Dingo Johnson - BACKSEAT (Video)
The man who raps better than everybody, debate your reflection. It’s funny how, knowing that fact, people still choose to live under these rocks but I have a strong feeling, especially with the singles released thus far, that Dingo is about to really grasp their attention, his everything is too wildly compelling to avoid. With his highly anticipated “I Should Be Famous” album getting dangerously closer to its release date, Dingo took it upon himself to not only gift us another banger but also the first visual treatment for the album & with Trent Owens behind the lens, you already know it’s gonna be a classic. This visual took me back to records like “Breathalyzer”, with its sinister lyricism & foreboding atmosphere.
The thing about Dingo is that, he makes every line count, there’s no filler within his lyrics that I’ve been able to pinpoint. His wit remains unmatched, “I’m high (hi) like como estas”, so simple yet so brilliant & probably one of my favorite opening lines to a verse cause it’s an automatic homophone/double entendre. The bars just continue to be hurled at the listener as they contemplate whether or not it’s actually a good idea to want to find themselves in the backseat of his ride, which is more than likely the trunk being that he’s undoubtedly caught yet another body with this one, no use staining those pristine seats of his.
I could sit here for hours on end pointing out the brilliance in his bars, “I’m strapped like Backpack” is so fucking simple but genius as he’s weaving a story about being on the hunt with this sequence but not sacrificing the wordplay within it. I just really admire how everything about this cut is concise but yet he’s doing so much within that time frame & with so little. And here I thought “I Rap Better” was his best work but I have a strong feeling, even more so after being blessed with this number, that this upcoming record of his will be his magnum opus. Everything from the features to the cover art to the man himself, points in that direction & I think it’s about that time that people get rid of that sense of typecast they attain when people like him have just been killing it for so long, they get used to it so it’s no longer exciting but personally, Dingo continues surprise me the more he continues to elevate his musical formula.