someone on the Internet said that "Black Beatles" is essentially an act of revenge for that "Let's Marvin Gaye and get it on" song which makes "Black Beatles" infinitely better in my book
Nicholas Lim ZJ The chorus to your reference is infectious as fuck. Not to mention "'Cause the same people that tried to black ball me forgot about two things: my black balls" is a fucking golden line. XD
That "Me and Paul McCartney related" line makes me think these guys believe charisma/pop star status is distributed via Star Wars Prequel midichlorians.
@@dontdiscriminatehateeveryo9263 Paul's no saint either. And John isn't as bad as people say. Both his wives have denied that he beat them. Cynthia said he only hit her once, when they were in college, which lead to them breaking up for 3 months before he begged for her back.
Alan Smithee in fact many actually loved it www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-songs-of-2016-w452313/beyonc-formation-w452794 time.com/4575319/top-10-best-songs-2016/ www.complex.com/music/2016/12/best-songs-of-2016 pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9981-the-100-best-songs-of-2016/?page=10
Oh yeah, this is what I'm predicting. Not because of "Black Beatles" but because of the Beatles songs. IFPI has been cracking down hardcore on videos with their songs.
Avocado Smash A clone of Prince is so brilliant I hate myself for not thinking about it. Michael Jackson? I am not sure. If I knew him to play an instrument or to be a great lyricist that would be something. He was always more a singer dancer sort. Either you work well with a team or you are exploding with creativity other people can harmonize with or be energized by. And if I talked out of my ass any more I would be Ace Ventura
Beatles formula in simple terms: 4 talented musicians who love each other like brothers enjoying and exploring thier skills together ......and driving every girl on earth insane in the process. Black or white, I have not seen a band like the that did not have 1) an ego or two breaking the group from the start, 2) a hard on HATRED for society (rapper, metal, punk, etc), 3) or were just the puppets of a label making them a boy band. It just seems flat impossible now to have talent meet a hand full of big hearted musicians and hearing them grow up into creative people
So, like, what happened to flow in rap? It's not just that today's pop rappers have bad flow, it's like they have anti-flow. They sound like they are intentionally doing the easiest/laziest verses that they possibly can on purpose. I don't like this trend.
It's turned into blank verse/free-form. Poetry can support blank verse, just like jazz can (usually) support modern free-form. Rap can not support neither variation. It's like expecting a fish to not only ride a bicycle, but win the Tour d'France.
No, just no. Outkast's Hey Ya is a gut wrenching tale of doubt about true love, infidelity, & how hard it is to find some one, that masquerades as a fun dance song because of the breakdown & chorus. This is standard level trash about haters, "we so great", bitches & hos & "partying too hard".
BlueRoseFaery The lyrics are not similar at all but the way the guy from Black Beatles sings the hook sounds suspiciously similar to the way Andre sings on Hey Ya. Andre 3000 is obviously 5 million times more talented and Hey Ya is a billion times a better song, if anything I think they're kind of stealing from an older song that they know is good to play it safe.
Eh, even as far as delivery goes I don't think they sound similar. Andre has real feeling in his voice, these guys sound like they've had too much lean. A few other people mention it sounding similar so I guess I'm just not hearing it, but I am an Outkast fan so I might be slightly biased.
Before I watch the rest of the video I just wanted to say it's a damn shame the song sucks so hard. Because the melody actually sounds quite good on Todd's keyboard.
So in 2015 we had 'Marvin Gaye", a terrible song performed by two of the industry's worst artists that was an insult to one of the 60's and 70's best and most influencial artist. And in 2016 we have "Black Beatles", a terrible song performed by two of the industry's worst artists that is an insult to one of the 60's and 70's best and most influencial artists. I really don't like this trend. If we get a bro-country "tribute" to Jimi Hendrix next year, there'll be no turning back.
