OPINION: The trapery rhymes have the bounce, 808s and energy for you and the kids.
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The other day I was on the socials and came across a meme that said something to the effect of, “when your kid’s songs slap harder than yours.” I turned up the volume and heard a song that I would learn came from the creators of Gracie’s Corner, a Black-owned YouTube channel for kids. Each song is educational, but a bop as well. So of course I watched all of the videos with my kids who were both enjoying them but also jamming; it was a win all around.
I hopped in my car the next day and found the streaming music page and we continued our listening there. And then it happened. I guess we’d gotten to the end of the Gracie’s Corner jams because all of a sudden I hear a Vantablack, trap rendition of the “Three Little Pigs,” except in this version, titled “Big Bad Wolf,” the wolf has BARS. I looked in my rearview and my 7-year-old was looking the exact same way I did when I first heard “They Reminisce Over You (TROY)” by Pete Rock & CL Smooth. My son had found his music.
This song goes slam off. “What’s poppin’? What’s shakin’? Man, I’m in the mood for bacon.” I knew I was in for an entertaining ride from jump. So of course, I had to check out everything this channel, JoolsTV, had to offer. And there is literally something for everybody AND it’s quite easy to discern the influences. I heard Kevin Gates, Migos, Boosie, etc. It’s almost as if whoever put these joints together was an aspiring rapper but realized it wasn’t going to happen but needed to do SOMETHING with the beats he had laying around, looked at his kids and was like, “I GOT IT!”
The Trap Nursery Rhymes, Vols. 1 and 2, include trapped-out versions of songs like, .
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