After a steady few years of local producer-singers busting out tired Weeknd imitations (as was the case with Hopium’s trash single Dreamers), I began quietly begging for an artist to go all in on mainstream US R&B production. And now that it’s finally here with Right Now, I feel like a dog that’s finally caught up to the car it’s chasing. Is this good? I dunno. Hopium and co-producer M-Phazes nail the DJ Mustard-biting beat, heading into My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy territory with the blown out, autotune coda replete with lush orchestration. It’s a pretty bizarre, and commendable, breakdown of stylistic barriers. I have the feeling this song is trash, but if it is, at least it’s interesting trash.
Hopium : Right Now
