Now, her Chicago counterpart—the rapping, singing powerhouse Tink—has dropped her remix of “Try Me,” and it, too, is delicate in its murderousness, in its intent to “lay dem boys down like a lotta dominoes.” (Because, of course, “we ain’t playin’ up in Chicago.”) But she uses another weapon to underscore her power, and to undermine her male counterpart: the pure-life magick-power that is childbirth, to monstrous ends. “Bout to drop a body, feel like I’m contractin’.” Later: “Take your baby out like it was his born day.” It’s the hardest tack ever, and makes one imagine a world, or at least a week, in which all that existed were versions of women remixing this song—the new one to beat, at the very least, and a new path for battle rap. Thank you Def Loaf, and thank you Tink.
Image via Tink/Twitter.
