and sounds like he’s casually shit talking in an assured but peevish tone.

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