Conservative Dad Reviews Rap From YBN Nahmir & 21 Savage
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Summary
A rap review of YBN Namir's "Pancake ass" and 21 Savage's "I fell in love with all this money" (feat. YBNNamir) by the rapper YBN and rapper 21 Savage.
Transcript
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So today we're going to do something we haven't done in a while, and that's a rap review.
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To be honest, I just, I haven't been inspired by any new jams in quite a while.
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I haven't had a moment where I hear something and I think, well, geez, that s*** is fire.
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It's listed on YouTube as YBN Namir, Appa Stapa, Feet 21 Savage.
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Now, as far as I can tell, there are two people and a song title here, but only one actual word.
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I'm a little bit confused, but this is a popular song.
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My four-year-old was bumping to it earlier this morning, so it's a really popular song.
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Either that or it's YBN Namir with the song Appa Stapa.
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He called them, if I heard correctly, he called them pancake ass N-words.
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If somebody accuses you of being a pancake ass, it's probably safe to assume that they're
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I don't know what the exact nature of the insult is.
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And even though I don't know what the insult means, it kind of makes sense in a way.
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And I've noticed that rappers are very good at doing this, where they say something that
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on one level, you think, wait a second, that's completely incoherent.
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But on another level, you think, yeah, but I sort of understand what you mean.
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So I can kind of see why I might go up to a guy and say, say like, you pancake ass fool.
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Look at pancake over here with this pancake ass.
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I mean, I don't think I would ever say that to anybody, but at least, at least YBN, Namir,
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I keep a rocket in my pocket, so I can call the pocket rocket, if it's war, we ain't playing
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I'm the man, clip it, keep a hundred, I'm a gunner.
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When it's beef, we ain't playing games, we hit you in your mama.
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You know that chopper, that's that oppa stopper, hit you in your pocket.
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I fell in love with all this money, you in love with drama.
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There are so many elements of this scene that we have to sort through.
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Like, there's a guy on a cell phone that was made in 1998.
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They've also got brand new iPhones and a TV that somebody watched the moon landing on in
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They got all this cash on the table, and YBN says that he fell in love with the money.
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It's a very financially confused scene, is what I'm saying.
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Plus, they've got a window AC unit in the house.
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With all that money, you could, you got hundreds of, just thousands of dollars sitting on the
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Take a few wads of that cash, head down to Home Depot, talk to somebody about getting
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Now, in this case, that's a house with, it's not a lot of square footage there.
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So, um, HVAC system is going to pay for itself in energy savings over the years.
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And these are all things that I could explain if YBN and 21 Savage were to invite me to their
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And I frankly think that most rapper crews need a white dad in a flannel at the barbecue,
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All these tattoos on my f***ing daddy, she say I'm a hottie.
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Why your girlfriend always wanna f*** me, wanna touch my body?
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We got all type of f***ing guys, might even have a time.
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I remember them days in the Jester Free, my f***ing ride.
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And the f***ing keep it solid in LA, I keep a clip, though.
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Cause no, I can't be lacking in these streets, I keep a big pole.
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And I can't have no n*** with me if they gon' snitch on.
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That chopper, that's that oppa stopper, hit you with your partner.
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I fell in love with all this f***ing money, you in love with drama.
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Say, say, baby, I'm not salsa baby, but I keep a line.
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I'm a pull-up, and I knew I ate you, I didn't hate you.
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When I listen to these lyrics, and I try to process the message,
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I can't help but pick up on very heavy Dr. Seuss influences in the rhyme scheme.
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Who's canceled now, by the way, for being racist.
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But I think you should get credit for influencing much of modern rap.
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Like he says in the first verse, I keep a rocket in my pocket, socket called a pocket rocket.
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Which is very similar to Seuss when he wrote about the walk-it in the pocket.
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And really in both cases, you become a little uncomfortable because it sounds vaguely sexual.
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And then YBN says in the hook, he says, here's what he says.
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Know that choppa, that's the appa stoppa, hit you and your partners.
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Say, say, baby, I'm not salsa baby, but I keep a llama.
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And I love that because of the way that he advocates for responsible farming practices.
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I'm a little worried about there isn't enough room to house a llama on that postage stamp yard there.
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But I'll assume he's rented out a barn or something like that.
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But basically, he has gotten into animal husbandry.
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I could imagine him maybe going and performing this song about raising llamas.
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Gunting him down in his own hood because he local.
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There's a few things that I appreciate here as we hear 21 Savage come and deliver his verse,
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First, I love that 21 Savage really gives the impression of somebody who doesn't want to
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Everybody else is throwing cash around, you know, really, really doing, doing the appa
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21 Savage is off in the corner and when it's his turn to rap, he's kind of like rolling
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his eyes and saying, fine, okay, I'll spit some bars if you want me to.
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And he comes with, let's be honest, some pretty lazy material.
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Like he showed up to the house and they're getting ready for the music video.
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Grabbed a napkin, ran to the kitchen, wrote his verse in about four minutes.
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Do you really call her Patty because of her buns?
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Maybe 21 Savage can get away with a line like that.
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If I was single, no way I could walk up to a woman and say, hey, couldn't help but notice
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Speaking of which, I also liked how 21 Savage said his name, 21, after every line.
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So it goes, he says, little mama got some buns on her.
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Big 4L, I ain't shaking no hand with no snitch, 21.
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So it's almost like, it's like memento or something where he has no short-term memory.
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And so he has to remind himself who he is every two seconds.
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And that's smart because you don't want to have an existential crisis in the middle of
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the rap where you forget who you are, where you are, why you are.
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Only thing I'll say is that, and look, I don't mean to harsh anyone's vibe, okay?
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But again, as the white dad in the flannel at the barbecue, marijuana does affect short-term
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So if you're having trouble remembering things from one moment to the next, you have to remind
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yourself who you are in the middle of the song, then maybe I would think about not smoking
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Well, look, at least they, at least they blur out the middle fingers in the end.
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That literally a whole song about drugs, guns, hoes, but the middle finger at the end is a
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I mean, in the last verse, the guy was talking about drinking and driving while holding a loaded
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pistol in his hand on his way to murder someone while wearing a watch that he bought with drug
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But you wouldn't want something really inappropriate like a crass hand gesture in your music video.