Four versions of one song and the one everybody argued about all week is the least interesting of them, Jay turns up with his first verse in about five years and it's fine, it's competent, he sounds like a man who read the room and decided not to embarrass anybody. The donk mix is where the real work went, that Mo Bamba overlay under the new bridge should not work and it does, and the Isley flip keeps the bottom warm instead of just loud. Acoustic 4:44 cut is the sleeper, I ran that one three times before I bothered with the rest. Way outside my usual, I live in Memphis tapes from thirty years back where the hats carry everything, but the low end on the donk mix is doing the exact job a Screw tape gives it.
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the donk mix wins because the bridge actually changes the floor. jay's verse is fine, which is not the same as necessary.
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Agreed on the donk mix, but the Isley flip is the one I keep coming back to. And what you're describing with the verse is the oldest problem there is, a beat doing more work than anyone rapping over it.
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