The Woo
The song reached number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was certified a double-platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
It features old archival footage edited on vintage TV screens of Pop Smoke performing various tasks while showing 50 Cent and Roddy Ricch being surrounded by expensive cars and women wearing bikinis.
[1] 50 Cent took to Instagram, reaching out to Roddy Ricch to help with the song, captioning a post of his: "Tell @roddyricch i'm looking for him, i need him on Pop album".
1801 Records, Billy J, DJ Drewski, Jer-Z, Jess Jackson, K. Mack, and Ray Lennon were credited as additional producers.
[6][7] A.D. Amorosi of Variety said the track is "filled with flickers of Spanish acoustic guitar, and [Pop] Smoke making high and nice with his buds".
[9] Gary Suarez of Entertainment Weekly stated Pop Smoke "emulates the Queens rapper's cadence and tone".
[10] David Arron Blake of HipHopDX commented that Pop Smoke, 50 Cent, and Roddy Ricch "trade bars atop 808Melo's groovy production".
[11] Jade Gomez from Paste stated the song has "50 Cent's satisfying feature accented with Roddy Rich's vocals".
[19] David Crone of AllMusic stated Pop Smoke isn't "even given the dignity of a first verse, with featured artists muscling their way in ahead of the late rapper on tracks like 'The Woo' and 'Diana'".
Kristin Corry remarked that the song is "an alternate universe of what the Brooklyn rapper could have become—a bridge between the rap of yesterday and the sound of tomorrow".
[23][24] "The Woo" was released on Pop Smoke's posthumous debut studio album Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon, as the tenth track on July 3, 2020.
[27][28] The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the single a double platinum certification, which denotes two million units based on sales and track-equivalent on-demand streams.
[29] The song peaked at number 9 on the UK Singles Chart, giving Pop Smoke his first top-10 hit in the United Kingdom.
[30] The song was later certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), denoting track-equivalent sales and streams of 600,000 units in the UK.
"[39][40] The music video was later uploaded to Pop Smoke's YouTube channel on July 19, 2020, along with the release of the deluxe edition of Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon.
[40][43] Rivera took inspiration for creating the visual by the parking lot scene from the music video from Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Akon's hit single "Kush" (2010).
[44] The video features old archival footage edited on vintage TV screens of Pop Smoke inside of a tour bus, making music in a studio, performing on stage, and dancing on top of a car.
[40][43][45][46] The visuals also feature 50 Cent and Roddy Ricch singing the song while being surrounded by expensive cars and women wearing bikinis.
[47] Writing for HotNewHipHop, Alex Zidel commented it was "nice to see some throwback footage of Pop having fun in the studio added into the video," but opined that the "moment is certainly sentimental for fans of the late Brooklyn rapper".
