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RAE SREMMURD – BLACK BEATLES

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“Black Beatles” appears in Rae Sremmurd’s latest album ‘SremmLife 2’ released around 2 months back. Now, it currently stands at #01 spot on Billboard Hot 100 chart, dethroning “Closer” by the Chainsmokers who held the spot for months continuously. The sudden popularity of “Black Beatles” is accredited to it’s association with the internet sensation ‘Mannequin Challenge’ in which a group of people pose as mannequins and when the beat drops, begins to move crazily. This is the first #01 Billboard Hot 100 track for both Rae Sremmurd and Gucci Mane.

“Black Beatles” is a collaborative effort of Rae Sremmurd, Swae Lee, Slim Jxmmi, Gucci Mane and producer-Mike Will Made-It. The song is essentially comparing themselves to the late-great band ‘The Beatles’-mostly the comparison runs in the lines of the fame and fortune of climbing to the zenith of the music business.

From Wikipedia

Andrew Unterburger of Billboard stated "Black Beatles" "is also a vital, quintessentially youthful song, which is extremely welcome in this oncoming era of social conservatism. Though both brothers Khalif "Swae Lee" Brown and Aaquil "Slim Jxmmi" Brown are now of legal voting age, as an entity Rae Sremmurd remains decidedly new-wave, part of Atlanta's bumper crop of young MCs who are less concerned with paying fealty to hip-hop history than they are with blowing out the genre's formalistic constraints to their own thrilling, individualistic ends. Which isn't to say that the Chainsmokers and Halsey were stodgy and back-to-basics, either -- "Closer" was, in some ways, a blockbusting song in its own right—but after 12 weeks, any song becomes Establishment. Change was needed, and change was delivered." He also stated that while "'Black Beatles' is certainly not an explicitly political song, and the duo might understandably roll their eyes at any reading of their now-signature hit that suggests that it is," he praised the duo for the group's tribute to the Beatles and their ability to subvert expectations of the status quo.^[2]

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