Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles” lands inside the coveted Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 this week, a landmark for both the Mississippi duo and the song’s featured artist, Gucci Mane.
The track, which jumps from #16 to #9 this week, serves as the highest-charting song that Gucci Mane has ever appeared on. Lil Wayne’s “Steady Mobbin,’” another of Gucci’s high-profile features, peaked at #48 following its release in 2009. Guwop’s own highest-charting single is “Wasted” featuring Plies, which reached the #36 position, also in 2009.
The recent rise of “Black Beates'” success is widely attributed to the #MannequinChallenge, the latest in viral videos that features people freeze-frame on film. The large majority of #MannequinChallenge videos that have gone viral feature “Black Beatles” playing in the background. Rae Sremmurd participated in their own #MannequinChallenge video at a show in Denver earlier this month. The background song? “Black Beatles.”
“Black Beatles” is the third single off Rae Sremmurd’s sophomore studio album, SremmLife 2. The project, which was released in August, received a 3.9 out of 5 rating by HipHopDX, with writer Narsimha Chintaluri calling the effort a “worthwhile (and much needed) bid for album of the summer.”
3.9 out of 5 rating? Are you seriously telling me HiphopDX believes that Rae Sremmurds was a little over a point away from crafting a perfect Hip-Hop album?? lmaooooo credibility lost
Narsimha always gives trap albums a high ass rating. Someone could burp over trap beats and he’ll still find a way to call it genius.
Seems like people seem to forget what the rating system represents. It grades how effective the album was at setting out what it intended to do. Rae sremmurd wanted to create a album that is fun to listen to and party too. And they were highly succesful with that which is why they got a 3.9
it seems like all these vines with a song in the background get popular…is that the only way singles become platinum now?
john lennon is spinning on his grave
Agreed to actualy even be in the beatles realm you probably need to actualy know how to play instruments and know more than just 1 scale or 1 lesson worth of shit…
Oh and not to mentiom actualy be capable of singing notes in harmony and on key not using auto tune and productiom equipment for vocal adjustments
Wow
OVERRATED! !
hmmmmm.
So are we going to act like this song isn’t awesome. I’m just mad it took so long for people to notice.
Who cares if they know notes or not. WHO GIVES A FLYING TRUMP!
3.9*2=7.8
78 is a C+. I think that is an adequate rating. TBH.
Just saying, I don’t come to HHDX to fight with them on there rating system. Who cares about their rating system. Seriously, theres only 5 comments here lol
Who gives a flying fuck if they can harmonize? Millions of people honestly…thats why there are these things called singing lessons to actualy learn theory and technique not just talk into a microphone with a rythem and edit it later in the music video when i see them jumping around like retards with guitars the next thing i wait for is someone to smash them over there faces for just posing with them.and being incapable of actualy playing it and i mean playing it correctly something ive known how to do since i was 12 and am now 28 not even a millionaire “musician” and i actualy know how to play 15+ different scales and god i couldnt even name the specialty techniques used to gain funky sounds just sad to see people call themselfs beatles when they know shit about music other than paying someone to make a beat to talk to and claik to be beatles…