@@s.g.7572 Yeah but Maroon 5 wasn't the *worst* at that point, and neither was the other artist (I forgot who) wasn't even bad, so it's not on the same level.
Does this song remind anybody else of Hey Ya by Outkast? The "That girl is a real crowd pleaser" line follows the same melody of "Thank God for Mom and Dad for sticking to together" etc etc etc. Every time I listen to Black Beatles, I end up singing that.
Yup. They were trying to sound like Little Richard and Marvin Gaye all along. There are so many examples of them saying this. It just came out 'wrong'. Luckily that wrong turned out to be...kinda popular!
Yes. There are many black musicians who influenced The Beatles and other acclaimed white artists. Many throughout the 19th, 20th and 21st century who are important to contemporary music. These two are not in that group.
Well I wouldn't call it "influenced" they just straight up stole from black artists. People don't think it's a big deal though because they had hits other than the songs that they stole.
I love this song honestly. It feels like a very well executed version of the rags to riches type of hip hop songs, and you could not possibly create a smoother beat. There’s also just something so funny and honestly admirable about taking the most admired and beloved music act of all time and pissing old white people off with it. Just feels very tongue and cheek with a very nice production job to top it all off.
Is pissing old people off with it honestly the intent, or is it just an ego trip from a couple of kids that have gotten too much attention for this early in their career?
I always thought Kanye was more like the Beatles. Started off ok, got really good, got really famous, got really experimental, and then went kinda crazy. Now people get irrationally annoyed at him for stupid stuff and only listen to his oldest music
I mean, to be fair, The Beatles *did* write songs about easy sex, wild parties, and being an asshole in public. Hell, "Norwegian Wood" is from the perspective of a sociopathic lech who burns a girl's house down because she won't boink him. Mind you, "Black Beatles" is nowhere near that calibre-the beat and style is dope but the lyrics are kind of stupid and obnoxious in a bad way and it's all been done better-but it's worth pointing out.
I think the thing is that the Beatles were aware of what they were talking about and whereas these guys are just saying this shit to be popular in today's society. I wasn't alive when the Beatles were even still together, was talking about that stuff was the norm during their time? If not then they were doing their own thing which kind of justifies it and if so, they obviously did it better than anyone else. I mean if your going to go after a trend, at least try to be better than everyone else at it, not the same as everyone else.
ConvincingPeople that's the difference between a lot of rock and a lot of bad rap, rock was often about sex and women, but it was at least creative and had real instruments playing to get you in to the feel of the song, too much mainstream rap these days, like these are just copy and paste boring unoriginal lyrics about doing drugs and sleeping with your girlfriend, with just relatively generic artificial beats built in. So of course songs talk about sex today and in the paste but in songs like this today it's just bland, boring, and it's been done countless times. Not ranting at you just giving my opinion, cheers.
ConvincingPeople That's true, even later on they still had some rather sexual songs (I Want You from Abbey Road is a good example). However I think they made up for occasionally shallow lyrics with good song construction, while this is just kinda eh. Not The Worst Thing Ever, just generic.
George Harrison's cover of "Got My Mind Set On You" is the best Beatles member music from the 80's. It was also a really great music video with disconcerting taxidermied animals, too.
@@williamz7011 Ah, but it was released as a single in January of 1981, so you can have it both ways. I'm partial to When We Was Fab. It sounds like his attempt to make up for All Those Years Ago, which was a very sweet trbute but a very bland song.
The song mostly refers to their success and growth and that they are making as much money as the Beatles did in their prime. I'm not defending the song, at most it is decent background music (makes sense why it was used in the Mannequin Challenge), but I just figured I'd clarify it a bit.
I was having a goof over how all games/ bands are comparing themselves to Dark Souls/ the Beatles in hope of gaining success despite of having nothing to do with the above. "[game] is the Dark Souls of [game genre]" is just as common as "[band] are the Beatles of [current decade]"
Ah, gotcha! That makes total sense. I've seen the trend recently in games writing of comparing things to Dark Souls and it can be really... weird, because standards for that comparison just don't seem to exist. As for the Beatles, while I can understand artists wanting to emulate their success or work, doing that takes more than just saying it. And sorry if my previous comment came off weird. I didn't want my question to seem antagonistic or something, because a lot of YT comments can be rather shitty.
