This morning, on my way to the gym, this new 414JungleBaby track was smacking so hard that I turned the whip around to go home to write about it. It’s not actually spring yet—or maybe it feels like it—until I hear the first Milwaukee rap song of the year that makes you want to blow a paycheck on something stupid as hell. That original poster for Fat Joe and Mack 10’s 1999 bromance flick Thicker Than Water? Fuck it, we’re buying.
The line that really gets me on “Yo Baby” is when JungleBaby sings—well, sangs, really—the part: “I done touched a 100, that was so easy/I just blew a 20, that was so easy.” She delivers it with the kind of Auto-Tune-slathered melodic hunger you’d expect from vintage Dej Loaf or Mari Boy Mula Mar. It’s infectious, really.
She’s sliding over the fat-ass Milwaukee-style bassline, dissing the cuffed girls in her mentions and pretty much everyone breathing that doesn’t got it like her. I should probably focus on the technical production, but honestly, it’s just that raw energy that Misryoum readers keep asking for. It’s aggressive.
I gotta get my money up. The track—Yo Baby—is out now.
It’s that bass that does it. Deep, rattling the windows of the car while the city is still half-asleep. You know the sound, that specific mix of grit and melody that feels like a Tuesday morning transformation. Anyway, JungleBaby is back and the momentum feels different this time around, maybe because she isn’t really asking for permission anymore.