Desus: Yo what up, it's your boy Desus Nice.
Mero: And I'm the Kid Mero, we here with some new
rap hits trying to see who gets our cosign.
Mero: If you hear it outside,
it's a hit. If people are driving by with the windows down blasting it, it's a hit. If it's
on the radio every two seconds, it's a hit. If it's in the strip club. It's a hit.
Desus: We're a little older so we've seen every rap video. We've seen every concept.
There's a 13 year old or a 18 year old right now like, "Yo, I'm about to blow their minds".
I'm like I've seen this 20 times. Here's what's boring. Driving through Times Square at night.
Done. Having pit bulls bark at the camera. Done. Going to the club and pouring up, putting
money to your ear like a phone. Done.
Mero: To me I want them to stop, or to bring back
the To be Continueds that used to dominate rap music videos in the 90s. Like yo, "To
be continued" to what? And it would never be continued. Yo continue that shit.
Desus: Yeah we miss the storylines.
Mero: Lil Mosey. Continue that shit bro.
Desus: There's an ambulance. I like that. It's about
health insurance. I like the dancing and because I’m from the Bronx I like the wearing all
red. Very simple fashion. You know how we do.
Mero: Just match, just match your hat to your sneakers
and you’re good.
Desus: He also looks a little bit, kind of like Rick Ross.
Mero: Yeah, he does look like Rick Ross on a keto diet.
Desus: That's what we need. We need dancing back.
Mero: Yeah bro. Y'all seen Diddy's 50th birthday party
where everybody was taping him dancing.
Desus: You know people are like
"Yo, I'm going to have all my homeboys in the back of the video." I don't know him.
He's not scary to me. That could be your cousin. You're just hanging out.
Mero: And if you look in the back of those videos,
there's always two or three guys that are active like yo I'm smoking the blunt guy.
Yo I'm drinking guy. Yo I'm holding the gun guy. But then there's just four dudes just
standing like, looking at their phones or like some random shit.
Desus: And after being on the actual video set, because
we make the TV show, you know those pick-ups. You're not shooting this for four minutes,
this is an all day shoot my friend. How many blunts did you bring? You were not drinking
that Patrón for five hours my guy, stop the lies.
Desus: This is definitely Bronx behavior right here.
Mero: Hell yeah. And he got, is that a, that's definitely
a Montclair, so he's definitely from the Bronx.
Mero: Shout out to up and coming rappers who just
get their homegirls that work startender jobs to come and be in a video. Talking about dancing
back in videos, a lot of choreography here.
Mero: I fuck with it.
Desus: I fuck with it. It's cool. You won't ever
see me attempting it. Not trying to tear a ACL, but you know I like it.
Mero: We're not about that toxic masculinity over
here. If you want to fucking get on the floor and bust a move, bust your mother fucking
move dog.
Desus: I like the... you know what? It's also terrifying
because they're doing all these slinky dances and you know one of them got a gun on them
so it's like wow. This kid is doing a little trot and he might shoot me.
Mero: You know what I'm saying.
Desus: I respect that. They're similar but you can
definitely tell Brooklyn drill versus the U.K. drill. Because, shout out to all my cousins
in the U.K., y'all know how y'all sound, you know how all us Americans think when we hear
you. We think you're all polite. We think you're all butlers. You know you're like "No.
No I'm not. I'm a scary goon.” And we're like, you have free healthcare. We're not
afraid of you.
Desus: Jack Harlow, “WHATS POPPIN”
Mero: This is going to be bad. I can already tell.
Okay, nope, I was right.
Desus: All right. I'm feeling conflicted because
the internal racism in me already turned me off this video, but it's kind of smacking
so it's called growth.
Desus: You can't automatically count off white rappers.
It's not 1993, you know these people grew up in this and they established. They know
the culture.
Mero: You know what if I'm going to pick a white
rapper, I'll take Yung Gravy over this dude. I don't know, just Yung Gravy has more swag to him.
Desus: There's never been a rapper from Kentucky.
That's a gimme right there. Kentucky fried...yo, get that Kentucky Fried Chicken. Call yourself
KFC.
Mero: Yo, I’m a wildcat.
Desus: Yo my flow is finger licking good.
Mero: Yo I'm balling and I'm a wild cat.
Desus: Yo have the colonel in the background like
“Yo, ah ah!” Maybe the general from the general's car insurance. A big chicken and
Timbs. Okay, I'm going too far.
Mero: I won't write him off just because he's white
but he's giving me kind of like semi-trap Lil Dicky vibes. And he's Zack Morris. He's
trap Morris. Watch him hear this shit now and that's going to be the name of the mixtape.
Trap Morris, you're welcome Harlow.
Desus: Shout out to my homegirl DreamDoll, Tabitha!
I see you Edenwald PJ stand up.
Desus: Shout out to her. She be driving through the
Bronx in the pink Jeep. I be seeing you on 233rd. You know the vibes. She can also do
cartwheels, ask her about that. G-Eazy. He looks like an Albanian from The Bronx. He
got the North Face... I wouldn't even think his name is G-Eazy. I think it'd be like Carlito
or something.
Mero: Aye it's not G-Eazy, it's Geazy. My name is
Geazy Francasi.
Desus: He's my Albanian homeboy who I let say the
n-word. I can't, I'm like “yo you went through ethnic cleansing I got to let you cook my guy.”
Mero: I gotta let you rock, B. If I was
LL Cool J I'd be super upset right now.
Desus: Yeah, this is when the old head in me is coming
out like “Ooh how dare they sample this! Sacrilege.”
Mero: Yo LL Cool J ripped his kangol off he's just
like squeezing it in his hand like how dare you.
Desus: I feel like an old person when you enter the
room and don't say hello. That's how outraged I am. I’m like, “Who taught you!”
