Odes to social networking are hard to pull off, and “Smartphones” is cheesy, but Trey’s falsetto shrieks remind you of the Trey from Ready and Anticipation who earned that sex Ph.D.ġ2. “I’ma take her to the motherfuckin’ hotel”ġ1. “I done gave her a little taste/Now she wanna have my babies” “I know it ain’t good, but these hos gon’ do what they want” “I can fuck ’em all the time, but I swear I never wife ’em” Assertiveness is sexy, but Trey sometimes goes overboard here. He turns that cliché into a slinky double-entendre serenade on the album opener, “Cake,” singing: “They say you can’t have cake/And eat it, too/But ain’t that what you supposed to do?/Ain’t ya supposed to eat it, too?/Ain’t that what you supposed to do?/Ain’t I supposed to eat it, too.” Trey then decides: “Cake’s on the menu.” And there will be no debate.ĩ. “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too” is one of mankind’s most illogical sayings. Justin Bieber goes with the grain with his nasally raps on “Foreign (Remix),” which…did Migos ghostwrite this?Ĩ. The sentimental message often gets lost in the chest-thumping, forcing us (especially women) into a tense relationship with R&B that’s been generally reserved for rap.

But misogynistic sing-alongs run the R&B charts right now (partially thanks to DJ Mustard’s sticky, monotonous beats). Of course, there’s space in R&B for saps and 16-bar singers whose voices have morphed with AutoTune. Trigga seems to target listeners who made Brown’s “Loyal” a sleeper hit.Ħ.

Like Chris Brown (or August Alsina or Ty Dolla $ign), he’s taken the rap persona to extremes. Non-cornrowed Trey has no time for humble-bragging or buttering up. Steal Yo Girl,” Trey borrows Keith Sweat’s throaty moan from “Nobody,” which might lead you to YouTube “Nobody” and “Twisted” and wonder the whereabouts of Kut Klose.ĥ. Trey sings, “I ain’t never gave no fucks.” In fact, “One fuck’s too much / / Unless you talkin’ bout us.” This famine of fucks seems to be the thesis of Trigga-this could’ve been its intro.Ĥ. Steal Yo Girl” (the alter ego whose superpower is taking another man’s girlfriend). The crassness continues till the final track (on the deluxe version), which marks the return of “Mr.

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