Nah I think that title belongs to Radiohead. Every modern rock band is compared to them, and like how Dark Souls is a very hard game, Radiohead is a very hard band to cover.
the closest anyone came to reaching Beatlemania were the Jackson 5 and their popularity was even shorter than the Beatles' lifespan and they lasted 10 years but their reputation lasted forever
Yes, but it was also illegitimate and Danger Mouse didn't get permission from Jay-Z OR the Beatles for the project and was pulled from shelves after only one day because of it. That said, it's still amazing.
so in other words its really bad because of the title i don't really get the complaining, i mean i love the beatles but they really are using it more as a representation of amazingness seeing as the beatles are the band most think as the greatest of all time. so getting angered at them basically using a beloved band as a brag is like pretty pointless.
Perhaps it is like Maroon 5's Moves like Jagger. They are using a reference to better musicians instead of striving to be better musicians themselves. Unless in 50 years people will have Moves like Maroon 5 and be the Asian/Hispanic/Indian Srummed Rae. The future just became a scarier place of ticky-tackyness.
"Black The Cure" That actually hurt me a lil bit. This song irritated me enough being an insult to The Beatles, if it was The Cure in the title instead I would've punched a wall every second of the day for a whole month!
Some time has passed now and I've been remembering some things. Like how I used to watch all these old critic shows describing Beatles as "these annoying kids" that were "famous for no reason" and "brought no talent to the table". I think they have more in common with Rae Sremmurd than you may think. I don't think they'll blow up like Beatles did and be remembered through the ages as saints of music, but right now they are like Beatles were right then. Dropped one song that got really popular and a year later they are forgotten. 2018 will have to tell if they can pick up their careers after having lost their fame to all the Paloma Faiths, Rita Oras and the Lil Pumps out there.
***** Haven't listened to them. The closest ones I think of who do a "light on the brain" kind of lyrics are R&B artists like Craig David, Maxwell, Lewis Taylor, Chromeo... They sort of rap, but they have a slow cadence and they hit the proper notes. When I listen to something I can well define as Rap, I look for cats like Em, Jurassic 5, Ghostface, King Los, Elzhi, Black Thought... That's energy. It keeps you awake. These Rae something dudes is just too lazy, too basic.
Top 100 is just a popularity contest. Mentions a famous group? Check. Has a stupid challenge around it? Check. Stupid and nonsense lyrics that are the same as everything else? Check. Sounds like number one.
as a huge Beatles fan, I can definitely say we have the only black Beatles line we'll ever need "And what's a black Beatles anyway, a fuckin roach? I guess that's why they got me sitting here in fuckin coach" thank you for your service, Mr West
One Direction are closer to the Beatles than Rae Sremmurd will ever be. Those two are THAT bad that I can compare One Direction to the Beatles and be serious. Go home. I hear both yo mommas callin', and they sound angry that you're up past bedtime.
I'm surprised Todd didn't mention that Li'l Wayne "classic" Bitches Love Me, which was produced by Mike Will Made It. MWMI also worked on Beyoncé's Formation, while the guys from Rae Sremmurd provided the titular line and the Red Lobster bit. (Formation is awesome, BTW).
There's something that just really ticks me off about the title. Like, no one, regardless of race or genre, should be calling themselves the next Beatles. It's just really egotistical.
I like the mannequin challenge, its fun. I do agree that this is a bad song though. Its not as bad as some of their other songs though. Their obnoxious voices sound really grating in some of their other songs but its not too bad in this song. I'm so glad Juju on that Beat wasn't a hit here in the UK, that song is utter trash
Darius Watson juju on that beat was a hit here, and it's clean enough to play on major radio stations, and it's the most obnoxious thing. i'd pick black beatles over juju any day of the week.
