A Cold Song You May Warm Up To

In October 2022, T-WEEZY released the single 'Cold'. Here's our review.

On my first listening to the beat from the song, ‘Cold’ by T-WEEZY, I'm left thinking: this is an ordinary modern rap, or trap, song; there's nothing out of the ordinary. That's not to say ordinary songs are bad. Now and then comes an uncommon song that becomes a hit. Such song will probably be genreless, but most songs sound the same, otherwise you wouldn't have Hip Hop, Amapiano or rock. Songs have to be the same. Lucky if yours is different and becomes a hit.

But when you listen to the song more and more, you realize that what's important on the song are the words, not the beat.

'I can tell you how I feel', T-WEEZY  begins.

This is important: people need to express how they feel and we should know how other people feel. Of course, everyone has an interesting life story to tell, and T-WEEZY's lifestory is worth knowing, and maybe in the future he might want to rap about where he's been, who he's seen and so on, but we’re not there now.

'I need a hundred mill', he goes on to rap. Of course, a hundred mill is a lot, but the idea is relevant: we need money. 

I love the fact how rap has the capability to put you in a contemplative mood. The song delivers on this score. 

If T-WEEZY has you angry with his gangster delivery, he makes you smile when he says 'Nigga you're no competition'.

Critics of rap talk about how rap is all about money and being showy ('New jacket; it's leather!’). Whatever your thoughts on that, T-WEEZY here has kept the rap tradition of saying one's better than the other. The boasting is alive.

And while T-WEEZY is in a foul mood for the most part of the song (he's even rude: he calls niggas stupid), he sings a bit at the end. That part he sings reminds me of Pop Smoke's 'Mood Swings'. 

T-WEEZY’s rhyming is commendable. To listen to him is to be enraptured in his world, it’s to be submersed in his voice.