As Mike knows damn well, knowing to stop is just as important as knowing when to go. Mike WiLL keeps taking the beat underwater and then letting it splash gloriously out, like the most hood of Flippers. Production notes: Based on the same quiet-quiet-LOUD principles that helped, you know, the Pixies shred, “Bugatti” is all about the moment of impact. You could swap out the verses for loops of old Lou Dobbs Tonight audio and this thing would still get Hot 97 spins.īut before we get too down on Ace - who is, after all, doing nothing more than not looking a gift horse in the mouth - a quick, endearing note from his Wikipedia page: “In 2007, he met DJ Khaled outside the offices of WEDR 99 Jamz after Ace gave him an autobiography and demo tape, Khaled signed Hood to his label, We the Best.” Made It’s recent ridiculous hot streak: In the last two years alone, he’s given us “Tupac Back,” “Turn on the Lights,” “No Lie,” “Pour It Up,” and, greatest of all - drumroll please - the beautifully empty number for “Bandz a Make Her Dance.” (For the icing on the cake, he’s also co-credited on “Mercy.”) And it is, secondly, a Future song, whose powerful chorus work here renders all other vocals simply perfunctory. The “Bugatti” beat is just the latest bit of fire from Mr. It is, firstly, a Mike WiLL Made It song. Like, I’m saying: Our man Antoine McColister actually just went ahead and put the word “hood” in his rap name.īut the readily apparent truth is that “Bugatti” is not an Ace Hood song.
At this point I’m starting to think he’s less into non-generically depicting his hardscrabble upbringing and more into ampersands. His next one’s called Trials & Tribulations. Now how could such a gem come to us from as faceless and blank a street-rap guy as Ace Hood, you ask? Ace’s last album was called Blood, Sweat & Tears. And that first time with “Bugatti,” I felt that way, even though DJ Horse Hoof Haver was peppering his trademark “horse neigh” drops all over the place. These particular windows-down volume-all-the-way-fucking- up jams, you see, they lay waste and salt the earth. Because when you first hear a song as massively and perfectly, to borrow a phrase from the children, “turnt up” as “Bugatti,” you feel as if you might not have need for any other musical sounds ever again.
In my defense, I’d been out of the country for six weeks - but really, that’s no excuse for failing to keep up with the latest in advanced American radio rap technology. I first got put on to “Bugatti,” at the embarrassingly late date of “a month ago,” during a set by Crank City DJ’s infamous DJ Horse Hoof Haver (a.k.a. YouTube Hit Count: 12,694,296 at time of publication
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