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Playa Fly is a Memphis underground legend who emerged from the city's Three 6 Mafia-adjacent scene before going solo. 'Just Awaken Shaken' (1995) is a grim, organ-driven cut from his debut album Just Gettin' It On, riding the slow, syrupy tempos and triplet hi-hats that would later define modern trap. For 'Jimmy Cooks' (2022, the 21 Savage-featuring closer of Honestly, Nevermind), producers Tay Keith, Vinylz, Cubeatz, and Tizzle looped Playa Fly's vocal and organ from the opening of the original into a beat that snapped Honestly, Nevermind out of its house-music detour and back into rap with one decisive track. The full-circle Memphis lineage was the whole point. The song debuted at number one — Drake's eleventh Hot 100 chart-topper — and became his most rap-coded hit of the early 2020s.
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