Really? I haven't heard it that much and it only just got into the top 40 before leaving a week or two later. I guess its still popular enough to be played on a lot of radio stations. I agree with you, Black Beatles is bad but Juju on that Beat is so much worse, I'm glad I've managed to escape hearing it too much.
I think it's safe to say we're not going to get a review for it, but it'll probably wind up on one of the year-end lists for him... whether it's best or worst is still up in the air.
It's a solid enough song, sure... but it gets several points, in my opinion, docked for it being easily the WORST song Daft Punk's ever had a hand in. And Timothy, that was also in the past: The Weeknd has since put other songs out, so he may like them as well.
Lego Fan 74 Well, Walt Disney was an anti-semitist who made a terrible company. Kanye West is self-deprecating to compare himself to someone like Walt Disney. It’s nothing like comparing these guys to the Beatles, who actually meant and stood up for something.
I really love the Beatles. But you raise a good point about them not transcending race. They were pretty white. Hell: they were white British dudes! The whitest of all white people. Except for maybe white British girls...like me. Babbling aside: the Beatles were awesome. This song sucks. Peace.
Septicor Oasis didn't really sound like The Beatles that much either really, they just idolized John Lennon (Liam Gallagher's singing voice also sounded like him) and at some point they had mop tops.
I honestly can't stand the vocals for this song (my general opinion on modern rap as a whole), but I will say that I legitimately like the instrumentals. Something about that synth gets me.
The Beatles are called the greatest rock or pop act by Rock critics but it's usually a bunch of white men who put them on a pedestal. Not saying that the Beatles aren't amazing because you know they are The Beatles but that's just impossible to say who's the greatest because people come along throughout history that have an immense impact. on top of the fact that it's just impossible to compare people during different eras of time. And not to mention that the Beatles really took a lot of their inspiration from black music and even did a lot of covers that got big and people don't even realize that they're covers Perfect example Twist and Shout was a cover of the the Isley Brothers version after they re-arranged it from Bert Berns
"I'm the new Tupac"
- Shawn Mendes
Nimu Dash there is no 'way he said that and if he did I want a link
Nimu Dash this comment perfectly illustrates the oddity that is their claim of being the "black Beatles"
+Gansta Kut It's a joke. As in being just as absurd as Rae Sremmurd claiming to be like the Beatles.
Nimu Dash oh ok
"I'm the reincarnation of David Bowie"
-Daya
Everyone knows OutKast are the real Black Beatles.
blue cheese soup and the Jackson 5
@@RhythmGrizz when you think about it, that actually makes sense.
...actually I can't argue, that's a REALLY good comparison.
blue cheese soup
I would give Run D.M.C. that title.
I can dig that comparison
I want to see someone make a rap song that's actually full of references to Beatles songs. Basically a hip hop Glass Onion.
John Lennon by Dan Bull is a good one. It’s mostly about John, but there’s references galore!
@@darylesells19 my mind is tainted with creeper
Black Onion
Tick tick by MF DOOM (it samples the end of glass onion)
someone on the Internet said that "Black Beatles" is essentially an act of revenge for that "Let's Marvin Gaye and get it on" song
which makes "Black Beatles" infinitely better in my book
You know how when you remember something horrible incredibly sharply? I remember hearing that line the same way I remember 9/11.
@@NegaLomie thanks a lot. I snorted laughing, and got bong water all over the place😂😂😂
@@NegaLomie flashbulb memories at their finest?
That Marvin Gaye line would only be good if it was actually a gay song
Why the fuck are they holding guitars
Same reason douche bags on college campuses keep one on their back, pretending to have talent for the bitches.
And why the fuck are they holding them like THAT? I won't be surprised if thats the first time they've even seen guitars.
