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Le1f

"Wut"

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July 23, 2012

Doing for booty-fiend club jams what Frank Ocean does for r&b bromance, Harlem producer/rapper Le1f (see Das Racist's "Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell") comes on like a drag-ball Missy Elliot on this single from his free Dark York mixtape. Name-checking Missy's "Hit 'Em Wit Da Hee" over slo-mo horn splats and bass drops, he shifts between horny snap-queen ("I need my oreos double-stuffed") and double-speed battle-rhymer, claiming the slur "light in his loafers" as a gay pride declaration likes it’s no big deal at all, which makes it even more of one.

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