Hot Sugar - Leverage (feat. KOOL AD + Fat Tony + Lakutis + Nasty Nigel)

[@yusnotyus]

still bumping in 2024

[@rtyui136]

One of the best AD verses I've heard.

[@venumus]

srslytho

[@Jeff_Epstein_]

rtyui136 insanely dope

[@jmh31890]

It's the same one he drops on everything that he does. Definitely his best.

[@laythb7701]

I can confirm it is his best

[@juliantanderson9]

@@laythb7701this comment makes me picture Kool AD in Groucho Marx glasses and saying “i hear he’s incredibly handsome too”

[@PhilippWolgast]

i think it is very important for hip hop that these people exist..

[@Kid_Ikaris]

Certainly. A lot of whack shit will blow up but there will always be great rappers keeping the true spirit of hip-hop alive.

[@SeanVito]

Yeah modern top rappers are following a trend but this was refreshing

[@nativerambler9818]

I always come back to this song for the Kool AD verse. I always liked the other two verses also, but now that I looked up the lyrics for Fat Tony's verse, I see that thang is fire.

[@boxofjosh]

1st rapper is Kool AD. Check his solo tracks. Also check his tracks from Das Racist.

[@caydawgmcgovern7031]

Kool and Kass too. Good shit.

[@ilovemusic6042]

A year or two of this song i come back to it every now and then, the beat is so captivating really and all the verses go the FUCK in .

[@illchill316]

we re doing same things

[@damnedcarrot]

This has been my go to track for years now.

[@KLK01]

The Kool Ad verse is the best part.

[@ezzzzie]

+FUBAR Only natural from the best rapper in the world

[@dahalofreeek]

KOOL AD is one of my absolute favorite rappers. There's no one quite like him.

[@Somnivers]

The instrumental is fucking unreal.

[@SwissChi]

needs more lakutis

[@beccaxx2522]

this will always be a bop

[@tomasruckett]

Hot Sugar with that mouse heartbeat sample. Such innovation.

[@BodoBuess]

Appreciate the detailed breakdown! Could you help me with something unrelated: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (air carpet target dish off jeans toilet sweet piano spoil fruit essay). What's the best way to send them to Binance?

[@NoMetaWorldPeace]

Goddamn, that kool ad verse never gets old

[@jeffjoff7800]

Fat Tony verse is the shit.

[@benschweid2108]

all verses are dope and its a dope song. uber slept on

[@spaceblasteremoji9754]

simple game putting letters together like scrabble

[@hunterl3358]

lakutis should have had a full verse

[@jonathanangelo1983]

+blaze murphy Still, no less impact. Everybody rocked the shit out of this.

[@chasenorton3362]

+Jonathan Angelo How is it so fucking dope but so brief?

[@jgvtc559]

+Chase Norton cuz it's kuuuuuuuuuuuuuutis

[@gooch2215]

Came back 4 years later to hear that COLD COIN SACK bit!

[@waynegraham84]

Whats the whole line?

[@erakor9]

Kool AD's flow is crazy

[@0bearrr15]

Fat tony goes off

[@briana656]

Killed it.

[@fattonyrap]

much love

[@christophertrainor637]

This is a serious piece.

[@LiveDissection]

I will never stop coming back to this first verse and the contemplative visuals for inspiration

[@djcomplex4415]

