a few days ago i had the bassline of "where's my" in my head and i remembered how good this song was. since it came out in 2001 the first time i heard it was around the time of it's release and it had the sound of the club bangers of the time so i became a fan of it. with regards to adam f, i knew that the prior output was almost strictly drum & bass as i knew of "circles" and the likes. the news had also come out after "stand clear" or "smash something" that adam f was to do a straight up hiphop album.
for lil' mo it was one of the rising stars in the r&b and hip-hop scene and you had hits like "superwoman part II" with fabolous and the horrific "put it on me" by ja rule. note is that i'm not taking a shit on the latter since i don't want to kick someone when they are down but i did not like that like that song and i heard it everywhere that year. however "where's my...?" wasn't something that i heard in the plentyful but it's a great club banger with lil' mo excelling in the flow of the verses, to the extent that it's less sung and more rapped.
in context of "where's my...?" then "superwoman part II" is a good idea to mention since they are sonical cousins but then again i think there is another song that has to be mentioned. basically the impact of timbaland's production on aaliyah's "try again" was monumental on what was r&b and hiphop during the turn of the century along with productions of darkchild & shake'spere.
adam f took the idea of "try again" and jacked it up on steroids and instead of that waggly bassline with a moderate squelch you get a heavy buzz. the effect is fastmoving lfo controlled sawtooths pushing it to limit in the lower midrange. one would have to say that extent of using such typical sounds & aestethics for the timeperiod on "where's my...?" and on the rest of the album is dating it. however the song and the album in general holds up well with the incredibly crisp production and sans one questionable guest appearence it's a well recommended in general.
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