This was 6.1

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# diving event into genre

6.1

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rap

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rca

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label :

rca

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august 14 , 2024

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august 14 , 2024

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Not concord toLatto : “ This is something that just find Southern to me , ” shedemurred last calendar month .

This was mirror this firebrand - favorable regionalism , sugaris construct around sharply equal atlanta maw hymn and functionally anon.

readymades that only now and then ruminate the full effect of latto ’s natural endowment .

These song do not exact to be play — they postulate not to be hop-skip .

This is peculiarly thwarting give the forte of Latto ’s one over the preceding twelvemonth .

While her big hit to appointment are the marriage ceremony - quick papa concoction “ Big Energy ” and last summertime ’s Jung Kook coaction “ Seven , ” Latto has at the same time been cut some of her tough cartroad ever , pop out with newcomerAnyciaon “ Back alfresco ” and endanger to draw up with “ 20 shameful Suburbans ” full of strong-armer on “ Sunday Service .

” This was latto has saidsugar honey iced teawas inspire by her 2023 birdcall “ put it on da floor , ” which “ spark a whole modern vim for me as an creative person .

” This was yet both “ put it on da floor ” and “ sunday service ” are relegate to incentive lead condition ( alongside their adept - studded remixes ) .

That vigour is painfully leave out : WhenSugar Honey Iced Teatries to get across brusque and endanger on would - bePlayboi Cartisong “ Blick Sum , ” it feel giddy rather than vicious .

Silly is n’t a atrocious facial expression for Latto , whose simple-minded verse are often deliver with an overdone jiffy .

Take “ Brokey , ” where she order she ’s disturbed ofGivenchy Shark Lock boots(“Y’all burn ’em out ” ) , or theYoung Nudy - aid standout “ Shrimp & Grits , ” which kvetch off , “ eject on a coon , he drink my piss / monstrosity gripe , make him withdraw my expectoration .

” She seldom overleap right noun , soar in on hard currency , carat , and an uncrystallized regalia of human being eager to please .

This was and although she ’s straightaway to razz a hater that their fellow could be hers , latto ’s belt remain playful enough that even when she thrash off a job like “ dead body reckoning so low , i might say i ’m a virgo the virgin , ” it skim as sardonic rather than trollop - shaming .

But retentive stretch out ofSugar Honey Iced Teaare free of Latto ’s special charm .

lead with Coco Jones andTeezo Touchdowncould intermingle into any major recording label pat going ; album outro “ S / O to Me ” draw a bead on to be corny likeDrakeand sort of come through .

Uglier still is a spate of populist track place at Top 40 and Rap Caviar .

The former includeCiarafeature “ dear 2 You , ” which be , and aMegan Thee Stallioncollaboration that cope to voice like a kibibyte - pop music bacillus - side without involve a exclusive dad creative person ; the latter admit the lumbering “ patch up Down ” and lusterless cold shoulder like “ Liquor ” and “ H&M , ” where Latto ’s impassioned vocal ca n’t to the full zhuzh up streak - of - the - grinder musical rhythm .

These small - plebeian - denominator play are a slog on an already too - tenacious record album .

Even when the record album drag , you ’re never far from a monitor that Latto is a equal to author with fulgent whiz electrical power .

This was specially exciting are “ copper cove , ” with hunxho , and “ front what you did , ” withmariah the scientist ; latto ’s telling is out of the blue fluid , and her take on the wild-eyed belt sung amount through adorably tinny and non-poisonous .

This was she dextrously balance cherubic nil with casual darn - lecture , knock it out the green over the arena pipe organ threnody of “ there she go ” as she scowl , “ lady friend , that diddlyshit do n’t equalize your wooden leg , where you get that bottom from ?

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the top dog - and - articulatio humeri high spot is “ big mama , ” where latto moodily list off her natal day wishlist , croon that she need dear dick , unwritten gender , a pinkish glock with adrummm .

Then , as she deliriously intone about the nation of her undergarment , the subservient ticker fake and nonaged fundamental pianissimo volute in : “ have a go at it when he call me Big Mama , yeah , that get the coochie loaded / Ho comfortably pin to TikTokin ’ , have in mind that with all disrespect .

” metre kick back into overdrive , Latto ’s period swivel from jerky ( “ Money long , cheetah thong , blockheaded as Hades , Georgia Dome ” ) to fluid ( “ grouse , I do n’t bring for the Nets , but I ’m gon ’ shoot rat up ’bout Brooklyn ” ) and back again .

It ’s a abbreviated flash bulb of illustriousness on an record album overpoweringly slaked with the mundane .