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| So today we're going to do something we haven't done in a while, and that's a rap review. | |
| To be honest, I just, I haven't been inspired by any new jams in quite a while. | |
| I haven't had a moment where I hear something and I think, well, geez, that s*** is fire. | |
| That is until I came across this song. | |
| It's listed on YouTube as YBN Namir Apa Stapa feat. | |
| 21 Savage. | |
| Now, as far as I can tell, there are two people and a song title. | |
| Here, but only one actual word, so I'm not sure what's happening exactly. | |
| I'm a little bit confused, but this is a popular song. | |
| I know that. | |
| The kids love it. | |
| My four-year-old was bumping to it earlier this morning, so it's a really popular song. | |
| We'll give it a shot. | |
| Here's Appa Stappa with the song YBN Namir. | |
| Either that or it's YBN Namir with the song Appa Stappa. | |
| In any case, let's check it out. | |
| Here we go. | |
| 21. | |
| [Bleep] | |
| [Bleep] | |
| Hey. | |
| Hey. | |
| Hey, how you doing? | |
| Hey, cake ass. | |
| [Bleep] | |
| Weird ass. | |
| [Bleep] | |
| He called them, if I heard correctly, he called them pancake ass n-words. | |
| Yep. | |
| I'm not sure what that means. | |
| I assume it isn't good. | |
| If somebody accuses you of being a pancake ass, it's probably safe to assume they're not trying to compliment you, I would think. | |
| I'm not sure, though. | |
| I don't know what the exact nature of the insult is. | |
| And even though I don't know what the insult means, it kind of makes sense in a way. | |
| And I've noticed that rappers are very good at doing this, where they say something that on one level you think, wait a second, that's completely incoherent. | |
| But on another level, you think, yeah, but I sort of understand what you mean. | |
| So I can kind of see why I might go up to a guy and say, say like, you pancake ass fool. | |
| Look a pancake over here with this pancake ass. | |
| I mean, I don't think I would ever say that to anybody, but at least YBN Namir can. | |
| ♪ I'm a rapper, hit you in your pocket ♪ ♪ I fell in love with all this (beep) money ♪ | |
| ♪ You in love with drama ♪ ♪ Say, say, baby, I'm not saucy, baby ♪ | |
| ♪ But I keep it long ♪ ♪ I'm a pull up in a new IH ♪ | |
| ♪ You riding in a Honda ♪ - There are so many elements of this scene | |
| that we have to sort through. | |
| Like there's a guy on a cell phone that was made in 1998. | |
| They've also got brand new iPhones and a TV that somebody watched "The Moon Landing" on in | |
| 1969. | |
| They got all this cash on the table. | |
| And YBN says that he fell in love with the money. | |
| It's a very financially confused scene is what I'm saying. | |
| You need to diversify your bonds. | |
| Plus, they've got a window AC unit in the house. | |
| With all that money, you could, you got, you got hundreds of just thousands of dollars sitting on the table. | |
| Take some of that. | |
| You could easily pay for central AC. | |
| Take a few wads of that cash, head down to Home Depot. | |
| Talk to somebody about getting you an HVAC unit for the house. | |
| Now, in this case, that's a house with it's not a lot of square footage there. | |
| So HVAC system is going to pay for itself and energy savings over the years. | |
| And these are all things that I could explain if YBN and 21 Savage were to invite me to their barbecue. | |
| And I frankly think that most rapper crews need a white dad and a flannel at the barbecue, just dropping a little bit of dad knowledge. | |
| That's that's my theory anyway Are these tattoos on my f*cking body? She say I'm a hottie. | |
| Why your girlfriend always wanna f*ck me, wanna touch my body? We got all type of f*cking guys might even have a | |
| time. I remember them days in the Jets to free my n*gga Ryan. Free Chris though. Remember we was bouncing out with | |
| Fofos. A n*gga keep it silent in LA I keep a clip though. | |
| Cause no I can't be lacking in these streets I keep a big pole. And I can't have no n*gga with me if they gon' snitch | |
| on us. That chopper, that's that oppa stopper, hit you where your pop. I fell in love with all this f*cking money. | |
| You in love with drama. Say say baby I'm not salsa baby. | |
| But I can't keep a lie. I'm gonna pull up in a new IHU ride today. | |
| When I listen to these lyrics, and I try to process the message, I can't help but pick up on very heavy Dr. Seuss influences in the rhyme scheme. | |
| Who's cancelled now, by the way, for being racist. | |
| But I think he should get credit for influencing much of modern rap. | |
| Like he says in the first verse, I keep a rocket in my pocket, socket called a pocket rocket. | |
| Which is very similar to Seuss when he wrote about the Wocket in the Pocket, one of my favorite Dr. Seuss books growing up. | |
| And really in both cases, you become a little uncomfortable because it sounds vaguely sexual. | |
| And then YBN says in the hook, he says, here's what he says. | |
| Know that choppa, that's the oppa stoppa, hit you and your partners. | |
| I fell in love with all this f***ing money. | |
| You in love with drama. | |
