LISTEN: Shaun Boothe feat. Kim Davis - Do It for You

Toronto-based artists Nineteen85 and Kim Davis deserve something for the beat alone. 
A bottle of beer on the patio at summertime maybe. Or possibly a good solid 3 minutes of your time to listen to one of the better examples of female singing with a hip-hop track. I gave 'em my ears, and it was while driving at night, listening to Flow 93.5 (our quote-unquote "urban" radio station in Toronto [it sucks]). I never listen to the radio, but, like, you know that feeling when a song comes on, and you simply have to find it?
Davis gets all 80's-diva (think-NY-jean-jacket-voice-type shit) with her voice, and I think is the real reason this song is tied together so finely. The flow of vocals between her and Toronto MC Shaun Boothe flipping about his ventures into a rap career; standard coming-of-age subject within raps outer edges, gets culled in a throwback beat boasting to hum-worthy melodies. The opening verse alone piques interest and is both a humbling self-reflexive and a playful poke at rap's rougher edges.
In short, this is one of those songs you come across, show to people, and is instantly recognized as the "other" side of hip-hop, where you forget all aspects of bullshit (or, even worse, auto-tune), in exchange for honesty of expression and stream-of-consciousness rapping. Boothe definitely deserves credit for that. The powerful vocals of Davis and the high-quality background of Ninteteen85, though, are reason enough for this one worth throwing on "shuffle", y'all. 
Listen.