Because the Beatles used guitars.
***** that's pretty pathetic
Didn't expect anything more from Rae Sremmurd.
Rae Sremmurd backwards isn't Ear Drummers. It's Drummers Ear, which sounds like a horrible profession-related affliction like tennis elbow.
or athlete's foot
Would probably hearing loss beacuase of the loud music
Or Miner's Lung or Potter's Rot or Chimney Sweep's Cancer.
Fun fact: "Tennis elbow" is an anagram for "intense blow".
Keith Moon gave Pete Townshend Drummers Ear whether he liked it or not
Rae Sremmurd?
Wasn't he, like, the end boss in Undertale or something?
Robert Cornhole Rasriel sreemmurd
No, i'm pretty sure he was a minor character in one of the Star Wars films
Robert Cornhole best game
Undertales cancer like this song
Flame Shankx Dude its just a joke, how's that cancerous?
"What's a black beatle anyway? A fucking roach? I guess that's why they got me sitting in fucking coach"
Nicholas Lim ZJ The chorus to your reference is infectious as fuck.
Not to mention "'Cause the same people that tried to black ball me forgot about two things: my black balls" is a fucking golden line. XD
I generally don't like the crazy shit Kanye has been up to lately but sometimes, he's spot on. And no, his ass ain't sittin' in coach, no fuckin' way!
Y'all know this means we not getting the best and worst of 2016 lists until the middle of February, right?
Probably more like January. He never works on them until the year is done.
BIMMOM is that a reference to theneedledrop?
BIMMOM yup. Awesome album by the way.
:( ik.
He waits until the year is over. Worth the wait tho. Todds year end lists are really the best ones
There is a Black Beatles, They are called Earth Wind & Fire.
Zack F ✊
Zack F hell yeah. or the Jackson 5.
Fuck that's a really really good choice
Do you remember c: September!
OutKast
that girl is a real crowd pleaser
Yup. That's why people are throwing coins at her.
Trapezoid which one?
Well she can fuck off and get a job in stripping where she would be appreciated.
She could be a part-time model.
1101Archimedes but she'd have to keep her day job
So there's no guitars in the song at all, but they all have guitars and are miming that they're playing them... badly.
Still doesn't explain the guitars.
its just for visual purposes.
still doesn't explain the crowd pleasing woman.
It's a joke
Courtney Culver granted it's not a very funny one
But was that girl a crowd-pleaser? I need to know!
Sure
Cole Belinsky *Know me.
Caz I mean if she goes to these kind of shows, she bound to be a thottie
That "Me and Paul McCartney related" line makes me think these guys believe charisma/pop star status is distributed via Star Wars Prequel midichlorians.
Meh, this song is pretty boring. For me, the catchiness to this song starts and ends with the line "That girl is a real crowd pleaser..."
That's it.
I have a hard time finding a line about a stripper, for the millonth time, catchy.
MissNotSoCool 96 wait there were other lines than that??
This is LITERALLY an example of the beat carrying the song. That beat goes hard, but the lyrics are something I could do without.
I've always wanted a Beatles and gorillaz cross over. Then i learned most of the Beatles are dead
That would be amazing.
Well, Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr could still guest star on one of their songs.
@@dontdiscriminatehateeveryo9263 Paul's no saint either. And John isn't as bad as people say. Both his wives have denied that he beat them. Cynthia said he only hit her once, when they were in college, which lead to them breaking up for 3 months before he begged for her back.
@@caoisekamay1175 naaaah paul is still more sane then john srry 😐
@@caoisekamay1175 John did neglect his son though
Fun fact, Mike Will Made It is actually up for a Grammy.
(He provided the beat for "Formation" by Beyoncé)
A lot of critics hated that beat lol
Alan Smithee in fact many actually loved it
www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-songs-of-2016-w452313/beyonc-formation-w452794
time.com/4575319/top-10-best-songs-2016/
www.complex.com/music/2016/12/best-songs-of-2016
pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9981-the-100-best-songs-of-2016/?page=10
KDog1265 Did he put "Mike Will Made It" in it?
here before the copyright strike 😂
excited for the video.
