She Called Me Scum

Well, I had no idea what to expect from this track, but it definitely wasn’t this. This is an artist I first discovered yesterday, as he produced a track for FAWKEM, and now he’s showcasing his own stuff, and so let’s talk about it!

This is the brand-new single by rapper, producer .Tetsuo, and on the track, it’s 3 minutes and 41 seconds, and believe it or not, it actually samples a fucking Christmas song.

I didn’t even think this could be possible until today, but for real, this whole song (beat and all) is just a classical piece that sounds like a 1980s Christmas song with those luscious, dreamy horns and beautiful keys and all, but played on loop with the male vocal snippet on loop. There’s no actual hip-hop element to the instrumental; it’s literally just a sample on loop, which is fucking impressive.

This is some West Side Gunn-level engineering. But ironically, the one song this reminds me of is the Kanye and Kid Cudi track ‘4th Dimension,’ how that track begins with that old-school tune but then evolves into that experimental rap beat.

The difference there is that it actually does evolve into a hip-hop beat. This one just remains a loop, kind of like WSG’s song ‘RIP Bergdorf,’ how it’s nothing but a sample loop.

Regardless of that incredibly unique production, we have the man himself who raps his ass off over this beat. He has a very fast and chaotic style to his verses. It kind of reminds me of an early Tyler, the Creator in its messy yet unpredictable way of rapping (imagine Bastard/Goblin Era Tyler but sped up).

There’s no pause in his rhythm or wordplay across this song. It’s all just fast-paced, fluent, and lethal pen game.

I will say I wish there was some sort of structure between the words. Instead of being one big, long verse, I feel this cut up into one or two verses and slowed down so that the audience can hear his lyrics more clearly. Plus, I feel it would benefit that gorgeous production more to have a more methodical pacing. But that’s just me; maybe my brain is just too slow to catch the words, but besides that fact, it’s a dope track regardless!

Yeah, in conclusion. Although I would have preferred a bit more ‘slower’ rendering of the vocal performances, the actual rapping was dope and so was the production, so that shouldn’t detour anyone from checking this one out!