The 5 Types Of Rap Songs You'll Hear This Summer

Rap revolves around the summer. The genre was place on Earth 45 years back under the sweltering heat of a Bronx day, and since then, artists have used the season to launch claims to fans' auditory real estate. Each year, there really is a "Summertime" by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince or a "Bodak Yellow" by Cardi B that beats your loyalty into submission at cookouts, graduation parties, and beach retreats through sheer catchiness.


Summer 2018 looks no different. Kanye West released two wildly different albums — ye and Kids Visualize Ghosts — in June. Drake or might not directly be releasing Scorpion this month immediately after suffering some body shots from Pusha T. Nicki Minaj pushed her album back to August, however yet still has plenty of time to transform the charts into a Barbie dream home. Between those release dates, we're rumored to get collab assignments from Jeremih and Ty Dolla $ign, YG, and maybe Brockhampton.


While all the aforementioned rappers are vastly different, summer hits still tend to follow certain trends. Face it: Good artists borrow, and fantastic rappers type in "Lil Uzi-type beat" on YouTube — and then they flourish.


because the influence of streaming giants like Spotify and Apple increases, more artists are getting a platform throughout the busiest music time of the year. Below are the five types of rap songs you'll hear because the blazing months descend upon the country.

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   The Ol' "30 Is The New 20"
   
   
   
   
   
   The Culprits: Rap can feel like a young man's game up until the world begins burning. Summer 2018 already sounds like every rapper over 30 is soundtracking their pre-midlife crisis as Donald Trump's Twitter fingers ping in the distance.
   
   
   Childish Gambino's "This Is America" is a social commentary about the perils of black joy in 2018, wrapped in ad-libs from Quavo, Young Thug, and Blocboy JB. Drake is potentially a dad who is soundtracking trips to the supermarket and inventing feminism at a roller rink. It doesn't hurt that hip-hop's hottest hubbies hold three of the best 5 position on the Billboard Hot 100.
   
   
   The average age of the largest rappers releasing assignments in June — Kanye, Drake, Nicki, Nas, Kid Cudi — is 36.8. Even T.I. Couldn't argue with that.
   
   
   Where You'll Hear It: Your local parent-teacher conference.
   
   
   
   
   



2. 
   
   The "Southern Song You Kinda Already Heard"
   
   
   
   
   
   The Culprits: "Who Run It" fever might have died down since spring, although the spirit of remixing old Southern hits for new crowds is still in full effect.
   
   
   Rae Sremmurd's "Powerglide" samples Three 6 Mafia's 2006 single "Side to Side." Saweetie's "ICY Girl" is a update on Khia's "My Neck, My Back (Lick It)." And Travis Scott teased "Stargazing," which pays homage to Big Moe's "Barre Baby," throughout his efficiency at Rolling Loud. Basically, if a rap album without a repackaged early-2000s Southern hit falls in the streaming forest, will anybody hear it?
   
   
   Where You'll Hear It: On any playlist with the word "trap" in it.
   
   
   
   
   



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   The "Meme Dream"
   
   
   
   
   
   The Culprits: Bhad Bhabie is arguably the third biggest female rapper of 2018. In one year, the money Me Ousside" girl has gone from internet novelty to an artist who has made her first three singles hit the Hot 100. Relatedly, Big Shaq took his 15 minutes of fame from "Man's Not Hot" and potentially extended it to "Man Don't Dance." And 11-year-old Mason Ramsey yodeled his way from Walmart aisles to Coachella stages to record deals. The most infuriating part is that these songs bang.
   
   
   What does all this mean? Potentially that we're months away from a No. 1 struck by Lil Tay and Woah Vicky ushering in the true apocalypse.
   
   
   Where You'll Hear It: Blasting ironically from your little brother's room.
   
   
   
   
   



4. 
   
   The "Premo Emo"
   
   
   
   
   
   The Culprits: Juice WRLD is a Chicago rapper who sounds like Lil Uzi Vert's emo diary entries became sentient and got a record deal with Interscope. That's a compliment! Juice's "Lucid Dreams" debuted at No. 74, and he's got a rumored Uzi feature on the horizon. Playboi Carti's Die Lit also stormed up the chart with a similar aesthetic to that of his best friend, Uzi. Not to say that Kid Cudi — the original king of emo rap — is supposedly soon dropping an album with Kanye. The summer is all about getting in your feelings for the foreseeable future. Be prepared.
   
   
   Where You'll Hear It: Hot Topic.
   
   
   
   
   



5. 
   
   The each person Wants A 'Despacito'"
   
   
   
   
   
   The Culprits: "Despacito" is already per year old, and the pop world is still attempting to duplicate its success. How? Well, Drake will reportedly be singing in Spanish on a new group effort with Bad Bunny. Cardi B's "I Like It" samples Pete Rodriguez’s 1967 song "I Like It Like That" and features Bad Bunny and J Balvin. Pharrell's "Sangria Wine" finds Camila Cabello singing partly in Spanish, also. There will undoubtedly be more songs that attempt to recapture the magic and successfulness of "Despacito," yet for now, nothing is touching Louis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's massive hit.
   
   
   Where You'll Hear It: At the dancery.