Rap Song of the Week breaks down all of the hip-hop tracks you must hear each Friday. Take a look at the total playlist here. This week, YG and Lil Wayne reunite on “Miss My Dawgs.”
YG and Lil Wayne have been frequent collaborators over the previous decade or so, first teaming up on the remix to YG’s breakout hit “My N****.” Earlier this week, YG acknowledged their shut relationship by gifting his “favourite rapper” with a red 4Hunnid chain throughout the video shoot for his or her new collaboration, “Miss My Dawgs.”
That includes melancholy, piano-driven manufacturing by Gibbo and Ambezza, “Miss My Dawgs” serves as a tribute to YG’s late buddy and rapper Slim 400, who was fatally shot one 12 months in the past at present. The monitor’s title is perhaps a nod towards Wayne’s 2004 monitor “I Miss My Dawgs,” too, because the rappers bear in mind all their mates that had been taken too quickly. The accompanying music video pays additional respect with an early shot of a Nipsey Hussle mural.
As canine bark within the background, YG units the emotional tone for the monitor on the refrain, rapping, “Man, I miss my dawgs/ Those I choose up for, ain’t by no means missed a name.” Transferring on to outline “my dawgs,” YG retains it easy, referring to mates who had been with him whereas they had been “making it out of poverty” and nonetheless hold it “trustworthy with me.”
On Wayne’s verse, he opens up about “bad-ass reminiscences” earlier than venting about haters who “tryna scratch a n**** off.” With almost three many years in hip-hop on the age of 40, it’s unimaginable to think about what his private life has been like — not to mention how many individuals he’s misplaced through the years.
“Miss My Dawgs” joins 2016’s “I Received a Query” and “Trill,” 2020’s “Blood Stroll,” and final 12 months’s “Buzzin’” as the newest addition to YG and Lil Wayne’s lengthy collaborative historical past. With its mournful tone and heartfelt lyrics, it would simply be their greatest but.
— Eddie Fu
New Music Editor
