Summer is the season, sundresses abound and with just the right approach, romance can always blossom; it’s those heady possibilities that emerging artist Ayotemi explores in his latest post-hiatus single, “Whadido.”
Combining a smattering of beat-box, the spoken-word-singsong delivery like Musiq Soulchild and underpinnings of D’Angelo’s “Brown Sugar” (“Lemme tell you ’bout this girl, maybe I shouldn’t”), the breezy groove posits the New Orleans-based singer, songwriter and emcee Ayotemi as a brother intrigued by an often-seen ’round-the-way-girl and promising a slow and steady buildup instead of an instant conquest, running interference on another potential suitor while slyly stating his case over a sultry, mid tempo track with a swagger-injected, low-key feel : “Cuz I’ve been thinkin’ bout you, only you/forget about that other dude that you’re talking to. Compared to me you ain’t got [expletive] to lose/baby what’s your move, tell me whadido.”
By Melody Charles
Ayotemi – “Whadido”