[Verse 1: Kool A.D.] All I want is a house and some money to travel A simple game putting letters together like Scrabble Sisyphus's lesson crushing the rock into gravel Which of us truly trust how they knocking the gavel? Plus though I be floating around like I'm stocking the ammo Tucking the Glock in the camo Fuck it, I'm lost in the channels Surfing on surfaces, cursing in cursive and shit Hurdling hurdles and hares And turtles aware of the circles and squares To a certain degree A person you certainly see Is certainly, certainly me Or whatever, Kool A.D., Till they pulling the curtain on me I'm Erick Sermon, the generic version Virtually not, but I'm Parrish too Shut the fuck up, I'll embarrass you Nah, don't care, I'm so careless my dude Yes I'm aware I'm a fool Sexy and arrogant too Son and the heir to nothing in any apparent view Thought I told you like once or twice you should stare into my raps like Pun once dared us to And we did Who do we kid? Why do we do what we did when we did? Ooh baby ooh baby shit Groovy You feel me? Sit back, cold beverage, writing leverage [Lakutis] Groovy You feel me? Sit back, cold beverage, writing leverage [Verse 2: Fat Tony] You know me, I don’t need no introduction and shit Girl screaming “Anthony Obi, hold me!” Like she know me, she won’t quit Already got one holding my arm in this But I think I’m bout to add two to the list And I just might add you if you equipped With some good sense, and some good teeth And feeling free like a loose leaf, single sheet On the beat I’m crisp like a Pringle be I’m on 34th Street like Kris Kringle be Just little old merry me, unmerrily Calling up my agent, flagrant Nigga got me sleeping on the pavement Why the fuck you think I made this wavelength? Ain’t tryna live in my relative’s basement It ain’t easy being meezy, when a measly Hundred dollars lost can make a nigga queasy I need my full fucking feezy Ever since I got grown, left home Been feeling all alone like fish a la carte, bitch this is the start Of me being a meanie to you niggas seeming teeny You stringy like some linguini, thinking that you can see me That seemingly might be easy but you’re quite beneath me You’re stinky like a queef be From a bitch that hasn’t washed for weeks Hoes known to jock you geeks Cause they think you so unique But solely you’re phony and only phoning in when you speak I’m going in on your freak, weekly and reeking of weed Sweetly I’m sealing the deed, revealing just what she need Like honey to bees or chickens to feed Or money to me or A/C to a hundred degrees I smoke nothing but trees, you are nothing to me And while you’re living in dreams I’m reeling in reality [Verse 3: Nasty Nigel] 59 pounds on the Eurostar in France Business Class feature Sauvignon in the glass I don’t know French Lucy teach it when she speak I study in the bed and I only learned “Oui!" Swimmies in the duffle cause I’m tryna hit the beach And I’m tired of the Rockaways, too ugly for my feet No room for devices, leave it at the beep The only thing magnetic is the hotel key So baby don’t tell me that we living next week Cause I’m feeling this week, life is feeling this sweet What type of feeling this be? what kind of strain is this weed? I know you understand me since we’re on the same beat You can hear the foreign silence ringin as I pen this verse Moleskine with the Star Wars cover, Peroni quench the thirst I ain’t about shit cause I recycle my outfits Dawg, I’m walking on the outskirts of a country unknown 5 Euros a six-pack; Victor is you with that? My eyes rolled to the top, drop while I sit back World’s Fair globe trotter popping on a greater scale In the end might leave it all, that’s word to Christian Bale (Spoiler)

[@ivanmunoz2984]

Pretty good but you missed lakutis

[@stoychostanev]

just can't believe this has been watched only 150k times...

[@eveaci]

Woah, truth. And many of those views are losers like me rewatching this daily.

[@JacobHartnett]

Wow this is a nice stumble across for me. hot sugar + rando = Awesome.

[@braaaaaains]

This song could have seriously been Hot Sugar w/ KOOL AD and Fat Tony and it would already be perfect, but they just had to go above and beyond.

[@DuctTapeUtopia]

Fat Tony's got that Big Boi flow.

[@Somnivers]

What is it about Kool AD and Lakutis that makes me come back and listen again ?I don't even listen to rap or hip-hop, I listen to progressive rock LOL.Music transcending genre, go figure.

[@goldenage773]

maybe because they dont try to be so serious or hard like 99% of other rappers, they have a silly sense of humor that is what hip hop needs

[@skyhighlar4444]

Maybe it's cauze, this system putsusless then knocking rock into gravel? But I may contest that, which of us truly trust how they knocking the gavel?..

[@LilGamerMan]

Somnivers bro ur trans!!!!!!

[@Somnivers]

Ray Lewis don't think so ;)

[@lizriker3937]

This would have been even sicker with Antwon.

[@shlaz196]

i only listen to this song for kool ad

[@BeastCars18]

Kool ad is the king of spittin lazy verses

[@charlie21ride]

more people need to hear this, don't stop killing it

[@vestfoldify]

Fat tony kills it

[@jacobmoore573]

best kool ad verse oat

[@dinzdollaz]

Dope! Nothin like an ill song with 5 dudes walkin around Coney Island after Hurricane Sandy.

