Drunk and Hot Girls is the eight track from Kanye West's third studio album Graduation released in 2007.[1] The song features Mos Def, an artist who previously worked with Kanye on the track Two Words.
Background[]
The song utilizes a sample of Can's song "Sing Swan Song" from their album Ege Bamyasi.[2]
Kanye West stated that the "song represents me the most", adding on: "It’s my entire life, from being a five-year-old trying to reach for that porno magazine all the way to the thirty-year-old getting into an argument with his girlfriend. It sums up my whole fuckin’ life. Guys will go through a lot to chase women. A guy will get on a plane and go to the other side of the world to hit it for the first time, and won’t cross the street to hit it the second time. But as a man, your whole life is to provide for that girl in that white dress, that missing picture in your wedding photo. That was poetically put, if I do say so myself."[3]
Critical Reception[]
The song is considered one of Kanye West's worst tracks.[4]
Hot New Hip Hop calls the track a "Sloppy Masterpiece".[5] The Guardian describes the song as "a bold, albeit ugly, experiment, is a dense, lurching variation on Can's Sing Swan Song", going on to say "The sexual prospecting of Drunk and Hot Girls has the salty realism of a Judd Apatow comedy: "Please don't throw up in the car"".[6] Complex details the track as "All the misanthropy of Yeezus with none of the joy nor the benefit of Auto-Tune". Complex goes on by explaining "you're getting your money's worth: the worst Kanye hook, the worst Kanye flip, the biggest waste of Mos Def".[4]
Credits[]
Credits from liner notes[7]
- Performed by Kanye West, Yasiin Bey
- Written by Kanye West, Irmin Schmidt, Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit, Kenji Suzuki, Holger Schuering
- Produced by Kanye West, Jon Brion, Mike Dean
References[]
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduation_(album)#Track_listing
- ↑ https://www.whosampled.com/sample/263/Kanye-West-Mos-Def-Drunk-and-Hot-Girls-Can-Sing-Swan-Song/
- ↑ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-a-genius-in-praise-of-himself-64587/
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://www.complex.com/music/2014/09/awful-songs-of-15-amazing-artists/drunk-and-hot-girls
- ↑ https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/kanye-west-and-mos-defs-drunk-and-hot-girls-is-a-sloppy-masterpiece-new-song.1984467.html
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/sep/07/urban.shopping
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduation_(album)#Personnel
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