BurnoutInc I know right! TH-cam is broken
Oh yeah, this is what I'm predicting. Not because of "Black Beatles" but because of the Beatles songs. IFPI has been cracking down hardcore on videos with their songs.
Yeah, Todd has terrible luck with videos being claimed. Once it was in less than 5 minutes of it being uploaded
Just go to covert2mp3.net to download the video for yourself or to re-upload it if this one gets deleted in case Todd can't put it back up
some one always does that no need to do it for them
theres atleast 3 other chanels basicly deticated to it (weather his are up or not)
Black Beatles? Unless it is 3 clones of Jimmi Hendrix and a clone of Elvin Jones, No one gets to use that phrase.
What about clones of members of 'Bad Brains', Micheal Jackson/any of the Jackson 5, and Prince
Avocado Smash A clone of Prince is so brilliant I hate myself for not thinking about it.
Michael Jackson? I am not sure. If I knew him to play an instrument or to be a great lyricist that would be something. He was always more a singer dancer sort.
Either you work well with a team or you are exploding with creativity other people can harmonize with or be energized by.
And if I talked out of my ass any more I would be Ace Ventura
Too bad young kids might only know a Beetle song cuz they heard it in Glee and assumed it was a Glee original song.
Beatles formula in simple terms: 4 talented musicians who love each other like brothers enjoying and exploring thier skills together ......and driving every girl on earth insane in the process. Black or white, I have not seen a band like the that did not have 1) an ego or two breaking the group from the start, 2) a hard on HATRED for society (rapper, metal, punk, etc), 3) or were just the puppets of a label making them a boy band. It just seems flat impossible now to have talent meet a hand full of big hearted musicians and hearing them grow up into creative people
butchdeadlift10
Ok sir I am just gonna steal that last sentence you wrote over there.....annnnd....thannnk yyyou...
I always considered Outkast to be hip hop's Beatles. Their music, style, personalities, influences. They are the best.
Wow. I'm not a big beatles fan, and I like Outkast, but there is no where near the impact, musicianship, or staying power of the beatles in outkast
@@plusmin09i mean people still loves them a good 20 years after their prime
@@duyanhng8430 People still love Limp Bizkit 20 years later as well. Are they also the equivalent to the Beatles?
So, like, what happened to flow in rap? It's not just that today's pop rappers have bad flow, it's like they have anti-flow. They sound like they are intentionally doing the easiest/laziest verses that they possibly can on purpose. I don't like this trend.
I kinda blame Wiz Khalifa for that one. He got popular despite having negative flow and now flow is just... not a thing anymore.
Juan Nunez
Thankfully, we still have the underground
It's turned into blank verse/free-form. Poetry can support blank verse, just like jazz can (usually) support modern free-form. Rap can not support neither variation. It's like expecting a fish to not only ride a bicycle, but win the Tour d'France.
+pbfloyd13 "just the really popular"
Coloring Book, The Life of Pablo, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, To Pimp a Butterfly, Untitled Unmastered...
Roundabout
I agree with most but Pablo is trash
This song sounds like a lazy unfinished version of Outkast's Hey Ya.
No, just no. Outkast's Hey Ya is a gut wrenching tale of doubt about true love, infidelity, & how hard it is to find some one, that masquerades as a fun dance song because of the breakdown & chorus. This is standard level trash about haters, "we so great", bitches & hos & "partying too hard".
BlueRoseFaery The lyrics are not similar at all but the way the guy from Black Beatles sings the hook sounds suspiciously similar to the way Andre sings on Hey Ya. Andre 3000 is obviously 5 million times more talented and Hey Ya is a billion times a better song, if anything I think they're kind of stealing from an older song that they know is good to play it safe.