[@rahulguha3821]

if rappers sold stock id be buying up fat tony for sure - the nxt big thing

[@funakiisgod1743]

Kool ad the greatest

[@bophomet2112]

Kool as looks like a modern teddy Roosevelt

[@demon69120]

Something about Hot Sugar is very appealing and magnetic. Not just his music, but something about his appearance.

[@joeyrunge2255]

Yo yo SHIZZiz fire mane no sleeping y'all lyrical alarm cloc

[@samuelbass5033]

If you watch this and feel it on a spiritual level, you're already family.

[@malonedies]

I BEEN POPPIN

[@Roshby54]

Here's the issue. It's not that anyone else is bad, in fact on any other song imo all their verses would be dope as hell and even on this track they are. The issue is that Kool was allowed to have the first verse and he sets the most amazing tone and tempo to the beat that the other verses don't build off of, but choose go in completely different directions. This isn't the worse thing that's happened, and again all the verses are sick; but Kool's was just too good. Lyrics aside as well, just listen to the sound of their flow; the faster ones which normally would be more impressive don't sound as consonant as opposed to Kool's hazy ramble which fits the beat better. Of course, this also is all subjective.

[@lucyregter7924]

nailed it

[@RemovalVideo]

I found your commentary really interesting, particularly in your consideration of flow! That aspect really made me think, and I wanted to offer an perspective based on what I gathered from that excellent flow-based approach you detailed. I would say the entire song operates as a negotiation, wherein leverage plays the central role. Kool AD offers the initial position, a slow, "hazy ramble." You mention it fits better with the beat, and I would agree--given that, one could then argue he has the superior bargaining position, which would grant him leverage in the negotiation. The counter-offer comes from Fat Tony, with his markedly faster and more aggressive take, which I agree is cool but not quite as suited to the beat as the initial, glove-snug fit flow from Kool AD. Enter Lakutis, who is the mediator, repeatedly, identically restating his own assessment of the negotiations via a crackle-rich phone's filter, which is a device of pure communication between physically distant parties (a telephone only serves if the parties are not right next each other, otherwise, why use a telephone? Note of course, "telephone" comes from the roots "tele" meaning "distant" and "phone" meaning "sound," so it's by definition a device of communication across non-negligible distance). Lakutis's strict repetition is like the middle-man ironing out the two sides' positions so they can reach an agreement on terms and then come to a compromise. That compromise is Nasty Nigel's middle-ground flow, which is definitely slower and more relaxed than Fat Tony's and faster than Kool AD's, but definitely leans closer to Kool AD's overall flow. Thus, at the end of this negotiation, while they reach a consensus on how to end the song--which flow is best for this beat--Kool AD's take earns the song's favor with the slight preference evident in Nasty Nigel's more relaxed flow. It is not Kool AD's flow exactly, but it's as close as they can get and still reconcile it with Fat Tony's. It's not a perfect, one-way, absolute resolution, it's a compromise between the two positions. While we're on the topic of negotiation in this song, to briefly treat the visual component, you can spot multiple symbols of failed or impeded communication throughout the video: a bird tagged on a pillar that can never chirp (or tweet!) because it isn't real, written language tagged on a wall that is obscured by Kool AD in the foreground (whose very head teases the language by operating as one of the missing letters), Kool AD examining a bottle on the beach that nevertheless lacks a message for him to find, a run-down video game cabinet that can never serve its singular purpose to entertain meanwhile Fat Tony is performing multiple acts of entertainment in the background (rap and dance), a phone left dangling off the hook that is useless without Lakutis animating it, painted pictures of famously communicative and intelligent whales and dolphins that are stuck lifeless as decorations that are unable to call out to their pals despite them being depicted so close to each other, and of course the beat-up "Eldorado Arcade" signage that's burnt out and unable to act as the very beacon of communication it ostensibly should be (doubly so since it's not merely a sign but an electrical sign). Interestingly not just the lettering itself is made of lights, but the text is also framed with even more lights to further highlight the enlarged language, yet none of these can function based on the apparently abandoned nature of the setting. The giant-fonted sign can still presently be read, though it grows difficult in the evening light, and without its electric lighting enabled its futility of communication will soon come to light come night time. Also, it is notable that Eldorado is quite literally a rich name to employ here: El Dorado is of course the fabled city/empire/etc. of gold, but the rusted-out