It is impossible to see the video clip of the song Rascal of the RMR group and have no questions. This is what has happened among the entire rap/hip hop community and urban music in general on Twitter shortly after the launch, a few days ago, of this unclassifiable rarity that Laugh at Bad Bunny's lyrics.
Rascal, from RMR, is the most interesting thing that has happened to trap so far in 2020.
Country/trap: has a new musical genre been born?
To this mix of visual impact and shocking lyrics Not even Resident René arrives. As sublime as ridiculous, Rascal RMR is unlike anything we've seen so far. For that reason alone, dedicating an article to it is justified. Did anyone really know that Saint Laurent designed bulletproof vests?
Rascal: country-rap-trap to the Backstreet Boys
Rascal is a very strange ballad that mixes country and rap along Old town road by Lil Nas X (but with piano instead of kick and snare). A must-listen piece that could well be the inauguration of a new genre of music. Many media, including the highly reputable and respected podcast of former rapper Joe Budden, say so.
The Fader He has already named it one of the best songs of 2020. The question (one of sooooo many) is: has RMR done this on purpose or has it come unintentionally? In an interview with the aforementioned medium, her vocalist declared herself a great fan of country music. Could we be facing a genius? Could we be dealing with a madman? Either way, it's new music.
And fresh.
Although RMR's song is a cover evident of Rascal Flatts and his song Bless The Broken Road, It has enough elements that make it unique. After all, this is one of the key features of hip hop. Can you name a good rap song that doesn't have another legendary tune sampled?
And every sleepless night
Led me to where I am
Bitches that broke my heart
They became hoes that scam
Show me a better way
Promise I'll quit this game
This much I know, it's true
I came up and so could you
And fuck the boys in blueAnd every sleepless night
It has brought me to where I am
whores that broke my heart
They became sluts who cheat
show me a better way
I promise you I'll leave this game
All I know is true
I arrived, and you can too
And fuck the boys in blue
RMR sound like backstreetboys, but his lyrics seem more like Migos, Young Thug o Kodak Black. A nostalgic piano surrounds everything, but the kalashnikovs make the most appropriate label trap country. OR fuck the cops R&B-country.
Rascal It is a product of our times. Postposmodernism in its purest form. The mix to infinity. A strangeness all of her. The first and only video of RMR (pronounced like rumor), a new group that nobody knew anything about until they went viral this week. A sextet that could well have come to stay in the industry.
It seems that they have pressed a winning button.
The ingredients of Rascal de CMA, dissected
RMR's vocalist is the boyfriend every father wishes for his daughter.
A couple of paragraphs ago we showed you a fragment of rascal. Let's go back to it because not everyone in the room may have been aware of everything that has happened in so few lines.
We insist: To understand the full impact of this atomic bomb you have to listen and watch the video.
We promise that we have no interests beyond the news. No one pays us to say this. (We would like to)
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- overcoming story: I made it this far, and so can you (“I came up and so could you”)
- Bleakness: Show me a better way/I promise I'll leave this game ("Show me a better way/Promise I'll quit this game”)
- bragging: I am now flexing in a Wraith (Rolls Royce model)/ They're hating me too (“Now I'm flexin' in a Wraith/They hatin' on me too”)
- quotes for instagram: Sluts who broke my heart/ Turned into sluts that I scammed. (“Bitches that broke my heart/They became holes I scam” ).
And all this, with a melodic and syrupy little piano in the background.
SHOCKED and hungry for more we are.
We will continue to inform.