Foggieraw Soundtracks A Sweet Romance On “Love Don’t Cost A Thing”
Foggieraw’s style is hard to describe. It’s smooth and awkward at the same time. He consistently chooses elegant R&B production and laid back hip hop beats to vibe over. He does so, however, with a flow that often sounds rambling, and improvisational. There’s a sense of unpredictability with Foggieraw that makes each one of his releases exciting to parse over. “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” is no exception. The song allows Foggieraw to bring his borderline spoken word approach to a song that evokes the smooth soul classics of yesteryear.
“Love Don’t Cost a Thing” has a guitar groove and a chorus that sounds plucked out of the late 90s. Foggieraw’s singing voice is assured and soaring, while the verses, delivered in the artist’s signature style, register as shy and earnest. It provides a compelling musical tension, especially when the verses transition to the chorus and back. The whole song is underpinned by finger snaps and breakbeat that gives the rest of the instruments on top of it texture. Foggieraw hasn’t tinkered with his formula so much as refined it. We look forward to the album that accompanies “Love Don’t Cost a Thing.”
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Foggieraw Juxtaposes Gritty And Smooth R&B Sounds
Quotable Lyrics:
You the fist girl I met when I moved to this dumba*s city
You was pretty but you wasn’t too pretty
Really wanna kill me like John Tucker must die
Knew I acted sh*tty but I wasn’t too sh*tty, was I?
About The Author
Elias Andrews is a music and entertainment writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH in 2024 as the lead night shift contributor, which means he covers new music releases on a weekly basis.
In the year since joining, Elias has covered some of the biggest and most turbulent stories in the world of music. He covered the Drake and Kendrick Lamar battle, and the release of the disses “Family Matters” and “Meet the Grahams,” in particular, in real time. He has also detailed the ongoing list of allegations and criminal charges made against Diddy.
Elias’ favorite artists are Andre 3000, MF Doom, pre-808s Kanye West and Tyler, The Creator. He loves L.A. hip-hop but not L.A. sports teams. The first album he ever bought was Big Willie Style by Will Smith, which he maintains is still a pretty good listen.
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