*googles Hey Ya lyrics* Huh. Well, whaddaya know.
Spanishdog17 I always thought that too! I'm glad to see I'm not the only one
Eh, even as far as delivery goes I don't think they sound similar. Andre has real feeling in his voice, these guys sound like they've had too much lean. A few other people mention it sounding similar so I guess I'm just not hearing it, but I am an Outkast fan so I might be slightly biased.
This is like the time Pitbull made the MIB song. Being that it had nothing to do with MIB.
Having a song that calls yourself "Black Beatles" is about on par with saying you're bigger than Jesus.
And now to hope nobody else made that joke...
Kanye?
Some guy from Liverpool probably.
I think some guy made that joke a few decades back. What was his name again. John...something!
@@darylesells19 boy I bet they got into some real controversy there
This Song Is The Rap Version Of Moves Like Jagger.
The one guy sounds like that kid from that stupid Whip Nae Nae song
natsfan1137 ikr
natsfan1137 you mean...that isn't their song?
natsfan1137 Silento. I don't know why I know that.
i honestly had to go back to that song to see if that was them or not, i was surprised it wasnt.
+Brian MacLeod it's no surprise why you know it. Give yourself some credit for knowing things in modern pop culture (even if it is rather shit).
If they're the Black Beatles, then I'm Dave fucking Grohl.
Asian Dave Grohl
Nigga Nirvana
Mixed Michael Jackson...
Wait a minute.
I'm Johnny Cash.
I'm Stevie Ray Vaughan.
4:37 George Harrison to Paul McCartney in the "Revolution" music video: "John's mic is sh*t!"
Before I watch the rest of the video I just wanted to say it's a damn shame the song sucks so hard. Because the melody actually sounds quite good on Todd's keyboard.
Gingerbread Fetus It's good imo
The song is pretty good tbh
I think it's a banger
5 years later it's a classic lol
Isn't Rae Sremmurd one of the mascot legendaries of Pokémon Black & White?
xDD
that old guy mannequin is like a white rae sremmurd
Lol Paul McCartney has a good sense of humour
"They're the 2010s version of Kriss Kross"
Don't you EVER disrespect Kriss Kross like that again.
So in 2015 we had 'Marvin Gaye", a terrible song performed by two of the industry's worst artists that was an insult to one of the 60's and 70's best and most influencial artist.
And in 2016 we have "Black Beatles", a terrible song performed by two of the industry's worst artists that is an insult to one of the 60's and 70's best and most influencial artists.
I really don't like this trend. If we get a bro-country "tribute" to Jimi Hendrix next year, there'll be no turning back.
Devlin Burgess This song is great imo
Lmao
Don’t forget Moves Like Jagger
@@s.g.7572 Yeah but Maroon 5 wasn't the *worst* at that point, and neither was the other artist (I forgot who) wasn't even bad, so it's not on the same level.
Unorthodox Individual The other one was Christina Aguilera I think.
Does this song remind anybody else of Hey Ya by Outkast? The "That girl is a real crowd pleaser" line follows the same melody of "Thank God for Mom and Dad for sticking to together" etc etc etc. Every time I listen to Black Beatles, I end up singing that.
Brennan Sullivan Funnily enough, that song's music video was a deliberate homage to The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Brennan Sullivan honestly I knew it sounded familiar but no wonder it did... I love Hey Ya!
Harryhenry Ha! You're right!
It's just like a minor-key version with worse singing
I always sing hey ya to this song
Weren't the Beatles influenced by a lot of 50s/60s African American music?
President Kudsi a lot of people like to downplay that part. It’s a shame.
Yup. They were trying to sound like Little Richard and Marvin Gaye all along. There are so many examples of them saying this. It just came out 'wrong'. Luckily that wrong turned out to be...kinda popular!
@@pintpot And Chuck Berry!
