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GUN TO MY HEAD

I've been out of sight, out of mind
With a gun in my bed
And I've been out of sight, out of mind
I ain't never been that hard to find

Gun to my head, my favourite track of the past week is 'Gun To My Head' from 'Vultures 2'. The song represents the first collaboration between Kid Cudi and Kanye West after several years of private rifts and public disputes on social media between them despite having worked for nearly two decades together.

Clocking in at a mere 2:16, the track has an infectious trap feel that combines heavy-bass driven beats with an 80s synth nostalgic vibe. It carries an introspective feeling of melancholy as if the two artists know they will never return to their lost days of youth, although it's clear that 'Nitrous Ye' is raging against the dying of his own middle aged light, with half mumbled sexual innuendos and ever defiant braggadocio.

But the lyrics operate on two levels, especially the 'gun to the head' metaphor and can be seen as relating to the intense feelings shared between Cudi and West, their strained friendship and creative partnership as well as, on a broader level, a metaphor for the relationship between a man and a woman more typical of an urban groove.

Either way, it slaps.