Doja Cat, Balut | Track Review 🎵

Grammy-winner Doja Cat continues to turn heads with “Balut,” the fourth single and 15^th track from her fourth studio album, Scarlet.

“Remember this, girls / None of you can be first, but all of you can be next / Woo, woo.” Oh, 🤼‍♂️ Ric Flair! Notably, 🎵 “Balut”, the 15^th track from 💿 Scarlet, commences with the Ric Flair sample, which reappears at the end. Before 🎙 Doja Cat raps one note on “Balut,” the tone is set, like, WOO! “Balut” separates itself from previous singles from the Scarlet cycle, with the sophisticated production (🎛 Yeti Beats and Rogét Chahayed). Hearkening back to jazz-rap and boom bap.  Even in the chorus, given the classy backdrop, Doja is kinder and gentler:

“Ah, uh, yeah, uh

Wow, uh, yeah, uh

Wow, uh, yeah,

It’s like takin’ candy from a baby.”

Well, the chorus isn’t deep, but you can read/listen to it for yourself and gather that.  Following the chorus, Doja goes in on the first verse.  On the verses in general, there are plenty of compelling bars and unique one-liners. In the first, Doja spits, “Dishes on my ass, still I’m thicker than some oatmeal / Glass houses, I don’t really like to keep my stones there / Oh, well, I’ll buy another property for four mill’.”  Um, wow! Later, in the second verse, she asserts, “Copy this (Copy this), copy that (Copy that) / Every bitch that is her copycat / Copy the greats, that’s my number one strategy / But beware that you can’t copy stats.” Is 🎵 “Balut” the second coming of rap? No, of course not, but it marks another entertaining, worthwhile single from the 🏆 Grammy winner.  Also, it should be mentioned, she never mentions actual balut explicitly… it’s named balut because “it’s a metaphor for Twitter Stans and the death of Twitter toxicity”.

🎙 Doja Cat • 💿 Scarlet • 🏷 Kemosabe / RCA • 🗓 9.22.23

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