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Chance the Rapper featuring DaBaby and MadeinTYO “Hot Shower”

A lot of Chance the Rapper’s fourth record – actually his debut album if you ask him, but that’s just a discography combover if you ask me – is heavy and soulful, signaling maturity and stability. But “Hot Shower,” the record’s standout track, is a total goof that gives him space to be silly and extra playful with his always expressive voice. The song owes a lot to the cadences of Valee and Jeremih’s hit “Womp Womp” from last year, but the tone is different – less hypnotic and aloof, and way more overtly comedic as Chance shouts out DUDE and NUDES with cartoonish over-emphasis in the second verse. MadeinTYO’s verse is significantly more chill, but it’s just a palette cleanser before getting to DaBaby’s verse, which is dazzles with low-key confidence as it tips from bragging about cars to a section about going to court that’s both defiant of and paranoid about the racist legal system.

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