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P Songs: No Rhyme or Reason, Vol. 2 features Ari Lennox, BRELAND, Gunna, Jazmine Sullivan, Justin Bieber & Miley Cyrus.
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Ah, the fun of creating a playlist with limited criteria – freedom feels so free! Are you as prepared as I (we) am (are) to highlight the letter P? We’re back with another NO RHYME OR REASON playlist, covering the 16th letter of the alphabet. The main criteria for 🎧 P Songs: No Rhyme or Reason, Vol. 2 are that the title of the song must begin with the letter ‘P’ OR the word that begins with ‘P’ must be the first word of note. Also, worth noting, 🎧 P Songs: No Rhyme or Reason, Vol. 2 is the sequel to the 2020 compendium, 🎧 13 P Songs Selected with No Rhyme or Reason.
🎧 P Songs: No Rhyme or Reason, Vol. 2 features 🎙 Ari Lennox, 🎙 BRELAND, 🎙 Gunna, 🎙 Jazmine Sullivan, 🎙 Justin Bieber, and 🎙 Miley Cyrus among others. So, grab some ‘phones and your favorite snack and get into these stellar ‘P’ songs selected with NO RHYME OR REASON – Vol. 2!!!
1. Gunna & Future, “Pushin P” (Ft. Young Thug)
💿 DS4EVER • 🏷 Gunna Music LLC / Young Stoner Life / 300 Entertainment • 📅 2022
Examine the lyrics and what Gunna, Future, and Young Thug are going for makes more sense… sort of. Considering Gunna’s album is called Drip Season 4EVER, “pushin p” serves as a fitting torchbearer. These rappers are pushing the truth and of course, ample drip. Following an intro that shouts out producer 🎛 Wheezy, Gunna and Future kick the first verse off with a B-A-N-G. “Pointers in the Patek and my piece, I’m pushin’ P,” Gunna asserts, with Future following up with, “Copped new hammers for my P, we don’t want no peace.” Woo! There is no shortage of outlandish lines, with one of my favorites being “She not a lesbian, for P, she turn Pesbian 😏 (Pushin’ P, I’m pushin’ P).” My, my, my 😮! As for Young Thug, he’s in a world of his own – what’s new. Watch the music video 🎶📼 for “pushin P” and you have no clue what he’s even spitting. Mostly, it’s ample ‘P’ talk such as, “Okay, bought her a P, not a pill, a Porsche,” and the colorful, “I just fucked a cup of water (I did).” He closes with a KO on this hard-flexing gem: “Take the P out the alphabets, nigga, try to sort it out.”
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2. Ari Lennox, “Pressure”
💿 age/sex/location • 🏷 Dreamville / Roc Nation • 📅 2021
Although painfully underrated, the R&B singer/songwriter is incredibly talented. The utterly sublime, steamy single was produced by 🎛 Jermaine Dupri, 🎛 Bryan-Michael Cox, and 🎛 Elite. Not only is Ari Lennox is fierce AF on “Pressure,” but so is the backing instrumental, which has a dash of old-school. “Pressure” ranks among the best songs released in 2021.
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3. BRELAND, “Praise the Lord” (Ft. Thomas Rhett)
🎵 “Praise the Lord” • 🏷 Bad Realm / Atlantic • 🗓 2022
The colorful chorus, excerpted above, is the first section of “Praise the Lord” the listener hears. Next, BRELAND drops the first verse, which continues the praise. It’s not all Christian of course, as he offers up praise “for my bartender, turns a single into two / We went crazy out there last night, we need saving in this pew.” JESUS! Thomas Rhett enters the fray in the second verse, thankful for his children, his Chevrolet (of course), and “cold beer conversation and broken cowboy boots.” I guess that’s how they do it in country music! The music supporting BRELAND and Rhett is bombastic, energetic, and a blend of hip-hop, pop, gospel, and country. It is something to hear for sure! Tongue-in-cheek to the nth degree, “Praise the Lord” is certainly entertaining if nothing else.
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4. Jazmine Sullivan, “Put It Down”
💿 Heaux Tales • 🏷 RCA • 📅 2021
Prime examples of pleasure from Sullivan include “He keep me wetter than water” and “He’s so big, call him King Kong.” Oh boy, that’s a lot of BOY! Sorry – couldn’t resist! On “Put it Down,” Sullivan manages to balance her classic, elite, God-given vocals with the more modern, hip-hop-infused R&B sound of the 2010s/20s. Lyrically, “Put it Down” isn’t transcendent (DUH, it’s about D) but it’s certainly stimulating and titillating.
