Tosten Burks is about to fall asleep on the steps.
The latest flourish from Exile and Fashawn shows the difference between hip-hop that promotes fun and hip-hop that simply just is. The two trade bars on top of giggling guitar stutters and the hoots and hollers of a cartoon peanut gallery, chaptered by an off-pitch falsetto Exile hook that’s either sarcastic or drunk, probably both.
Of course, “Oh Word” would just be silly if not for it also being full of good rapping. Exile “burns blunts the size of midgets.” Fashawn is “higher than an eagle’s nose” with a “flow 20 below like I’m lying in a feet of snow.” It’s imagery for imagery’s sake, which I say in the most complimentary way possible.
As he asks where the scotch went near the end of the song, Exile forgets the chorus, the words “Give it all you got, give it all you got.” The song is so pure and joyous because it’s clear that they did no such thing.
Previous Episodes:
Question in the form on an Answer: Exile
Exile’s Intro to the Outro and the Power of Nerditry
Exile – Population Control
Download:
MP3: Exile & Fashawn-“Oh Word (Keep on Rising)”
