Put That On Your Playlist: Slump

Song: Slump

Album: Aquemini

Honourable mention: Player’s Ball (Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik)

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There it is, the most underrated song on the best album of all time. Where do you go when you’ve spent the previous song (i.e. Synthesizer) fretting about the lasting negative impacts and societal ills of our reliance on modern technology? You discuss your hustle and the grind that makes it all worth it.

Slump features a Big Boi at the peak of his dexterous and boisterous powers and, sitting in Andre’s place, two members of the Dungeon Family in Cool Breeze and Backbone. However, don’t think this means Three Stacks’s presence on the song isn’t felt deeply: it’s his son Seven that we hear crying in the background after all. Backbone and Cool Breeze show up admirably, but Daddy Fat Sax is the true showstopper here. “I wanted a piece of the pie for me and my family so I made it. Continue to sell dope, it’s payin’ the bills so you gon’ do it,” he raps despite knowing full well the perils that come with such a grind when “legislation got this new policy: three strikes and you’re ruined.” Big Boi’s verse succinctly resumes his career up to his point, from having worked at Steak ‘N Ale and not thinking about a pension to now having the “whole rap world fascinated.”

Dream big, folks.

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Beat: 9/10

Lyrics: 7/10

Overall: 9/10