Why It’s Time To Stop The Mumble Rap Hate

I hate mumble rap, I hate how repetitive it is, I hate how all mumble rappers look alike, from their hair, to their clothes. I hate how all Mumble rappers sound alike. I hate how catchy all the songs are, I hate that I dance to Gucci Gang. I fucking hate Gucci Gang. Casually sings Gucci Gang*. Over the past month I have dedicated myself to listen to only mumble rap, and though I hate it I have found that Mumble Rap has it’s place in Hip Hop as well as rap culture.

Mumble rap is repetitive. Super repetitive. But there is sort of a science to its repetitiveness. Take Desiigner’s Panda, that song has only one verse. He stretches the song out by adding a bridge and repeats the opening chorus twice. Most mumble rap songs have long eight bar choruses that can easily pass off as verses.

Dirty soda in a styro foam

Spend the day, and get my mind blown

Dress it up and go to NASA

Two hundred miles on the dash

Gotta roll a pound up and gas it

Switching lanes in a Grand Rapide

We the ones who kept it cool with niggas

Til these niggas start acting

Shoot a nigga like a film in a movie

Nigga gon let em have it

We ballin like it’s march madness

All these cops shootin niggas tragic

I’m the one that’s livin lavish

Like I’m playing for the Mavericks

I don’t want to fuck the bitch

The molly made me fuck her even tho she average

(Future, March Madness)

This extended chorus gives artist the space for shorter verses. Lessening the content that is given. In Future’s March Madness, his verse was also eight bars. Having longer choruses, and shorter verses gives room for more repetition, after all the chorus is repeated at least three times in any given

song.

Beside the repetitiveness nature the genre also relies heavily on melody. Artist like Young Thug, Future, Lil Uzi Vert rely on their melodic talents to carry a song more so than their lyrical ability. And this lack of lyrical talent is what sends criticizers of the genre in a frenzy. But having an empty verse frees the listener. It allows enjoyment without any conviction.

This freedom to enjoy the music, without dissecting it, and finding deeper meaning, let’s people like me and like you, and all of today's youth relax and have a good time. The reason I love Gucci Gang isn’t because he is dropping bars, or because he spits an ironic verse. But it is because I can turn my brain off and enjoy the moment.

Epilouge

“Mumble rap, mumble rap, old heads really want none of that.”

Rap is truly a forever changing genre. In the beginning it wasn’t complex, it was basic. That basic rap turned into Conscious rap, that turned into Gangster rap, which turned into Trap music, which is the genre that bred Mumble rap and as Wiz Khalifa predicted when he coined the term, it is growing into something else.

Future’s March Madness, is a very interesting song. It speak, very briefly on social injustices caused by Police Officers killing unarmed black men. The song is a mumble rap song. It showcases a great 808 Mafia produced beat, and a catchy melodic hook by Future. A few weeks ago 21 Savage released Nothing New a song that tackles the plight fought by African Americans and follows the story of an, what can only be perceived as a preteen/adolescent. He does this with a crazy trap beat and a monotone catchy hook. With these two songs, Mumble Rap is in for it’s own sub genre Conscious Mumble Rap.

Yes I can’t believe I just said that either. Conscious Mumble Rap might be a thing going into the future. So somewhere in What The Fuck, Wyoming or Who The Hell Cares, California there is a kid in a bedroom, listening to trap inspired beats, ready to take the mumble rap culture to the next level.

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