By absolutely no account besides my own, the best rap song to come out of Texas in the last year– and maybe more – is J-Dawg’s “Ride On 4’s.” It does not feature T-Pain nor is there an accompanying dance, where one would hypothetically use their appendages to mimic the act of driving around on large tires with almost equally large rims. It was the second of two singles on last year’s debut from Slim Thug’s group, the Boss Hogg Outlawz, a project that didn’t ever figure out how to market itself nationally and was eventually overshadowed by the marketing push for Slim Thug’s second solo album. For all of these reasons, you very well may have heard this song in the last six months, but it’s also not surprising if you did not.
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