Surprising new collaborations from some of hip hop’s favorite rappers may be on the way. Lil Yachty and Kid Cudi are putting out that work and Drake and Rick Ross announced they’ve got goodies in the pipeline. New Fire From Kid Cudi And Lil Yachty Lil Yachty recently tweeted asking Kid Cudi to work with him. […]
Among the hilarious bars dispensed on Remble’s new single “Rocc Climbing” with Lil Yachty, the two rappers issue side-splitting witticisms such as, “I’m a known home wrecker, like Jerry Springer” and “A lot these Instagram hoes look just like aunties.” Look, none of this stuff is very PC, but it is undoubtedly funny, if only for its audacity and not the eye-popping contrast between the two artists’ unusual deliveries.
On one side, Lil Yachty is in full Michigan Boy Boat mode, deploying the marble-mouthed, overstuffed rhyme schemes of his collaborators on that mixtape with his usual, un-enunciated, lethargically mellow flow. On the other, Remble pronounces every phoneme of every word in every bar, which sounds a little like if one of the guys from Big Bang Theory grew up in South Central gangbanging. Drakeo The Ruler‘s influence hovers over the whole thing — and if you’ve never noticed the affinity between the off-kilter cadences of both LA’s emerging underground and Michigan’s, you will never un-hear the similarities now.
“Rocc Climbing” is Remble’s first new single since releasing his debut mixtape It’s Remble this summer. The release considerably raised the San Pedro rapper’s profile, and his association with the never-not-working Drakeo’s Stinc Team more or less ensures that more music is on the way.
Watch Remble’s “Rocc Climbing” video featuring Lil Yachty above.
Earlier today, I wrote about how rappers in 2021 are breaking out of their comfort zones and trying new things, unconcerned with fitting archetypes or remaining stuck with one consistent sound like rappers of the past. Lil Yachty’s new song, “Love Music,” offers a perfect example. Rather than relying on the bass-heavy, bombastic trap that he’s been kicking around the last couple of years or even reverting to his early cartoon-trap styles, this song sees him going soft-rock like it’s 2005 all over again.
Naturally, the video is accompanied by a colorful video full of fluffy cotton candy clouds and six-foot sunflowers, which surround Yachty and his leading lady as they hold hands, have a picnic with Baskin Robbins, and Yachty turns into a real-life heart eyes emoji. The cutesy aesthetic is a sharp contrast to Yachty’s most recent work with the grimy grifters of the Detroit rap scene on Michigan Boy Boat, but right in line with the playful image he cultivated early in his career and still maintains with Reece’s Puffs raps and movies based on Uno.
“Love Music” is also part of a general shift in the landscape toward the sounds of the 2000s — namely pop-punk, which pervades new and upcoming releases from the likes of MGK, Willow Smith, and Young Thug. Once again, Yachty’s playing the part of trendsetter, providing the poppier counterpoint to the aggressive (but still fun) music being made by his contemporaries.
Watch Lil Yachty’s “Love Music” video above.
Lil Yachty and Bhad Bhabie have worked together on music in the past, but they’ve recently taken their working relationship one step by investing in an exclusive dating app for Jewish people called Lox Club. Though they may be business partners, the two rappers don’t always see eye to eye — especially when it comes to cultural appropriation. The two got in a heated discussion on the topic on Instagram Live, with Yachty trying to explain that Bhabie doesn’t quite have the correct definition.
Since appearing on The Dr. Phil Show and starting her career in rap music, Bhabie, born Danielle Bregoli, has been consistently called out for cultural appropriation. Though Bhabie is white, she has been accused of building her brand on emulating Black culture. She’s had her hair in box braids, used slang terms in her music, and simply refused when Black women have asked her to stop. Though the definition of cultural appropriation tends to be malleable, it’s generally understood as the act of a person adopting aspects of a minority culture they don’t belong to and profiting from it. However, Bhabie doesn’t agree with that definition.
Bhabie hopped on an Instagram Live session with Yachty where she went off on her critics. “The one thing I’m really, really sick of is the ‘Bhad Bhabie is a cultural appropriator,’” she said. “No. Y’all make these words have different terms to what they even mean. Cultural appropriation is if I was to sit up and say, ‘Oh. A certain race looks ugly with that.’ And then I go do that on myself. Take braids for example. If I say a Black girl look ugly with braids and then I go get them, that’s culturally appropriating. Or when girls put chopsticks in their hair, that’s cultural appropriation. That’s doing something negative with someone’s culture.”
Yachty cut in with, “Bro. What the f*ck is you talking about? That’s not the argument.” Bhabie then proceeded to yell about people criticizing her “hood accent” as Yachty sighs and groans in the background. “This ain’t got nothing to do with nothing,” Yachty said before Bhabie cuts him off again.
Before hanging up, Yacthy was able to get in a final word. “On the real, you understand right now that in the room it’s you yelling at a phone screen. For what though?” To which Bhabie replied: “It makes me feel better.”
lil yachty bhad bhabie fight lmao @BhadBhabie @lilyachty #bhadbhabie pic.twitter.com/XkfTVHLXFX
— gabrielle moniz (@moniz_gabrielle) July 21, 2021
Watch fan-recorded snippets of Yacthy and Bhabie’s conversation above.
Bhad Bhabie is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Fousheé’s new Time Machine video “Clap For Him” is a tongue-in-cheek humblebrag, as the “Deep End” singer commands listeners to count any man she deigns to share her time with blessed. “He looked up and stumbled on a bad b*tch,” she sings, half-facetiously. In the video, she and a pair of stripper pals command the attention of their male co-stars while dancing their way through elegant surroundings as Lil Yachty comes in with a verse co-signing Fousheé’s boasts.
After “Deep End” put her on many fans’ radars last year thanks to a viral trend and her willingness to delve into the attribution confusion it accidentally caused, the singer finally released her debut album after a half-decade spent behind the scenes of the LA music industry. While songwriting paid the bills, Fousheé stocked up experiences and oddball concepts for songs and videos like “Gold Fronts” with Lil Wayne and “My Slime,” preparing for the day she could slide to the forefront and take advantage of her quirky aesthetic. That’s exactly what she’s done since announcing and releasing her debut album Time Machine this spring, and with unexpected features like the one on Vince Staples’ new self-titled album, it’s clear she’s intent on keeping that momentum going.
Watch Fousheé’s “Clap For Him” video featuring Lil Yachty above.
