With more than 200 million records sold, Mariah Carey’s music has left too many lasting impacts to count.
So much to the point even brand new artists are finding new inspiration within their own music. Just ask Baltimore rapper YTK, who took Mariah Carey’s 2005 platinum smash “Shake It Off” to shape his own “Let It Off” single, which dropped on Friday (May 7).
Reworking Jermaine Dupri’s verbiage while still keeping the same melodic cadence, YTK lyrically details his ideal gunplay with bars like “I’m bout to let it off/Bitch, I’m posted with the gang/Then I hear you say my name/Before my niggas blow your brain.”
RNB Tommy, CEO of RnB Radar, slyly instigated the scenario on Twitter writing, “Mariah Carey has 24 hours to respond” with a lengthy clip of YTK’s “Let It Off” music video.
The challenge proved to be trivial for the music legend, who not only responded within the allotted time gap, she replied with vinegar and water.
“How about y’all have 24 hours to respond to my lawyers,” Mariah Carey tweeted while attaching her own “GTFO” GIF.
An unbothered YTK has spent most of his Saturday (May 8) basking in the sudden rise of notoriety, sharing multiple articles mentioning the GIF shade on social media and addressing his growing fanbase.
“The crazy thing is … I told y’all niggas,” YTK gloated on Instagram before admitting his sky no longer had any limits.
“Every goal that I had for this year got smashed — in a matter of 12 hours!” YTK continued.
“Every goal — out the fuckin’ way! Y’all haven’t heard SHIT! I made that song a year ago, bro! What?”
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For her part, Mariah Carey kept it playfully cryptic whether or not she was actually going to follow through with the lawsuit — or possibly wait and see what the royalty check politically correctness could be.
“I don’t know and neither do you!” she replied to a fan (with another self GIF) when asked about her tweet’s true intentions.
Check out the YTK “Let It Off” video before the lawyers potentially get ahold of it.
Let the man live. It’s better than her original haha
You must be under the age of 25…. This shit is wack as well as lame af ???
NO ONE is stopping him from making his OWN original song. My guess his original songs suck so he had to use a classic rnb song where he’s dancing around with gang. Weird vibes.
Bitch gave the prick exactly what he wanted. Mariah being a dumbass blond again.
she ain’t blonde
Came to check how stupid this shit was.
That’s the corniest, wackest video I’ve ever seen in my life. Little guys acting tough while trying to piggy back off a woman’s R&B song?!?! Mariah’s original was way harder. Mariah’s response is way more gangster than those little boys entire existance.
Now the kid talking like he’s a star cos an actual star replied to him lol
this is horrible all Mariah has to do is pull the plug and that whole dude career done before it even started
U guys are dweebs for the most part, I see this as kind of a joke song kind of like satire. Is it original is it great, no. It’s just catchy and I think kind of funny, an entertaining 2 minutes but dude is more of a singer it seems than a rapper.
“I didn’t know any of this,” Audrey Jackson said. “It’s all new. I just knew my boy was gone. Now it really feels like he’s not coming back. I don’t know what I thought being here would do. I thought something would happen that would help me feel differently. But to hear they kicked him when he was down. It’s so disrespectful and dishonorable.
There was no honor in this. And the irony in this is that those same kids are the kids he said he made music for. There need to be consequences, sufficient consequences. But as a people, we have work to do. Our children are killing each other. This just makes absolutely no sense to me.”
nothing says I’m a gangster like remaking a mariah carey song.
“I didn’t know any of this,” Audrey Jackson said. “It’s all new. I just knew my boy was gone. Now it really feels like he’s not coming back. I don’t know what I thought being here would do. I thought something would happen that would help me feel differently. But to hear they kicked him when he was down. It’s so disrespectful and dishonorable.
There was no honor in this. And the irony in this is that those same kids are the kids he said he made music for. There need to be consequences, sufficient consequences. But as a people, we have work to do. Our children are killing each other. This just makes absolutely no sense to me.”