| Say say baby, I'm not Sosa baby, but I keep a llama. | |
| Gonna pull up in a new i8. | |
| You ridin' in a Honda. | |
| And I love that because of the way that he advocates for responsible farming practices. | |
| And he says he has a llama. | |
| I'm a little worried about there isn't enough room to house a llama on that postage stamp yard there, but I'll assume he's rented out a barn or something like that, some farmland somewhere. | |
| But basically, he has gotten into animal husbandry, and he's advocating for it in this song. | |
| That's what I'm picking up on. | |
| I could imagine him maybe going and performing this song about raising llamas, maybe to a 4-H club for kids, or something like that. | |
| So now I'm getting into the song Savage 21 Tasha baby mama in the LA she a salad | |
| Okay, ratchet suck me while I'm driving. She from dad straight up mama got some buns on her | |
| I call her Patty to my mother smoking out of wood She from Cali 21 in my Tesla Roaster when my pistol out the | |
| host double cup and serve I don't need no post effect | |
| I just want promotion put him on the poster gun them down in his own hood cuz he local I watched him breathe | |
| Roll in love Miami I put up with 10 stick smell my fragrance. You can't tell me I ain't rich | |
| Before l ain't shaking no hand with no sneeze. There's a few things that I | |
| I... | |
| Appreciate it here as we hear 21 Savage come and deliver his verse, spit his bars. | |
| First, I love that 21 Savage really gives the impression of somebody who doesn't want to be in the music video at all. | |
| He seems very put out, like he doesn't want to be at the party. | |
| Everybody else is throwing cash around, you know, really, really doing the oppa stoppa. | |
| 21 Savage is off in the corner, and when it's his turn to rap, He's kind of like rolling his eyes and saying, fine, okay, I'll split some bars if you want me to. | |
| And he comes with, let's be honest, some pretty lazy material. | |
| You could tell that he wasn't ready for this. | |
| Like he showed up to the house and they're getting ready for the music video. | |
| And he said, oh, is that today? | |
| Grabbed a napkin, ran to the kitchen, wrote his verse in about four minutes. | |
| And that's how we get lines like this. | |
| He says, little mama got some buns on her. | |
| I call her Patty. | |
| Do you really though? | |
| Do you really call her Patty because of her buns? | |
| I don't think you do. | |
| Maybe 21 Savage can get away with a line like that. | |
| I don't think I could. | |
| If I was single, no way I could walk up to a woman and say, hey, couldn't help but notice your buns. | |
| Say, do you mind if I call you Patty? | |
| No, that wouldn't work for me. | |
| I would get Cuomo'd on that. | |
| Sexual harassment claims, everything. | |
| But I'm not 21 Savage, so he can do that. | |
| Speaking of which, I also liked how 21 Savage said his name, 21, after every line. | |
| So it goes, he says, Lil mama got some buns on her, I call her Patty, 21. | |
| My model bitch be smokin' all the woods, she from Cali, 21. | |
| Rolling loud Miami, I pull up with 10 sticks, 21. | |
| Smell my fragrance, you can tell me I ain't rich. | |
| 21. | |
| Big 4L, I ain't shakin' no hand with no snitch. | |
| 21. | |
| So it's almost like, it's like Memento or something, where he has no short-term memory, and so he has to remind himself who he is every two seconds. | |
| And that's smart, because you don't want to have an existential crisis in the middle of the rap, where you forget who you are, where you are, why you are. | |
| Only thing I'll say is that, and look, I don't mean to harsh anyone's vibe, okay? | |
| I don't mean to harsh any buzzes here, but again, as the white dad in the flannel at the barbecue, marijuana does affect short-term memory. | |
| So if you're having trouble remembering things from one moment to the next, | |
| you have to remind yourself who you are in the middle of the song, | |
| then maybe I would think about not smoking that good (beep) quite so often. | |
| ♪ That's that oppa stopper ♪ ♪ Hit you in your pockets ♪ | |
| ♪ I fell in love with all this (beep) money ♪ ♪ You in love with drama ♪ | |
| ♪ Say, say, baby, I'm not so sub-baby ♪ ♪ But I keep a line ♪ | |
| ♪ I got no pull up in a new I-8 ♪ ♪ You riding in a Honda ♪ | |
| ♪ I like that chopper ♪ ♪ That's that oppa stopper ♪ | |
| ♪ Hit you in your pockets ♪ ♪ I fell in love with all this (beep) money ♪ | |
| ♪ You in love with drama ♪ ♪ Say, say, baby, I'm not so sub-baby ♪ | |
| ♪ But I keep a line ♪ ♪ I got no pull up in a new I-8 ♪ | |
| Well, look, at least they blur out the middle fingers in the end. | |
| That literally a whole song about drugs, guns, hoes, but the middle finger at the end is a bridge too far. | |
| And I appreciate that. | |
| I mean, in the last verse, the guy was talking about drinking and driving while holding a loaded pistol in his hand on his way to murder someone while wearing a watch that he bought with drug money. | |
| But you wouldn't want something really inappropriate like a crass hand gesture in your music video. | |
| We all have standards. | |
| Even YBN and 21 Savage do. |