Timbaland featuring Drake “Say Something”
On “Say Something”, a recently leaked cut from Timbaland’s new Shock Value 2 album, the Virginia beat maestro teams with Young Money star Drake for what sounds, at least in this “unfinished” take, like it could be one of the bigger grabs from the forthcoming all-star collection.
A sort of big budget take on the pop-R&B-hip hop-meshing business that framed so much of So Far Gone, “Something” rides a slow churning grind of liquefied synth waves as Drake pulls off another slick display of his singing and rapping balancing act.
“I am the topic of conversation/ This is celebration/ Let’s toast to the fact that I moved out my momma’s basement”, he rhymes in the latest chapter of his on-going “rapper on the come-up” audio documentary; but it’s hard for him to completely focus on all the lavish benefits of his sudden superstar-dom when his mind is constantly being distracted by the mysterious whereabouts of a lost ex love (sweetly dubbed his “most important fan”) he yearns to get back in contact with (Cue the arrival of his ever-somber-toned, albeit pop-smart, crooner halve).
Has potential in a B-grade “Best I Ever Had” kind of way, though be prepared for the “finished” take to likely feature several doses of distantly-positioned Timbaland grunts as a reminder that it’s a Tim featuring Drake joint.
Shock Value 2 drops November 23rd.
DL: “Say Something” (alt)
i like this song