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Migos' "Bad And Boujee" Hits #1 On Billboard Hot 100

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droggg

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Angelus Errare said:
Uzi was trash on this but he makes fun music.

"Fucked that bitch on Monday, fuck her sister Tuesday
You is not gon' do a thing, with my squad like Wu-TaAaang!
I'm gonna nuck if I buck
Let a lil nigga try us
Hit a nigga with a truck
Leave a lil nigga so stuck
Brittney turned me to a slut
Brittney turned me to a slut
Brittney turned me to a slut"
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Lol those lyrics....I do like some of Uzi's music but purely because of his energy and the production, as a lyricist he is laughably bad.
 
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Messofanego

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If I hadn't watched Atlanta, I wouldn't get why people would like this kind of song. But seeing the whole club culture, being so excited about creating a good hook, your name being memorable across the town, making it big on the radio from nothing, putting your region on the map, I can appreciate why people get hyped. Its poppy, and isn't going to bother socially conscious or lyrics-heavy hip hop, they serve different purposes and have their own time. No one is going to put this up against the classics, so just let people enjoy it for the time being.
 
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Angelus Errare

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droggg said:
Lol those lyrics....I do like some of Uzi's music but purely because of his energy and the production, as a lyricist he is laughably bad.
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Of course but if anyone is listening to Uzi for lyricism they took an L from the jump. I like Uzi because he's fun not because of his lyrics not to say any lyrically garbage artist can't say a line that you repeat or you like. I mean after all Drake is huge and lyrically he's trash but some of his most catchy bars are elementary.
 
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n00bsauce87

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hydruxo said:
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I salute you sir.
 
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lightskintwin

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Messofanego said:
If I hadn't watched Atlanta, I wouldn't get why people would like this kind of song. But seeing the whole club culture, being so excited about creating a good hook, your name being memorable across the town, making it big on the radio from nothing, putting your region on the map, I can appreciate why people get hyped. Its poppy, and isn't going to bother socially conscious or lyrics-heavy hip hop, they serve different purposes and have their own time. No one is going to put this up against the classics, so just let people enjoy it for the time being.
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Pretty much this, except the poppy part. I wouldn't consider Southern Black hood dudes creating southern hood club music for southern Black clubs and strip clubs poppy at all. It's kinda the opposite tbh.
 
smoothj

smoothj

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Can't hate on this song.

Definitely a banger in the whip. Fuck all the haters. I love hip hop but can't deny fire when I hear it.
 
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Nollemaster

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In my opinion, this trap/hip hop stuff is beginning to sound more and more like a parody of itself. It's just sounds... incredibly funny to me.
 
BiGBoSSMk23

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A company being excited for their new game is a huge slap in the face to all the fans that liked their old games.
This is the top "music" in the country and people wonder how Trump got elected... Lmao
 
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droggg

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Messofanego said:
If I hadn't watched Atlanta, I wouldn't get why people would like this kind of song. But seeing the whole club culture, being so excited about creating a good hook, your name being memorable across the town, making it big on the radio from nothing, putting your region on the map, I can appreciate why people get hyped. Its poppy, and isn't going to bother socially conscious or lyrics-heavy hip hop, they serve different purposes and have their own time. No one is going to put this up against the classics, so just let people enjoy it for the time being.
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You needed to watch Atlanta to understand why people like catchy, easily-digestible music that you can party/dance to? Not exactly a new concept.
 
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Brinbe

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lightskintwin said:
No doubt, I think the main thing is to look at these guys through the lens of doing a regional sound that has become mainstream. I think the only reason i can appreciate them is due to the cultural context of Atlanta's club/strip club and dance scene of the 90's, 00's, 10's. I thought Jeezy, and Gucci Mane was wack as fuck when they started buzzing in Atlanta, but you go out enough, drinking, getting lit, dancing with women to these songs; sooner or later they start becoming your jams. LOL

However if you're only engaging this music through your headsets, then you're definitely not going to get much out of it as you would from listening to a J.Cole, Kendrick, or Kanye.