sign in the video is far from bring appropriately glamorous to befit the namesake, though it could also be a play on the adage that "silence is golden," an ironic quip given that this is a rap song and rap is of course a lyric-dependent musical form, the antithesis of holding your tongue. Given that this sign of gold is in a silenced arcade that clearly no longer functions, it could be a subtle invitation to abandon communication for being pointless and thus acquire the wealth of golden silence. Much like how the song demonstrates that in a matter of merely two opposing sides, you'll still only ever get a compromised version of either side, perhaps this is a criticism of the ultimate futility of communication in general for its inability to simply convey an idea one to one, mind to mind, thus, perhaps the solution is to rebelliously embrace silence. Adding to the irony of the park's name referring to silence being golden is that this present discussion of flow examines how this anti-communication song is itself actively discussing the negotiation of different styles of communication, namely flows--or forms of audibly dispensing words (and note flow is not necessarily the words themselves, but just the pattern of issuing utterances, as you mentioned in your post). But ultimately, the video ends by revisiting that opening image of a picture of a bird (which itself is an echo of the video's opening title image of a lone, actual bird) to remind us of the artificiality of what just transpired in the video. Any painting of a bird is only ever an artistic representation of the actual conception of a bird, of course, so similarly consider "Leverage," which is a musical recording. We're not actually hearing these guys' words in this collection of audio data. Their speech is artificially constructed (they wrote it, they recorded, they produced it, they released it) for the purpose of creating this aesthetic experience--they aren't just talking to us and we're just overhearing to them have an argument on how best to communicate over a beat. But we are getting a representation of that discussion via this track and even then, we only reach that discussion indirectly via interpretation of that artistic expression (or "song"), much like a painting of a bird can never actually replicate the exact, precise bird no matter how excellently crafted it is, but you can still get the rough idea across of a given bird. See the footage of the flock of seagulls flying around a little over halfway through the video, which serves to showcase what "real life" birds--or communication--are and what they are capable of at their greatest height, literally soaring high above the bounds of gravity--but that which artistic depictions will never actually replicate. So this song, itself a discussion of communication, can never actually achieve perfect communication: it'll always sound the same when you press play (no matter how much one appreciates this song, it'll never respond), and your experience of it can only ever be what you make of it, but it can never be exactly what they intended to communicate to anyone since, as the video/song makes evident, communication via recording (or any artistic or otherwise constructed expression) just can't do justice to actuality. Communication is a series of negotiations that merely end in compromise that leave neither speaker nor receiver completely satisfied with the exchange, much like the competing flows of this song never quite synchronize, so much as co-inhabit the world of this song. This can easily extend to commentary of life itself, where people living together on this planet can only attempt to drive towards a semblance of a greater, wider understanding among disparate minds, but we can't actually achieve true mental synchronicity, only an agreement to co-exist despite each of our differences. However, regardless of what is at stake in any given state of difference between parties that should emerge in the course of living, in order for things to tend towards breaking in your favor, all you need is leverage.

[@BeachDreams75]

@@RemovalVideo is nobody going to acknowledge this dude's insanely in depth comment lol

[@nirushansivakumar5519]

@@RemovalVideo which of us

[@fordrac1ng81]

Beat changes which sets a different tone and pace.

[@savannaparra]

love love love this

[@LasVegas1]

this is an amazing video

[@trevorjmichael]

Hot Sugar - Highly underrated.

[@maximillian-fox]

My friend was right Fat Tony has that Lion King shirt too

[@MrBrokoro]

"If Sisyphus is us I'm crushing the rock into gravel."

[@porkchopwarlock]

All I want is a house and some money to travel A simple game putting letters together like scrabble (Scrabble.) Sisyphus's lesson crushing the rock into gravel (Powder!) Which of us truly trust how they knockin' the gavel (Wow.)

[@08bourquem]

Have you ever had a dream that you do so much that you could do anything

[@YuvarajaEbos]

Great analysis, thank you! I have a quick question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (behave today finger ski upon boy assault summer exhaust beauty stereo over). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?

