Saweetie, Best Friend | Track Review 🎵

Rapper Saweetie, assisted by fellow, Grammy-nominated rapper, Doja Cat, brings the heat (and friendship) on the enjoyable “Best Friend.”

One thing that’s ‘all the rage’ these days? Female rap collaborations! That’s right, such collaborations can totally break the internet and blow everybody’s minds! A prime example was 2020’s 🎵 “WAP” where 🎙 Cardi B and 🎙 Megan Thee Stallion took “some whores in this house” (and “wet-ass p-word”) to no. 1 on the Hot 100.  The question is, can 🎙 Saweetie, assisted by 🎙 Doja Cat have the same effect with 🎵 “Best Friend”? 

“Best Friend” is a brief number that just runs past two-and-a-half-minutes in duration.  That’s a ample time for Saweetie and Doja Cat to be unapologetic! With numerous songwriters on deck, it’s Dr. Luke and Rocco Did It Again that do work behind the boards.  They give the rappers a minimalist backdrop: 808s/trap drums and a minor key synth.  It’s perfect fuel for the fire as we’re made aware of the ‘bad bitch’ status from the jump. This is particularly clear on the centerpiece, the chorus:

“That my best friend, she a real bad bitch
Got her own money, she don’t need no nig’
On the dance floor, she had two, three drinks
Now she twerkin’, she throw it out and come back in...”

Of course, each rapper has their own one-liners whether it’s “I hit her phone with the tea, like ‘Bitch, guess what? / All the rich-ass boys wann fuck on us!” (Saweetie) or “That’s my best friend, if you need a freak / I ain’t dumb, but motherfucker, she my Tweedledee” (Doja Cat).

Final Thoughts 💭

With these two rappers on the track, the expectation was a banger, and that’s the result.  Neither Saweetie nor Doja Cat are transcendent in the least on “Best Friend” but hey, it’s quite enjoyable. Nothing wrong with camaraderie! 

🎙 Saweetie • 🎵 “Best Friend” (Ft. Doja Cat) • 🏷 ICY / Warner • 🗓 1.7.21

[📷: ICY / Warner]