"I Am My Own Mommy, The Fuck!" (Top Singles, One-Third Through 2018)
Closed my 2017 Top 100 on March 3, giving myself a sigh of relief that "Gummo" and "The Race" were near misses and I wouldn't have to write about them. But here those guys are anyway, 6ix9ine and Tay-K, sure things on this list for "Billy" and "After You." And I still haven't done my writeup for 2017. Probably don't have much more to say about
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6ix9ine is all over the place in quality: if you count high-profile mashups made by others (some going into millions of views) it seems as if something's coming out with his name on it every week.
As for FBG Duck, I've now added three versions of "Slide" to my singles list, Kidd Kenn's* in my top ten and Bangg 3's and FBG Duck's wherever I decide to put them. Maybe more to come.
I'm changing my mind about the "off" parts of the FBG Duck original. As I listen to the Kidd Kenn remix especially - but some of the others as well - I hear how FBG Duck's drawl is a template for their drawl. "I can't shake your hand, no I'm not your friend," the way Duck's voice stretches and falls on "hand" and "friend." His drawl is clumsier than Kenn's and doesn't create its own pulse as effectively. But I'd now upgrade it from "monotonous" to "adequate." It is part of the oppressive pull, and the oppression is part of the force. And it sets up the screaming. Of course, Kenn doesn't need any screaming: his drawl holds the stage from start to finish.
The basic track, I presume by LilRiicoBeatz (he's listed on the original's YouTube site), deserves credit too.
*Whether "trigger warnings" are a good idea or not, I'm skeptical of how people implement them (e.g., whether the warnings really help stop panic reactions or are of any use to people with PTSD); and I don't know what actually triggers epileptic fits. But the Kidd Kenn remix does have flashing optical stuff. (Trauma aside, it's interesting that several Slide remixes have flashing lights, fast cuts, deliberately unstable camera. For all I know that's a drill thing in general; I don't really watch a lot of the vids.)
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