FYI.

This story is over 5 years old.

Music

PREMIERE: Listen to Saint Millie's "Flexin Fucking Fashion," Featuring Jinx the Natural

The Chicago rapper introduces the world to the elastic sound of new collaborator Jinx the Natural.

Photo courtesy of St. Millie

St. Millie has been kicking around the Chicago music scene for a little while, but in the last year or so he's really started to find his sound, embracing the kinds of weirder production flourishes and vocal processing that's marking a lot of popular rap coming out of the south while also finding a way to shore up his own more traditional Chicago lyricism. "Flexin Fucking Fashion" is, on one level, a pretty straightforward trap banger, but it's elastic and funny enough to go beyond the paint-by-numbers template that such a heavy beat can inspire. Gucci Mane would be proud of Millie's multi-syllabic flow and warped, Auto-Tuned vocals. There's no arguing with a song that includes the lyric "eat the pussy like Nutella."

But as great as Millie is here, the best thing about the song might be the explosive guest feature from Jinx the Natural, who somersaults onto the track like he's Young Thug's long-lost Windy City cousin. Jinx, Millie, and a third collaborator, Roy French, are preparing a project called Summer Nights that should be coming soon and promises to offer yet another sound—grunge/hipster, in the words of Millie's team—from a city full of sonic innovation. Check out "Flexin Fucking Fashion" below to get a sense of what that might sound like:

Follow Kyle Kramer on Twitter.