MIMS: "Move (If You Wanna)"

If you’re anything like a human being with veins and nerve endings and stuff, you probably pulled for those plucky Michigan State Spartans in the NCAA Finals. Because rooting for the underdog is more fun; because Tom Izzo seems like a great guy; because Michigan needs a hug right now. So you called a few friends, learned how to pronounce Goran Suton, and sat down in anticipation of the partisan crowd at Ford Field erupting as the Spartans struck down Goliath. Of course, within ten minutes, the Heels opened up an insurmountable twenty-point lead, and you did one of two things: started ignoring the game and drinking heavily or admired how, hey, those NBA-bound assholes from UNC are incredibly fun to watch.

MIMS’ new single is something like that game. The Cool Kids are Michigan State and MIMS is Carolina. As the chopped and screwed hook stutters along over jacked-straight-from-Inglish minimalism, whispers of “biter” enter the mind. Then MIMS nonchalantly quips “I can get you hemmed up while I’m bein’ tailored,” enunciating with cool adamancy, and the beat reveals its quiet-loud-quiet structure that’s something like the atom of gully-ness; it becomes clear a hushed flow and a Darth Vader line suffice in keeping this track buoyant.

Quoth Raekwon: “shark niggas,” right down to the fly slow-mo acrobatics and levitating in the video, and I’d much rather hear Mikey and Chuck over this because MIMS’s aloof witticisms aren’t quite in the same league as “it bang so hard that I call it the bandwagon,” but it’s a formula that’s hard to fuck up. Once you get over the momentary impulse to call bullshit and throw the remote at the TV, it’s undeniably spectacular. If only swagger-jacking was always this fruitful.