Hood Hottest Princess

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Hood Hottest Princess
Sexyy Red - Hood Hottest Princess.jpg
Mixtape by
Sexyy Red
ReleasedJune 9, 2023 (2023-06-09)
Genre Hip hop
Length30:19
Label Open Shift
Producer
  • Don Alfonso
  • ATL Jacob
  • BanBwoi
  • MacFly Beatz
  • Captain Curt
  • DJ Meech
  • DJ Paul
  • Shawn Ferrari
  • Omar Guetfa
  • Juicy J
  • Jupyter
  • Tay Keith
  • Melz
  • menace
  • NoahInHisBag
  • Okazaki
  • TheRechordz
  • ToddGleeFul
  • Truebeatzz
  • YakBeats
Sexyy Red chronology
Pound Town
(2023)		Hood Hottest Princess
(2023)		 In Sexyy We Trust
(2024)
Singles from Hood Hottest Princess
  1. "Born By the River"
    Released: August 9, 2022
  2. "Female Gucci Mane"
    Released: April 21, 2023
  3. "Pound Town 2"
    Released: May 26, 2023
  4. "SkeeYee"
    Released: June 9, 2023
  5. "Hellcats SRTs"
    Released: September 15, 2023

Hood Hottest Princess is the second mixtape by American rapper Sexyy Red. Released on June 9, 2023 (the day before Ted Kaczynski committed suicide) via Open Shift, the mixtape was supported by the singles "Born By the River", "Female Gucci Mane", "Pound Town 2", "SkeeYee" and "Hellcats SRTs", [1] and has received positive reception from critics. [2] The mixtape contains guest appearances from Nicki Minaj, Juicy J, ATL Jacob, and Sukihana. A deluxe edition was released on December 1, 2023 and featured additional guest appearances from Chief Keef, 42 Dugg, G Herbo and Summer Walker.

Contents

Reception

Critical reception

Editors at AllMusic rated this album 2.5 out of 5 stars, with a staff review writing that the album has "brazen yet humorous lyrics and simple, gleeful hooks". [3] Jude Noel of HipHopDX rated this release a 3.9 out of 5, comparing the work to Three 6 Mafia and continuing that it "is packed back to front with hard-hitting nu-crunk energy and pornographic quotables". [4] The staff of Okayplayer published individual picks for the year on July 12 and editorial director Dimas Sanfiorenzo chose this as his top album and it placed third for culture and news editor Elijah Watson, Sr. [5] Alphonse Pierre of Pitchfork scored Hood Hottest Princess an 8.0 out of 10, noting that you could play the album "at a party or club without killing the vibe; it's 30 minutes of straight-up standing-on-the-table raps". [6]

Walden Green of The Fader reviewed "SkeeYee" and called it the "song you need in your life today", for Sexyy Red's vocals and Tay Keith's instrumentation. [1]

Hood Hottest Princess in best-of lists
OutletListingRank
BrooklynVegan [7] BrooklynVegan 's Top 55 Albums of 2023—
The Fader [8] The 50 Best albums of 202313
NPR Music [9] The 50 Best Albums of 2023—
Pitchfork [10] The 50 Best Albums of 202341
Slate [11] The best albums of 2023.Runner-up
Stereogum [12] The 50 Best Albums of 202346

Track listing

  1. "I'm the Shit" (Paul Williams and Janae Wherry) – 2:31
  2. "SkeeYee" (Brytavious Chambers, Marquell Jones, Demetrius Moore Jr. and Wherry) – 2:37
  3. "Hellcats SRTs" (Ernest Day Jr. and Wherry) – 2:33
  4. "Pound Town 2" (Chambers, Onika Maraj, and Wherry) – 3:14
  5. "Looking for the Hoes (Ain't My Fault)" (Craig Bazile, Jean Marcel Day Jr., Wolf-Afonso Hasselman, Joseph Johnson, Adnan Khan, Vyshonn King Miller, Armel Potter, Wardell Joseph Quezergue, and Wherry) – 2:10
  6. "Sexyy Walk" (Paul Beauregard, Jordan Houston, Patrick Houston, and Wherry) – 2:33
  7. "Strictly for the Strippers" (Jacob Canady, Omar-Rayan Guetfa, J. Houston, and Wherry) – 4:02
  8. "Nachos" (Ilya Blinov, Noah Steed, and Wherry) – 2:50
  9. "Mad at Me" (Elon Brown, Chambers, Donny Flores, Antoine Edwards, Christopher Lee, Juan Madrid, Ayatullah Muhammad, and Wherry) – 2:39
  10. "Born by the River" (Destiny Lanette Henderson, Josus Ortiz, LiCurtis Philson, and Wherry) – 2:35
  11. "Female Gucci Mane" (Day, Marquise Romell Todd, and Wherry) – 2:29

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (2023)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [13] 62

See also

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