Nick Mira: Hey guys, it’s Nick Mira
Taz Taylor: And Taz Taylor
Nick Mira: From Internet Money Records and today, we are going to be seeing which new
rap hits get our…
Taz Taylor: Cosign!
Taz Taylor: You kind of never really know when a song is going to be a hit.
I think we’re just too close to the situations when it happens.
Like when we make the songs, we’ll be in the studio…
We don’t look at things when we make them like, “Aw.
This is a hit.”
Nick Mira: When we did “Ransom,” it wasn’t everyone’s favorite song.
Taz Taylor: “Did It Again” and “Shots” were the ones that we were like, “It’s
a hit.”
And “Ransom” was just like, “Eh that’s cool.”
Whenever it started going up, we were like, “Really?
Ransom?”
The people just choose.
Nick Mira: I didn’t know he had a tattoo on the back of his head.
Taz Taylor: It’s not a tattoo.
It’s his hair.
Nick Mira: Is it? Oh wow.
I’m stupid.
Nick Mira: I haven’t heard this song but I like Choppa.
Taz Taylor: You don’t really hear him on much melodic shit.
Nick Mira: He does melodic stuff good though.
Taz Taylor: He’s more known for his like aggressively rapping shit.
This is more melodic for him so it’s different.
I fuck with the fact that this is his real life girlfriend.
She’s in the video and shit.
There ain’t no actresses or nothing like that.
No fake ass video models.
It’s real.
He’s obviously in the same lane as other rappers.
He’s like Youngboy and all that other shit, but I don’t know.
I feel like they’re just all different artists doing like their own unique little thing.
That’s what makes it him.
Nick Mira: Yeah he’s unique.
Taz Taylor: Yeah I fuck with NLE Choppa.
Taz Taylor: Oh I know this song!
Yeah. This chick’s fire.
She’s like poppin’ on TikTok right now.
Taz Taylor: You don’t like this?
I fuck with this shit.
This shit’s hard to me.
I was playing this the other day.
Y’all were laughing at me for playing this.
Nick Mira: This is what Taz listens to in his room.
Taz Taylor: This is what I listen to in my room when I put the hair up, you know, I’m
playing Call of Duty.
Sitting there crying man, this the shit I listen to.
Taz Taylor: How come I’m older than you and I know about TikTok?
I guess that’s just me being old and trying to connect with kids and you being a kid and
you’re like, “Aw that’s corny.”
Taz Taylor: You’re a hater bro.
That shit’s hard.
And I’m not saying that to say that.
I actually fuck with that song.
It gets stuck in your head.
It’s catchy.
Nick Mira: Maybe I’m not hip enough.
Taz Taylor: Ask your girl about it.
I bet you money she knows that song.
Taz Taylor: Big drip!
Nick Mira: Ok it looks like this was shot at 60 frames per second.
Taz Taylor: Yo it does though.
This looks like Birds’ fucking… 4th of July parties he be throwing in New York.
I don’t know about the bandana.
Bullet proof vest.
It feels like every year, there’s just one motherfucker comes out of New York randomly,
just pops out of nowhere.
I feel like this year it was Pop Smoke.
He ain’t got the voice though.
He ain’t got Pop Smoke’s voice.
Pop smoke sounds like he be putting cigarettes out on his tongue.
Nick Mira: I mean I like the beat and the song.
The music video is kind of umm…
Taz Taylor: It does sound like some UK shit though.
Nick Mira: Yeah.
Taz Taylor: I think you can just tell as soon as you play it, it’s just New York.
You get that whole feeling like if you been in New York.
It just feels like New York.
Taz Taylor: It reminds me of some Earl Sweatshirt shit.
Like some early Odd Future shit.
Nick Mira: When you listen to Earl Sweatshirt and Odd Future, you just listen like they’re
talking straight to you.
It’s not like they’re singing a song or anything.
It’s like right to you.
I hear the influence of Doom in there cause it’s just like gritty.
It’s just like dirty.
There’s no actual structure.
There’s nothing.
It’s just him rapping over a boom bap beat.
It’s just what it is.
Nick Mira; I think what he’s doing is different than what a lot of people do nowadays with
boom bap where they try to force it too hard and make it way too conscious, or try to put
on this voice that’s not really them and you can tell they’re trying too hard, but
he seems like he did it very naturally and it just flowed very easily so it comes off
as genuine.
It’s not corny at all.
Taz Taylor: Yeah. It comes off as he’s being himself.
Taz Taylor: BSlime!
Nick Mira: Shout out to BSlime.
BSlime’s fire.
Taz: Yeah I fuck with BSlime.
Nick Mira: He’s just a cool kid.
A lot of kid rappers and kid artists’ that come out, they’re just like, you don’t
want to listen to them ‘cause they’re like a little kid and they’re just rapping
about school and stuff.
But he’s saying anything else adults would say so it sounds fire.
And there’s rappers that have high pitched voices that sound like this so it’s like,
you don’t even pay attention that it’s a kid.
It just sounds cool.
Taz Taylor: Do you feel corny listening to a little kid rap?
Nick Mira: If it’s like some corny stuff…
I don’t think there’s any other kid rapper aside from him and Matt Ox that sound genuine.
Cause you can ride around listening to Matt Ox and it slaps.
Taz Taylor: The thing that’s interesting with him is…
You said he’s 12 right?
So I‘m interested to see if he’s actually going to do this or if he’s going to lose
interest by the time he’s 15, 16.
Some kids do that shit.
A lot of people will probably just give him shit and be like, “He only has the looks
he has or he only has this because he’s Melly’s brother.”
But then you listen to the music and you’re like, “Alright, there’s something there.”
Taz Taylor: Being on the label side of the artist shit, I know what every artist wants
to do with their music videos and kind of bring the watcher, the viewer, the listener,
into their own little world.
Nick Mira: The video for NLE Choppa’s “Forever” song was cool.
It was like shot at his own house.
There weren’t too many scenes.
They made a lot with what they had and I like the song.
Taz Taylor: Ashnikko!
And Yung Baby Tate.
Nick Mira: With that song, I guess I could see why people were hype about it on TikTok.
Taz Taylor: I thought it was fire.
I fuck with her heavy.
Nick Mira: With Fivio Foreign…
It sounds like Fabio kind of, I like it.
It sounded like a different take on the grime scene, but also mixed with drill in America.
So it was a good mix.
Nick Mira: The Mavi’s “Love, Of Money” was probably one of my favorites of the ones
we’ve reacted to.
Nick Mira: After watching all these new rap hits, the artist that gets my cosign is BSlime.
Taz Taylor: And the person that gets my cosign is Mavi because Internet Money fucks with
the boom bap low key.
With Urban music basically becoming the most popular genre out there, you really can’t
put it in a box anymore and say like, “This is that” or “This is this.”
It’s just what it is.
But it’s fire.
You can’t really box it in.
That really talks about how big the genre, and rap, and hip hop in itself is like gotten
in the past fifteen years.
Nick Mira: Nowadays, when people try to do boom bap, it’s like too forced on “Gotta
motivate and be on the street and get your head up…”
Taz Taylor: Penicillin!
Taz Taylor: You gotta do the Eminem impression.
Nick Mira: No, we good off that. Yeah.