[@adenbuford7396]

Liked the second rapper's flow. Is Hot Sugar the producer / DJ?

[@RealCryptoshii]

thw second rapper is fat tony...and hot sugar is the producer/dj

[@rafagriful123]

2019 anyone?

[@SamSchilling]

2020, bruh

[@rafagriful123]

@@SamSchilling 2021

[@juliantanderson9]

22

[@louroc425]

Son and the heir to nothing and any point of view - smiths reference. It’s crazy how this hip hop thing works. Only people who cross genres like that would be in tune.

[@internethippy806]

this + the instrumental version = happy tom

[@ZombineProductions]

you as big as a fan as I am! They're literally the best rappers out there, there wordplay is insane, but no one sees is like me, except you it seems.

[@TheCheSlav]

Kutis very excited bout pin popping

[@jeromehopkins1935]

Phones it in, literally.

[@boxofjosh]

WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN? THIS IS NOW A DECADE OLD. UP TO YOU TO ELEVATE IT. DO IT.

[@racheek]

It says the EP is FREE but when you go to bandcamp they make you pay. Anyone know whats up? Can't find any links through google either.

[@ProgressOverPerfection]

Dope ass song and video. Fashion too. No one around my way thinks you can make it being yourself

[@harrythompson9315]

I love kool ad lazy style flow

[@ZombineProductions]

coin cold sack of juan microphone slappin tomorra what kinda mackin you wanntt

[@xanderwitt]

can hear casino all on this one... love

[@Biggitybongload]

Straight ballin

[@salsa4dayz]

I LOVE YOU

[@slugbones]

I'mma let y'all finish but that Anthony Obi part is still some of the coldest shit I ever heard. Legendary.

[@thebalaclavaproject]

no dislike so far. dope ass track is dope ass crack.

[@onetimeisawagoat]

anyone know were to find an instrumental of this?

[@patrickrock27]

So much better than McDonald's bah dabababa I love it!

[@TheKisame24589]

lakutis owned this shit

[@SeanVito]

Damn this was good

[@nativerambler9818]

is that the jersey shore?

[@SpaceTimeManipulatorSTM]

You always know who made the track because they're the one person in the video who doesn't speak.

[@TRILLBASEDGODFUCKME]

do you know where its from? its cool af

[@Phatbowlhits]

Finally after like a fuckin year i found this again ! 👌👌👌 for sure goin in my playlist so i dont lose it haha

[@AppleTrujillo]

Cant stop wont stop...

[@OiPUNK562]

like if hot sugar brought you here.

[@zenstiller]

Kool AD best rapper

[@jamesvoltage]

kool ad has had like two beards come and go since this was filmed

[@nirajdasilva4351]

this first rappers face looks like he wears Groucho glasses.

[@normangrubb9368]

but 4 real. why is dis just now released.

[@alifewithoutsolace]

man so eerie.

[@stkarkas]

hot stuff

[@dylanbrookshire3955]

Anyone got the Strawberry-Banana soundtrack?

[@andrewdietl4866]

sit back cold beverage

[@ineedahandlesoheresahandle]

gat damn this is fire

[@trustyourgutter]

⛽️⛽️

[@ieatpaycheacksmang1181]

Yoooo sugar u should right a verse in one of these songs I think u would be fucking awesome

[@javiramos01able]

Why does hot sugar look sleepy in every shot

[@jmh31890]

Goes so hard.

[@Forgivemeimsorry]

Might be redundant but I'm really digging this shit. I'm happy kool ad is still making good stuff outside DR.

[@dentashley2895]

Completely underrated

[@BuddyStephenson]

First 2 minutes and 40 seconds is great.

[@StokeCityFC44]

so dope

[@channel11-n]

Best kool ad verse?

[@MutterSalsa]

that drum is awsome

[@foneshawty]

been popping

[@nativerambler9818]

What is lakutis saying?

[@SavvygeMediaGroup]

sack a juan micropphone slap at your mom, what kinda mackin are you on been i been poppin

[@nativerambler9818]

@@SavvygeMediaGroup thanks man

[@davereyes9061]

my fav part 2:44-3:09