How many guns does it take to make the club go up? In the new video for their happy-go-lucky collaboration, "I Like Tuh," Carnage and iLoveMakonnen re-imagine their world as one filled with ill-defined drugs, tattooed assassin twins, nemeses in stripper outfits, murderous Elvis impersonators and a hundred other things that only exist in the most bizarrely cartoonish minds in pop music to
iLoveMakonnen and Carnage team up for 'I Like Tuh,' an anthem about the duo's two favorite things: Getting money and turning up. Carnage's hectic trap-influenced beat and Makonnen's airy, melodic flow are a match made in club heaven. By the time the song hits its crescendo, the beat bottoms out and listeners are left with a stripped down, weirded out Makonnen who closes out the song with a vocal
When hip-hop talks of appropriation, it's not usually about semantics. It's about race and gender and big, macroscopic things that sociologists and politicians will try to scrutinize and, in turn, co-opt for themselves. But trap is different...