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Trim: “Coconut Water”

Pitchfork·Mano Sundaresan·20 days ago
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I was having a chill Monday morning until I saw the amazing Rolling Loud clip of Trim belting her new song, “Coconut Water,” with every molecule of her body. She knows she has a hit, and she wants 10,000 sweaty dudes to know it, too. “Coconut Water” starts with those two unexpectedly freaky words, perfectly rapped, potentially ubiquitous, like Future slurring “wickedwickedwickedwicked” and Sexyy Red chanting “Skeeyee!” In Trim’s thick Geechee accent ( coca-nut wataa ), the words come alive and escape the contours of the waveform. She slightly tweaks how she says it each time, too, leaning a little harder into the wa on the second hook. She sounds a little like early Nicki , a little like Doja Cat , but mostly like she’s from Charleston, South Carolina , where West African languages and grammar brought by enslaved people maintain a strong influence in the area’s Gullah community.…

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