Doja Cat thinks that Phonte’s verse on Little Brother’s “Whatever You Say” is one of the best verses in the history of hip-hop.
During a recent Instagram Live session while doing makeup, Doja listened to the track while taking care of her eyelashes. She mouthed Phonte’s verse until the end and afterwards, paused to let the people watching her know what she thought of the track.
“Bruh, that’s one of my favorite verses in the entire fucking history of rap ever,” she said with a grin. “That shit was so smooth. He didn’t rhyme one fucking word. I don’t care what anybody says.”
Doja continued by admitting he rhymed one or two lines together, but doubled down on her point that it works so well because it’s not predominantly rhymed. “It works,” she admitted. “You don’t have to rhyme.”
Doja paying homage to Phonte comes just days after Little Brother’s final dates of their farewell tour happened. Earlier this year, Phonte and Big Pooh announced the Curtain Call tour as the group’s final trek together before retirement.
“I wanted to let people know, me and Phonte, we super good,” Pooh revealed to AllHipHop. “We had a chance to reconcile, come back and, I believe, put Little Brother to bed the proper way.”
“We was able to do it the right way and I believe that’s one of the things we both thought was important—not that when we knew when that day would be, but it was still important to have that moment and allow our fans to have that moment, too,” he added.
“Pooh said it beautifully,” added Phonte. “We came back after a decade and got our first No. 1 record, we did our own movie, we did our own block party and regained control of our catalog. Our work is complete. Our mission as Little Brother is complete.”
“Pooh and I were really able to not just rebuild but also cement our brotherhood. That was the most important,” Phonte concluded. “That was the God of it. Our work as Little Brother is done. Our lives as Phonte and Thomas will go on forever.”