Brent Faiyaz, tony soprano. | Song Review 🎵

R&B singer-songwriter Brent Faiyaz drops an engaging, intriguing, and somewhat unusual single with “tony soprano.”

Per Brent Faiyaz (Christopher Brent Wood) via “tony soprano.”, “I’m really a don, no dada / But I take care of everybody / Put that on everybody.” So, the R&B singer-songwriter is channeling his inner Tony Soprano on the single. Credited as the sole writer, Faiyaz enlists eight producers to assemble the track.  That’s lots of cooks in the kitchen! But, he reaps the benefits with some satisfying sounds including an enigmatic piano intro, tape strings, water drop sound effect, and the groove. Despite the mob boss persona, Faiyaz sings with a radiant vocal tone. He gets support from sweet-sounding background vocals. 

When “tony soprano.” fully establishes itself, the melody is tuneful. “These hoes mad fun / Bitch, I’m not that funny,” Faiyaz asserts in the first verse, continuing, “Go ‘head and laugh for me / Know you want that bag from me.” An interlude arrives around the 1:45 mark. The second, verse post-interlude is more rhythmic than the first: “Two new Glocks and two new Rovers, they don’t got rims checked (No) /…Nigga took one of your kin, how he ain’t get blammed yet?” Another outro, the second interlude, concludes the engaging, intriguing, and somewhat unusual “tony soprano.”.