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Durag activity verse change1/23/2024 ![]() ![]() With “16” following two hype workout tunes, the listener might expect the same kind of sound. Still, Keem picks back up with “issues,” which has the same soft Keem voice as “scapegoats.” Keem talks about the complicated relationship he has with his mother, saying, “how could I resent you.” This marks one of the first tracks in his career that he’s touched upon the closest relationships he has and how his career impacts them. He keeps that sound till the halfway point of the four-minute piece but then tries some questionable verses in the latter half when he repeats “I’m a hot girl” in an even more high-pitched voice. His flow is a little different - he uses a sort of iambic pentameter and stresses the last syllables of each line, a departure from his past work where he used trochaic pentameter and kept the last syllables unstressed. The first track on the album, “trademark usa,” starts with 30 seconds of Keem talking into the mic before a hard beat drop sparks his notorious baby voice. ![]() Unlike Scott, Lamar sounds like he’s previewing a new era of music, using an unusual variety of vocal inflections over the dark beat. In the complete opposite tone of “durag activity,” Keem flexes his celebrity status, hitting a Drake-inspired bar, saying “the girl of your dreams to me is a fan,” before switching up the beat for Lamar to go to work. He doesn’t disappoint on “family ties,” where he hops onto a hype beat similar to “Numb Numb Juice,” a ScHoolboy Q song he helped produce, and “MOSHPIT,” a track from Keem’s last EP. Keem follows Scott to end the song with some quick-hitting rhymes. On “durag activity,” he steadily rides a lo-fi trap beat before clearing the way for Scott to deliver a vintage verse filled with autotune and adlibs. What’s most compelling about these songs is that Keem is on par with his peers, and sometimes even better. The collaborations made these the most listened to songs on the album, with “durag activity” featuring Travis Scott at almost 46 million listens and “family ties” featuring Kendrick Lamar at more than 57 million. Who better than Travis Scott and Kendrick Lamar, two of today’s largest rap icons, to be the first features included on Keem’s songs. In the two other singles, Keem did something else he’d never done before: he brought someone else onto a track. The pair ended up at the end of the deluxe edition, which dropped on Sept. Two of the songs - “hooligan” and “no sense” - showed unseen sides of Keem in the base production and piano additions. Prior to the release of “The Melodic Blue,” Keem released four singles that would end up on the album. escapes that image in his latest project, adding an experimental mixtape in album form to his discography, released on Sept. In his debut studio album, Keem shows increased maturity with production and lyrics compared to his last project, “DIE FOR MY B*TCH”, which featured his breakout track “ORANGE SODA.” Though he was mainly known in the rap game just as Kendrick Lamar’s cousin, Keem - whose legal name is Hykeem Carter Jr. The project itself is homogenous to the cover: The water represents Keem’s normal rhythmic high-pitched sound, but the rainbow depicts a colorful change as he explores new melodies and themes. ![]()
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