The result, a 14-track project fittingly called Scaring the Hoes, is a madcap blend of both artists’ styles: JPEG’s brash and brutal lyrics and beats colliding with Danny’s elastic flows and outrageous pop-culture references. In 2021, JPEGMAFIA said he wanted to record a mixtape with Danny Brown. “Scaring the Hoes,” JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown And if she can’t find answers, at least she can find a bit of comfort in the divine: “I try to remember the wrath of the Devil / Was also given him by God.” -J.C. She’s in a moment of searching, first for some connection in a bottle (“Sometimes a drink feels like family”) and later for some respite from the cycle of broken promises that “break you right back.” The choir isn’t there for spiritual authority but community, searching right alongside Mitski. Yet economy is once again Mitski’s strong suit, as she spends most of the song strikingly vulnerable, singing the spare verses over just a guitar. Thankfully, everything about her new single, “Bug Like an Angel,” is a surprise - like the timing, a mere year and a half after Laurel Hell, or the powerful choir that seems to materialize out of nowhere to echo her verses. When Mitski turned to synth-pop on her last album, Laurel Hell, fans were worried she’d lost her element of surprise by sanding down and polishing her edges.
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