Run The Jewels, “Love Again (Akinyele Back)” feat. Gangsta Boo

Hahah OH GOD I hope you didn’t click on that before reading this because this song is extremely NSFW. Watching this at work would be a bad idea because first it will make you giggle and then it will make you feel, as Kimmy Schmidt would say, “like, your crotch gets a headache?” It reminds me a bit of Nine Inch Nails’s “Closer,” and not just because of that thumping, looping, pulsating, almost grinding bass line. I’m talking about the very sexual nature of the imagery, which is basically high-def fauna-on-flora porn, set to syncopated triplets (we’ll let “hus-ba-land” slide, because it works). A bee unfurls its, um, proboscis, and uhh, pollinates a pink flower cavity dripping wet with dew, and gets ahhh, pollen all over its little bee face. On top of all, that a wiggle after-effect reminds you to feel like you’re being jackhammered.

Oh also the lyrics, lol. The first half of the song is Killer Mike and El-P trading verses about sexing, interpolated with an utterly ridiculous hook (“dick in her mouth all day”). But don’t be offended yet — Gangsta Boo gets hers, as a rapping, anamorphic VENUS FLY TRAP, which, when open all the way, looks like a full, estral swelling. Wait for her chorus.

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