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from his fourth mixtape '' Might Delete Later'' (2024). It features American rapper

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and was produced by T-Minus, DZL, WU10 and AzizTheShake.

Critical reception

Robin Murray of '' Clash'' described the song as "a muscular, pulse-quickening experience, made all the more so by situating it against the cartoonish ' Huntin' Wabbitz'". Paul A. Thompson of ''

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'' wrote that in the song, "Cole begins by approximating

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's style (spare, epigrammatic), then ratchets up the pace and word count. There is an indelible quality to the best Juelz verses that few rappers could ever replicate, but this is one of Cole's best showings on ''Might Delete Later''—and recalls certain stretches of ''

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'', where

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grafted more syllables onto airy

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beats than many of that style's originators ever had."

Charts

References

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