“I can’t help it, it’s a shame what he do to me (Me)
My girls ask me what it is, I say, ‘It’s the D’ (D)
I start going out my mind when he come around (‘Round)
That’s why he gets all my time ‘cause he put it down
He put it down (Put it down, put it down, put it down).”
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5. Justin Bieber, “Peaches” (Ft. Daniel Caesar & GIVĒON)
💿 Justice • 🏷 Def Jam • 🗓 2021
This isn’t a game-changing record, yet the more you listen, the more you find yourself hypnotized and wooed. In the context of Justice, Bieber loosens up (the profanity on the chill chorus), while still focused on the modus operandi, LOVE. Both Caesar and GIVĒON devote their verses to their respective lovers ❤. “Peaches” is one of 2021’s crowd-pleasers.
Appears in 🔽:
- Peach: 3BOPS No. 23 (2021)
- Awesome Songs: March 2021
- 10 Incredibly Peachy Peach 🍑 Songs
- 40 Best Songs of 2021 (So Far)
- Best Songs of 2021: Top 20
6. Little Simz, “Point and Kill” (Ft. Obongjayar)
💿 Sometimes I Might Be Introvert • 🏷 AGE 101 MUSIC / AWAL Recordings Ltd • 📅 2021
Obongjayar lays claim to one of the best parts of the song early on – the chorus:
“I do as I want, I do as I like
I no watch face, I no fear nobody, nobody
… Point and kill.”
Little Simz follows up with a lit first verse, which includes traditional English lines as well as highlights her Yoruban roots (“Daddy say he want me to be lawyer, be doctor / Riff raff, kiddi cohn, window shopper / Oh, yeah, fine boy, take away auntie”). The second time, however, she performs the infectious chorus herself, before dropping another tough, groovy verse (“Got the devil tryna tempt me, but I know better /Never been the type to not acknowledge all the signs”). Obongjayar doesn’t disappear! He drops the final chorus and outro. Have I mentioned “Point and Kill” is a certified bop?
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7. Miley Cyrus, “Prisoner” (Ft. Dua Lipa)
💿 Plastic Hearts • 🏷 RCA • 🗓 2020
“Prisoner, prisoner, locked up
Can’t get you off my mind, off my mind
Lord knows I tried a million times, million times, oh-woah
Why can’t you, why can’t you just let me go?”
Besides strong, passionate vocals (“I tasted Heaven, now I can’t live without it / I can’t forget you and your love is the loudest”), Cyrus and Lipa get sweet production work courtesy of 🎛 The Monsters & Strangerz and 🎛 watt. Ultimately, Cyrus and Lipa ‘do the damn thing.’ Add passionate lyrics, a minor key, and excellent production and “Prisoner” is a certified bop.
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8. Future & Lil Uzi Vert, “Plastic”
💿 Pluto x Baby Pluto • 🏷 Atlantic / Epic • 📅 2020
“Yeah, Cartier / Yeah, purple tint / … Yeah, I’m too lit / Yeah, got your bitch…” Yes, Future and Lil Uzi Vert give us mad flows. What they eschew is substance, focusing mostly on drip 💧 and sex 👉👌. Besides being greedy, Future asserts, “Yeah, Coupe dirty / Yeah, the drank dirty / Gotta buy the case,” which also classifies as gluttony (read up on your seven deadly sins, peeps) Later, when he brags, “I got two Glocks on me, K-Ci, JoJo,” a prime example of violence. As for Lil Uzi, he’s not only greedy (“Gettin’ them racks / Yeah, spendin’ them racks”) but lustful, bragging, “I got a bitch for every week and all my bitches freak / I got a bitch for every day of the week.” Dante Alighieri (The Divine Comedy) wouldn’t approve of Lil Uzi Vert and his multiple bitches in any way, shape, or form… at least, we believe he wouldn’t.