To me these guys are the Miami Bass/Atlanta Booty Shake rappers of the late 80's/90's. Whereas Atlanta Booty Shake music was thought to have died, but didn't and got mixed with the themes of gangsta rap and east coast materialism and evolved to crunk, snap, and trap.



Nah, if you're White i can definitely understand if you never heard of Bougie. It is indeed a variation of the word Bourgeoisie just with the African American vernacular pronunciation of it, where it has become it's own term with unique meaning within African American culture.

It's kinda similar to Hoe which really isn't a variation of the term but a straight up African American vernacular pronunciation of the word Whore, which gained its frequency of use in Black communities through the 70's urban pimps and Blaxploitation movies, but look how popular the term Hoe has become and is used now in the Mainstream, instead of Whore.
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It's cultural. Regardless of race, if you live in a metropolitan city (at least in in the NE) and are the least bit connected to pop culture in the last two decades., you've heard the word. Hell, the urbandictonary entry is from 13 years ago.

But this is GAF and that disconnect is real for many people.
 
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Kaizer

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PassiveObserver said:
Beat slaps, hook's on point. Got no problems with this kind of rap.

Wonder how this board feels about 21 Savage.
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Really haven't listened to much 21 Savage, his voice doesn't do much for me. Loved his verse on Travis Scott's "Outside" though & his song No Heart has been growing on me:

Seventh grade I got caught with a pistol, sent me to Panthersville
Eighth grade started playin' football
Then I was like fuck the field
Ninth grade I was knocking niggas out
Nigga like Holyfield
Fast forward nigga, 2016
And I'm screaming fuck a deal
Bad bitch with me, she so thick
I don't even need a pill

WOO
 
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Pein

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21 savage has such a soft ass voice and dude always sounds dazed out his mind. That verse in no heart his good though. I don't like him though.
 
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Adam Sadler

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rambis said:
Danny definitely helped but this was well on the way even before. It was already projected to be number 1 before the GG.
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just an FYI for everyone when this song hit number 1 it was based on plays a week before Donald Glover gave it a shout out. There's a misconception that he helped it go number 1.

droggg said:
You needed to watch Atlanta to understand why people like catchy, easily-digestible music that you can party/dance to? Not exactly a new concept.
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LOL exactly what I was going to say. Like uhh where have you been the last 50 plus years
 
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lightskintwin

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Brinbe said:
It's cultural. Regardless of race, if you live in a metropolitan city (at least in in the NE) and are the least bit connected to pop culture in the last two decades., you've heard the word. Hell, the urbandictonary entry is from 13 years ago.
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LOL Of course it's cultural: African American culture. As with most African American culture it typically disseminates into Mainstream (White) American culture.

I have no idea how aware White people are of the term, however I have yet to see a White person refer to a stuck up, elitist White person as being bougie irl on in their media (Movies, TV, Music, Print) so I can understand why a White person has never heard of it, because it's not apart of their CULTURE. That doesn't mean it won't eventually become it though.

I'm sure it's happened, but nowhere near the frequency of other African American slang that have become apart of American English like the contemporary meanings of cool, chill, trippin, salty, bad (meaning good), to "getting your (noun) on" onto newer slang like on fleek, bae, ratchet, basic, thirsty, etc...
 
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MIMIC

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I love the song....and the video, lol. I first saw it maybe 2 months ago when it was trending on Youtube and I immediately downloaded it. I'm legitimately surprised that it's No. 1 though; didn't think it would have that broad of an appeal.

The spelling in the title cracks me up though.
 
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sqwarlock

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I'm not gonna say this music sucks—I 100% understand why it's popular—but it's not anything I would listen to on a regular basis. I'm 32, never been a club guy, and tend to prefer "conscious" rap over club anthems. Still, good for them for hitting #1.
 
Jaguar Victory

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FreshCakes said:
Was boujee an actual word before this song or are people just making up words these days?
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bour·geoi·sie

bo͝orZHwäzē

noun

the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
(in Marxist contexts) the capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production.

Edit: Looks like it's been covered to death. My bad.
 
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