100… 💯 | 5ive Songs

On the 16th edition of 5ive Songs, we select five songs that are 💯 – rather, they feature the number ‘100’ in their respective title.

On 5ive Songs, we (I) keep things short and sweet – no extra calories or needless fluff.  There’s a topic, five songs, and a short blurb that doesn’t exceed a paragraph.  Yes, it’s a playlist, but it’s a miniature playlist that shouldn’t take much time to consume.  On this edition of 5ive Songs, we select five songs that are 💯 – rather, they feature the number ‘100’ in their respective title.

1. Future, “100 Shooters”

Ft. Meek Mill & Doe Boy

High off Life • Epic • 2020

“100 Shooters” 💯 featuring Meek Mill and Doe Boy marks the 20^th track on High Off Life, the 2020 studio album from rapper Future. The trap banger was actually released as a single in 2019, long before the album materialized. Respectable by all means, “100 Shooters” checks off the usual boxes:  ear-catching production work (Tay Keith and Cubeatz) and a catchy chorus that serves as the centerpiece.

Each rapper gets their own verse, encompassing the usual topics. For example, Meek Mill focuses on drip (“Fifty ‘mil buried in my safe, that’s a graveyard”), sex (“Famous ho, she threw me that pussy, I’ma slay her raw, yeah”), and of course, ‘shooters’ (“Hundred shooters, I can get your clique hit”).  The needle isn’t moved, but hard flex is fully intact 💯.

2. AJR, “100 Bad Days”

Neotheater • BMG Rights Management • 2019

“Woah, when all is going wrong and you’re scared as hell / … Maybe a hundred bad days made a hundred good stories / A hundred good stories make me interesting at parties.” One of the biggest pros for “100 Bad Days” 💯, a stand out from the 2019 AJR album, Neotheater, is the sick production work.

Groovy from the onset, “100 Bad Days” is chocked-full of awesome sounds, including the anthemic, brassy chorus, the best section of the record. On the verses, Jack Met highlights ‘bad’ happenings exemplifying the ‘millennial’ tilt. But, as the chorus makes crystal clear, Jack and company are turning bad into good.

“Maybe a hundred bad days made a hundred good stories
A hundred good stories make me interesting at parties
No I ain’t scared of you
No, I ain’t scared of you no more.”

3. Rich Brian, “100 Degrees”

The Sailor • 88rising / 12Tone Music • 2019

“It’s a hundred degrees / Why you feelin’ down? What’s the problem? / We just here to be free…” Rich Brian keeps things short but sweet on “100 Degrees” 💯 from his 2019 sophomore album, The Sailor – quite underrated in my opinion!

“100 Degrees” is an irresistible single with its pop sensibilities. The potent chorus, excerpted above, continues as follows, in all its glory: “It don’t feel like this often / Bumpin’ to the radio with the air so cold as the moonlight glows / No, we don’t give a fuck, we ain’t gotta change a thing no more.”

4. Logic, “100 Miles and Running”

Ft. Wale & John Lindahl

YSIV • Def Jam • 2018

“New York to L.A., Hawaii, and Japan / I’m the motherfuckin’ man, ‘least I’m feelin’ like I am / Got the whole wide world in the palm of my hand / But don’t give a goddamn, I’m Sam, I am.” Grammy-nominated rapper Logic enlists Wale and John Lindahl for the grooviest song from his 2018 LP, YSIV, “100 Miles and Running” 💯. Here, both distance (“100 miles”) and tempo (running is a fast action, duh) are clearly a factor.

Safe to say, Bobby goes TF off, delivering his most agile rhymes of the LP.  Wale doesn’t do too shabby for himself either, eating the beat alive during his guest verse (“Been the talk of the town, n***a, Virginia, Maryland / Did it all for the capital, hope you haven’t forgot”). As for Lindahl? His falsetto is fierce to the nth degree.

5. Mac Miller, “100 Grandkids”

GO:OD AM • Warner • 2015

“I swear to God I put the hero in heroin / These flows, kilos, I could sell snow to a ski slope / I could sell evil to the devil / Nonbelievers to a temple / Shit, I could sell water to a speedboat.”

The late, great Mac Miller absolutely kills it on “100 Grandkids” 💯, the crème of his cleverly titled 2015 album, GO:OD AM (it’s a swear word, if you couldn’t figure it out).  Miller is incredibly creative with his words dropping some sick punch lines. He manages to make “grand kids” and “100 grand” related.

Among his best lines:

“When I first made a hundred grand, thought I was the shit
When I first made a hundred grand, thought I was a king.”

He’s thought he was “the shit” and a “king” when he made $100,000.

100… 💯 … 5ive Songs No. 16 [Photo Credits: 12Tone Music, 88rising, BMG Rights Management, Brent Faulkner, Def Jam, Epic, The Musical Hype, Nathan Dumlao, Pixabay, Unsplash, Warner]