Appears on 🔽:
- Plastic: 5ive Songs No. 67 (2020)
- Inferno 😈🔥 II: More Songs Reppin’ 9 Circles of Hell
- 13 Ear Catching Songs About Plastic
9. Sabrina Claudio, “Put on Repeat”
💿 Based on a Feeling • 🏷 SC Entertainment / Atlantic• 📅 2022
Over sleek, sensual production by 🎛 Jonah Christian, Claudio is on autopilot from the jump. It is the second verse where things get naughtier. Even so, Sabrina titillates without getting explicit.
“If I could, I would have him for life
Ooh, yes, I’m beggin’
To touch on his perfect design, yeah, yeah, yeah
‘Cause his body is my favorite ride
Over and over, please let me
Off and back on one more time, yes.”
So, basically, he’s hot and great in the sack – got it Sabrina! We totally understand why she wants to “put on repeat.” Who wouldn’t? Furthermore, “Put on Repeat” is worth listening to repeatedly!
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10. J. Cole, “p r i d e . i s . t h e . d e v i l” (Ft. Lil Baby)
💿 The Off-Season • 🏷 Dreamville / Roc Nation • 🗓 2021
On the first verse, Cole asserts, “Pride be the reason for the family dichotomy / Got uncles and some aunties that’s too proud to give apologies.” True – FACTS! Of course, a huge selling point is the featured guest: 🎙 Lil Baby. Lil Baby has ‘been on a tear’ and that ‘tear’ continues on the second verse of “p r i d e . i s . t h e . d e v i l.” One of my favorite lines:
“Got my feet up, I paid silly bands to have sex on the jet
I don’t need ‘em, that shit in the past, I’m feelin’ like what’s next.”
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11. St. Vincent, “Pay Your Way in Pain”
💿 Daddy’s Home • 🏷 Loma Vista • 📅 2021
“Pay Your Way in Pain” commences with sort of this cabaret sound – throwback in quality. Soon enough, it transforms into this adventurous joint with a blend of funk and electronic cues. This quirky number is alternative through and through. If nothing else, St. Vincent delivers an ear-catching record that doesn’t conform in any way, shape, or fashion. I love the playful ways that she uses her voice here. The songwriting is also intriguing, telling a compelling story, characteristic of the artist’s music of the past. Specifically, the character seems to be facing plenty of pain as the adversity is through the roof from lack of money, being judged, becoming homeless – it’s a lot! “Pay Your Way in Pain” is quirky as albeit and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
Appears in 🔽:
- Pay: 5ive Songs No. 22 (2021)
- Awesome Songs: March 2021
- 40 Best Songs of 2021 (So Far)
- Best Songs of 2021: 50-36
12. Prince, “P Control”
💿 The Gold Experience • 🏷 NPG • 📅 1995
As filthy as it is, “P Control” is one badass song – one of those underrated gems. The sole rub? It overreaches as far as its explicitness. Regardless, where creativity and artistry are concerned on this lascivious number, Prince’s falsetto on the chorus is untouchable.
“Ah, Pussy Control, oh
Ah, Pussy Control, oh.”
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13. Natalie Grant, “Praise You in This Storm”
💿 No Stranger • 🏷 Curb • 📅 2022
So, what Natalie is saying is, we continue to have faith and praise Him even when it seems it’s not working? THAT’S RIGHT! “Praise You in This Storm” suggests that even when “I barely her You [God] whisper through the rain,” I ALWAYS remain faithful. That’s easier said than done but it’s important to have faith the size of a mustard seed, as ‘The Good Book’ says. Essentially, the Christian walk isn’t an easy one, even with God in your corner. Grant makes it crystal clear on this soaring ballad sure to touch souls worldwide.
“And I’ll praise You in this storm
And I will lift my hands
‘Cause You are who You are
No matter where I am
And every tear I’ve cried
You hold in Your hands
You never left my side
And though my heart is torn
I will praise You in this storm.”
Appears in 🔽:
- Natalie Grant, “Praise You in This Storm”: Sunday Refresh 🙏 11 (2022)
- 11 Songs Filled with Immense Praise 🙌
🎧 P Songs: No Rhyme or Reason, Vol. 2 [📷: 300 Entertainment, AGE 101 MUSIC, Atlantic, AWAL Recordings Ltd, Bad Realm, Brent Faulkner, Curb, Def Jam, Dreamville, Epic, Gunna Music LLC, Loma Vista, The Musical Hype, NPG, RCA, Roc Nation, Young Stoner Life]
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