Mero: But going back to the generational shit. My
kid has no idea that this is “Loungin.’” He might hear this shit and go "Yo, this shit
is fire". He's like "Yo, what is this dad?". I'm like, “Let me tell you something youngin.
This is by LL Cool J trying to smash somebody shawty.”
Mero: Being on TV, you know that situations like
this where they shoot videos in projects and dangerous areas. Bro, there's security everywhere.
Everywhere. You think G-Eazy came to Edenwald with no security? Come on, his label was like
"No. You're not.
Desus: Shout out to Dream Doll, that's my homegirl.
I'm not a big fan of the rap though. It's not for me. If I got some butt shots maybe.
Mero: I like the genre mashup right here. Trap not.
Desus: This sounds like acid reflux.
Let this come on at the club, forget it. I'm just like, throwing bottles, might elbow a stripper like-
Mero: That's what this is made for, this moshing
rap music.
Desus: You see music like this, I'm just always like,
are there kids that just come home from school and just listen to this in their room to relax?
Talking about Manson now. Korn. Korn with a K for you kids that don't know.
Mero: And a backwards R. This is kind of ill, because
now the kid that wants to be like "I don't know if I want to fuck with rock. I don't
know if I want to fuck with rap". Now there's this delicious rock-rap sandwich that I can
eat that's not Linkin Park. With the guy in the back like turntable-ing the fuck out of
that like...yeah!
Desus: To take it back, it's kind of like Cool Keith
and all that weird bizarre-o…
Mero: The Dr. Octagon shit, know what I’m saying.
Desus: The kind of hip-hop that your boy finds out
you're listening to and is like "Yo, you're a weirdo for real.” But then you've got
an air of superiority like “Yo, you can't handle this.”
Mero: You don't know about Del the Funky Homosapien, B.
Mero: Okay, we see a slave running from a slave
overseer I guess. Oh boy. Who took that role? Who saw that on Craigslist and was like Yeah,
I want to do that. I want my face associated with that.
Desus: This video is doing a lot already.
Desus: Damn if you made a video and it was
just you and your boy smoking weed in a hallway and then you see this, you like “Damn. Like sorry.”
Mero: What’d I do?
Desus: He tryna teach!
Mero: He sounds like, that’s what I was going
to say, he sounds like, he has like a Kendrick-y kind of like sound.
Desus: See if I was Kendrick. I would've just kept
him behind the scenes and be like "Yo I rap and I sing.” How you feel now?
Desus: I can see myself in like '94 with some orange
headphones on the train like "Yo, he spitting brother".
Mero: To me, I drive around a lot, so there's two
types of rap music to me. There's headphone rap and there's car rap. This is headphone
rap, this is like I'm zoned out. Cool out type of vibes. I'm not moshing to this.
Desus: You have people that are like I don't really
want to listen to that party music all the time. I don't want to listen to this kind
of like... it's not negative music but it's kind of empty. Like it doesn't really have
a progressive message, it's not really... Some people want hip-hop that teaches you
stuff. Not every rap song can be like "Yo, Imma shoot a bitch.” And artists like this
have very faithful core audiences, and then you'll go to a show and he'll have other people
and there's like a progression.
Mero: You see. That's why J Cole went platinum with
no features.
Desus: In the first video, I liked the
dancing around, the ambulance, the dreads, I liked the little Michael Jackson breakdown.
Mero: The genre mashup of my guy moshing with the
chain pants, I fuck with that. And then at the end its very cinematic, like you could
tell, there was a real-ass treatment for this video.
Desus: I liked the Dream Doll video because it was
very Bronx romantical, that's not a real word but I'm going to say it. You know what I'm
saying. North Face, chill in front of the PJs with your girl. Don't get better than
that you know, maybe y'all share a chopped cheese. You know what I mean, that's amore.
Desus: After watching all these rap videos. The video
that gets my cosign is Sada Baby because the video is fun to watch. The song is infectious.
You have fun watching him perform it and you might actually try to do some of the moves,
also I like the red outfit. That was kind of flames, my guy. And he got natural hair.
Mero: After carefully inspecting these visuals,
my cosign goes to my guy from the BX, Ron Suno featuring Fivio Foreign because this
looks like a party. This looks like a motherfucking block party that I want to be at with a nutcracker
and a half a blunt. You know what I'm saying. Keep doing your thing my G.
Mero: Yo listen man, make your videos B. Learn
how to use Final Cut, or whatever the fuck, you know what I mean, and do this shit yourself
bro. Don't depend on nobody else to do your shit. Don't listen to nobody. If somebody
like "Yo that shit is trash.” Fuck them. Do what you want to do.
Desus: Keep real hip-hop alive. That's what I'm talking
about, we need more lyrics. Nah, nah. You know, just follow your own vision and don't
necessarily feel you have to do something that someone else is doing. Don't be a follower,
be an originator. Because we don't remember any of the followers. You can see it in these
videos. You know, which videos were made by the artist, and which ones were made by a
marketing team. So, stay true to yourself and it'll pay off. That's what we did.
Mero: The big budget videos were dope, but they felt very cinematic and very like “yo,
I can't relate to this shit bro, like I'm not hopping out of a helicopter with Ja Rule.”
Desus: I mean, I miss when Jay-Z was pouring champagne
on hoes. So I'm going to disagree.
Desus: Was it Dame? Sorry. Jay’s like "Don't get
me in trouble with Beyoncé, please."
Mero: "Stop. Stop. Yo, you want ‘Lemonade’ part
II? Stupid! Stop playing.”
Desus: “I've changed. You heard ‘444.’ I made
amends.”
Mero: “Yo, come on you making me feel like a dumbo.”