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Victoria Monét “Cadillac (A Pimp’s Anthem)”

“Cadillac (A Pimp’s Anthem)” is essentially an answer record, with Victoria Monét claiming the classic pimp trope for women in a way that’s aspirational for some of the audience and affirming for the rest. This is a clever enough high concept, but the magic is in how effortlessly Monét fits into this mode, this mood, this whole motif. Her voice sounds great paired with that dank and slinky bass line, which is generic enough to indirectly reference a lot of funk and rap classics but to my ear is most directly evocative of Outkast’s “SpottieOttieDopalicious.” It’s sort of like musical cosplay but it really flatters everything about her voice and taste in melody, and it embraces fantasy enough that a line like “we women been winning since from the beginning of your whole life” rings true in this context even if in real life it’s kind of a… debatable notion.

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