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And now like Garfield like before it, a song in which I talk about everything except the song itself.

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Song Name: GUMMY
Song Origin: Brockhampton
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWhPimx07H0" data-time="
Nominator: Bane_Of_Despair (13/15)


It probably won't surprise you to hear that rap is the genre of music that I have the absolute least experience with. I never heard a single song growing up and even when I got older, it wasn't really represented on the stations I ever listened to.

One 80s station I used to listen to did have three technical examples:

"Rapture" by Blondie, which is hilarious, but barely counts as it's a nonsensical "disco, funk, hip hop, rap" oddity (though it is a guilty pleasure of mine) ... also, forgive the ignorance, but I'm not really clear on the distinction between hip hop & rap.

"Parents Just Don't Understand" by Will Smith, which was amusing (I was too old for the song, but I do love I Dream of Jeannie references)... until I noticed the whole 'overly sexualizing a 12-year old' part of the song and got unbelievably squicked out.

"Funky Cold Medina", which is so terrible that I'd be tempted to avoid the entire genre just to make sure I never heard that song or anything like it ever again.



Skip forward several years to someone else's music ranking topic and I encountered the first rap song that I actually loved unironically: "R.I.P". by Childish Gambino. Like The Haunting below, it was truly mind blowing.

I loved the audio skipping effect and enjoyed it enough to seek out the original song it was sampling (Nightcall, which I also loved) and...some other rap song that also sampled it, that wasn't even half as good, but it was quite interesting to see how all three of them took the same base song and made something completely different.



Skip forward again to Se7en's ranking topic and I also got into MC Frontalot, slightly. Stoop Sale wasn't bad (the puppets helped), but "I'll Form The Head" was the real standout. I've never been a fan of Voltron (though I haven't seen the Netflix series), but that was brilliant.

So, there are a couple songs that I'm a big fan of and I do want to listen to more (I was honestly hoping for more rap to be nominated, but didn't want to skew the nominations by openly pushing for it), but... well, honestly, this song is a bit too hardcore for me at the moment?

I'll admit, I'm not really in the best position to judge the song presently. Perhaps in another year or two, when the number of songs of this genre I've heard has reached the double digits, I'll be able to better appreciate it.

...also bonus points for the video including a llama.

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