42 Dugg & Roddy Ricch, 4 Da Gang | Single Notez 🎶

On the 20th edition of Single Notez 🎶 in 2021, we provide some quick thoughts on the single “4 Da Gang,” by 42 Dugg & Roddy Ricch.

🎵 Single/Song/Track: “4 Da Gang”

📻 Genre: Rap

🎙¹ Lead Artist/Band: 42 Dugg & Roddy Ricch

🎙² Featured Guests: N/A

🎼 ✍ Songwriters: Dion Hayes (42 Dugg), K. Meine, R. Schenker, Roderick Wayne Moore Jr. (Ricch), Tavian Carter

🎛️ Producers: TayTayMadeIt

💿 Album: N/A

The Single Notez 🎶

➕ “4 Da Gang” samples German heavy metal collective, 🎙 Scorpion, specifically 🎵 “No One Like you”; this gives the record an interesting sound – some rock influence

➕ Dugg & Ricch keep things short, as “4 Da Gang” runs just past two-and-a-half-minutes in duration

➕ Dugg raps about typical rap fare: sex, drip, and drugs

➕ Dugg doesn’t bring much substance to the record, but I like his melodic, confident flow; he rides the beat by TayTayMadeIt with ease

➕ Catchy, melodic chorus by both artists (performing respective lines)

➕ Like 42, Ricch is confident AF on his verse: “Number one n****a, but they’re never gon’ admit it.”

➕ Ricch raps about expensive cars, sex (“I got model bitches that be tryna call me for sex”), and also seems to cleverly allude to his Grammy-nominated hit, “The Box” (“I got n***as in the box, gon’ call me collect”) 

➖ This is a banger but certainly offers up nothing transcendent or game changing, nonetheless, it’s enjoyable

Memorable lyric ✍️

“Pull up in frog eye, yeah nigga, we winning
Amiris on low, if not wheat Tims
Me and 42 pullin’ up twin Bentleys
Peanut butter seats all my windows tinted
Know I keep two flags on bang
I just dropped a Urus for the gang
Tied from the D to LA
Always keep it a hunnid K.”

🔏 In Closing

42 Dugg & Roddy Ricch don’t change the game with the Scorpions-sampling “4 Da Gang,” but they end up releasing a hella enjoyable banger, nonetheless.

🎙 42 Dugg & Roddy Ricch • 🎵 “4 Da Gang” • 🏷 CMG Enterprises II • 🗓 4.2.21

[📷: CMG Enterprises II]