Electrik Red “Top Rankin”
Electrik Red‘s “Top Rankin’” may be an unreleased cut from the girl group’s earlier days (the group actually formed way back in ’05), but even with it’s age, it still serves as a nice companion to the other R&B goodies the ladies have given us so far this year.
The song is an updating of the 1978 Althea & Donna classic “Uptown Ranking”, to which the ladies of ER, as expected, embed a lip-licking, Vanity 6-like edge: “So you say you wanna a girl that can ride?/ Nice lips, thickness that’s nice/ Well I’m looking for a dude that can hang/ While I ride that — to the sun rise”.
Slightly icky references to “punanny pie” aside, like the original it’s based upon, “Top Rankin””s sleepy dancehall thrust is inviting, effectively re-igniting our anticipation for the triple-degree-peaking summer days ahead.
Elektrik Red’s debut, How To Be A Lady: Volume 1, FINALLY arrives May 26th.
DL: “Top Rankin’” (alt)
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