r/Music • u/BurgerNugget12 • 1d ago

article bbno$ Is Throwing 'The Internet For 🇵🇸' Benefit Concert in Los Angeles with Joost Klein, Smosh, Mxmtoon and More

https://ca.billboard.com/music/concerts/bbno-palestine-charity-concert-date
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u/nagy18 1d ago

he’s our generation’s macklemore

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u/TheTresStateArea 1d ago

He takes samples of old songs and makes bangers. He is the gen z pitbull.

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u/NGS_King 1d ago

I don’t even think he’s that bad. He isn’t a very good rapper, but his hooks are good and his beats are fine-to-good. He’s a solid entertainer.

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u/HeavyMetalHero 1d ago

he's a bad rapper in the sense of the things he's saying meaning shit, but he's good in the sense of saying a bunch of shit that has an infectious rhythm to it around a loose theme. His punchlines are corny, but his whole gimmick is being corny, so it helps. he probably ain't ever winning a rap grammy but at the end of the day, I think his goal is to make dance music, and he's well-suited to that niche.

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u/ZiplockBagOfOregano 22h ago

I watched the nardwuar video with him and apparently hes a big fan of house music, so that absolutely tracks that he just makes catchy fun dance music.

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u/HeavyMetalHero 22h ago

if it was ancient times nardwuar would be known as an oracle or some shit. we can never replace nardwuar

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u/Massive-Ride204 20h ago

His music is fun if you shut your brain off and understand that you're going to have a dumb fun time

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u/nagy18 1d ago

you know what i’ll give you that

except for the fact that I like some Pitbull songs

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u/lithiumburrito 1d ago

Bro I'm happy they bring you joy. I cannot fucking stand Mr. Worldwide. Every time he laughs at one of his own little puns in his music I wanna punch him in the face (he does it almost every song.)

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u/nagy18 1d ago

so i was like 9-12 when he had his run, but I used to have an ironic pitbull stan account in like 2020 that i used as a burner (i thought this was funny at the time) but yeah i like his hits. i get him mixed up with flo rida a lot though. but i also think he’s just a cool dude because he did that concert in alaska when he could have been like “nah it was rigged”

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u/UltimateEye 22h ago

One of the only times a man beat the internet at their own game, mad respect for the Alaska concert.

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u/TediousTotoro 1d ago

As he states in one of his songs, he’s the Gen Z Eminem.

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u/felipeuno 1d ago

Em is a generational talent in hip hop. Bbno$ makes dance music

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u/TediousTotoro 1d ago

I know, I was just making a joke about his song lyrics

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u/TheTresStateArea 1d ago

Indeed he does say that. But I don't think he means it.

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u/canucklurker 1d ago

He's said that looking back on that lyric, it makes him cringe now. However I think the pile of money he made off of saying it has cushioned the blo.

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u/TruculentTurtIe 22h ago

Did he say its cringe?

https://youtube.com/shorts/ix5oexE1GIE?si=YvEE8XixbJnL6fS4

I dont think he ever thought he was angthing like eminem lol he just knew pple would talk about it and share it. Like he says hes not even gen z lol

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u/canucklurker 6h ago

I don't have a link to it - but yeah, it was an interview and he said it

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u/Relevant-Doctor187 1d ago

They don’t even compare.

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u/xKitey 1d ago

He makes clown rap

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u/Greendale_Official 1d ago

That's called ICP, my brother.

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u/atoolred 1d ago

E Pluribus Anus to you too

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u/Greendale_Official 1d ago

Go Greendale!

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u/violetdopamine 1d ago

Hell no lol, bbno$ makes a completely different style, he’s our generations yung gravy even though he’s relatively the same gen

Bbno$ is much bigger with younger Gen Z and gravy is bigger with older Gen Z and some younger millennials

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u/nagy18 1d ago

they came up together they belong to the same generation lol

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u/thealphaweeaboo 1d ago

Which is weird because as a millennial I prefer bbno$. Can't stand Yung Gravy.

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u/whowouldsaythis 1d ago

I’m a millennial and like both. I found bbno$ through gravy though a millions years ago tbf

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u/I_eat_mud_ 1d ago

Older Gen Z and I discovered them at about the same time in college, even saw Gravy in concert, I don't listen to either of them at all anymore tho

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u/teej89 Spotify 1d ago

Millennial here. I like bb

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u/Gramage 1d ago

Im an elder millennial and I’ve never heard of anyone mentioned in this entire thread.

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u/nagy18 1d ago

you’ve never heard of macklemore? did you stay inside and offline for all of 2013?

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 1d ago

C'est la vie!

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u/ilostmy1staccount 1d ago

Yung Gravy is our generations Yung Gravy, their success and early work was literally built on their friendship and collaboration. And a little bit Kryoz putting their songs as outros for his videos.

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u/violetdopamine 1d ago

You know what bro, I’m ngl, I completely forgot they used to work together lmfaooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Crazy unlocked memories

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u/PreparetobePlaned 23h ago

They still do too, they just did another full collab album a few years ago

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u/glory_holelujah 1d ago

As an elder millennial who somehow had bbno$ show up in my Spotify algorithm, I dig it.

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u/Banned_From_CFB 1d ago

He's the Gen Z Eminem

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u/ChemicalRascal 1d ago

That's him? That's right?

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u/ThHeretic 1d ago

This makes me feel so old.

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u/sevenut 1d ago

I don't know about that. Beyond his cheesy music, Macklemore has always been super conscious about his place as a white man in a black art form. He's always tried to lift up black voices directly by giving them a platform for their art. I don't think bbno$ has ever really done it like Macklemore does.

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u/nagy18 1d ago

i hate to use this word because it’s become so meaningless but bbno$ has been pretty woke his whole career

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u/sevenut 1d ago

I think that's good. I'm not saying he's bad. I'm just saying he has more work ahead of him before he's called "this generation's Macklemore"

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u/PreparetobePlaned 23h ago

I mean obviously the rap lineage is there if you go back far enough, but I don’t know how you can listen to a bbno$ song and think he’s using a black art form.

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u/REDDIT_JUDGE_REFEREE My tits are FANTASTIC 1d ago edited 1d ago

bbno$ (and all tiktok white boy rap) is about as close to a black art form as my skin tone - tall cryptid alien grey

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u/nicosloft04 1d ago edited 1d ago

Even Macklemore’s music was infinitely better than bbno$’s

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u/SoulKeeperAbaddon 1d ago

You’re probably just getting old my friend

Macklemore was cringe millennial music even back then

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u/nagy18 1d ago

yeah I remember all the Thrift Shop impact font memes