Friday, December 6, 2013

Dope (ft. Rick Ross) - Tyga

Tyga appears to be a scrawny mixed-race punk with a lot of tattoos, and the music video for Dope not only presents him as such, but also as extravagantly wealthy. Your favorite Vietnamese-Jamaican rapper comes through hard on this hashtaggy, gloating single, but the real star of the show is The Boss, Rick Ross: "Hating on hood niggas dying around here / Bath Salt Boss, got insurance on the beard."

Ross has been known for waxing over the truth lyrically, but it is especially strange of him to assume the title "Bath Salt Boss." Perhaps living in Florida, where the use of recreational bath salts is on the rise, Ross fears that the face-eating tendencies of some bath salt users will affect his signature beard? Either way, the old Dre and Snoop sample really make this one a quality track of SoCal hip-hop in 2013.

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