Some songs drip with confidence. Others mask insecurity with flexes. But Penomeco ’s “My Chick” lives in that volatile space between love and war—where attraction, irritation, and desire all collapse into one restless beat.
The track, which features an unrelenting guest verse from Lil Cherry, doesn’t pretend to be about romance. It’s about tension. The kind that simmers under late-night phone calls, misread texts, and chaotic vibes. From the moment Penomeco opens with “Baby, you gotta be loyal,” he’s already on the defensive, already bracing for the emotional static that follows.
The beat is slick, spare, almost claustrophobic. There’s no warm hook to retreat into, just a tight loop that mirrors the circular arguments Penomeco seems to be having with someone—or maybe himself. “텍스트가 너무 더러워,” he mutters, half disgusted, half intrigued, and you get the sense this isn’t a clean breakup track or a celebration of love. It’s messier than that. And that’s exactly the point.
Lil Cherry enters like a controlled explosion. Her flow is erratic and addictive, jumping from English to Korean mid-thought, tearing apart any structure the song tried to settle into. She doesn’t sound like she’s interested in smoothing things over. She leans into the chaos, adding gasoline to the fire with lines like “Don’t be a liar, liar, lookin’ side to side.” The way she rides the beat—then ducks under it, then punches straight through it—makes her verse feel less like a feature and more like a takeover.
There’s a kind of genius in how “My Chick” refuses resolution. It doesn’t ask for sympathy, it doesn’t reach for catharsis. It sits in the middle of the storm, playing chicken with vulnerability and ego. You don’t walk away from it humming the chorus. You walk away unsettled, maybe even unsure what just hit you.
For Penomeco, that seems to be the goal. This is a song about power, and what happens when two people keep trying to snatch it from each other.