Yes. There are many black musicians who influenced The Beatles and other acclaimed white artists. Many throughout the 19th, 20th and 21st century who are important to contemporary music. These two are not in that group.
Well I wouldn't call it "influenced" they just straight up stole from black artists. People don't think it's a big deal though because they had hits other than the songs that they stole.
Anybody else think black cure would have potential?
Well we can't use Black Cheap Trick. Or can we?
@Daniel33487 You mean something like "Trapday i`m in love"? (sorry. Couldn`t help it.).
@@nofreebeer I don't have a response but I just want to applaud you for throwing Cheap Trick's name in there.
I love this song honestly. It feels like a very well executed version of the rags to riches type of hip hop songs, and you could not possibly create a smoother beat. There’s also just something so funny and honestly admirable about taking the most admired and beloved music act of all time and pissing old white people off with it. Just feels very tongue and cheek with a very nice production job to top it all off.
i had the same exact thoughts
Plus I always took “Black Beetle” to mean their just rich as fuck
Is pissing old people off with it honestly the intent, or is it just an ego trip from a couple of kids that have gotten too much attention for this early in their career?
"ironic" nazism? oh, you wish...
Wow, you have more Beatles references than Rae Shremmerd
Not hard. It really shouldn't be hard to make Beatles references if you want to.
merchantfan I do it all the time
I always thought Kanye was more like the Beatles. Started off ok, got really good, got really famous, got really experimental, and then went kinda crazy. Now people get irrationally annoyed at him for stupid stuff and only listen to his oldest music
sigh824 Sounds like Linkin Park as well.
He even called himself a black beatle once
Memeboymatt He is more like black Bob Dylan. Migos are the black Beatles
Man this comment aged weirdly.
@@DKdrop yeah, oof
I mean, to be fair, The Beatles *did* write songs about easy sex, wild parties, and being an asshole in public. Hell, "Norwegian Wood" is from the perspective of a sociopathic lech who burns a girl's house down because she won't boink him.
Mind you, "Black Beatles" is nowhere near that calibre-the beat and style is dope but the lyrics are kind of stupid and obnoxious in a bad way and it's all been done better-but it's worth pointing out.
ConvincingPeople If anything these guys are like the Beatles before they got signed. Angry asshole teenagers trying to pick up chicks.
I think the thing is that the Beatles were aware of what they were talking about and whereas these guys are just saying this shit to be popular in today's society. I wasn't alive when the Beatles were even still together, was talking about that stuff was the norm during their time? If not then they were doing their own thing which kind of justifies it and if so, they obviously did it better than anyone else. I mean if your going to go after a trend, at least try to be better than everyone else at it, not the same as everyone else.
ConvincingPeople that's the difference between a lot of rock and a lot of bad rap, rock was often about sex and women, but it was at least creative and had real instruments playing to get you in to the feel of the song, too much mainstream rap these days, like these are just copy and paste boring unoriginal lyrics about doing drugs and sleeping with your girlfriend, with just relatively generic artificial beats built in. So of course songs talk about sex today and in the paste but in songs like this today it's just bland, boring, and it's been done countless times. Not ranting at you just giving my opinion, cheers.
ConvincingPeople That's true, even later on they still had some rather sexual songs (I Want You from Abbey Road is a good example). However I think they made up for occasionally shallow lyrics with good song construction, while this is just kinda eh. Not The Worst Thing Ever, just generic.
The beatles in 1964 were like one direction when they started out. Fight me
I don't even like the Beatles and I'm insulted by that comparison.
Why?
Because these people suck.
rae sremmurd are better than 2pac and most dad rock bands don't @ me
That doesn't mean they're good, ans they are nothing like the Beatles will ever be.
Dissenting opinions, pal. Get used to it.
George Harrison's cover of "Got My Mind Set On You" is the best Beatles member music from the 80's. It was also a really great music video with disconcerting taxidermied animals, too.
nomine *
Loved that video as a child!
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I'm going with John Lennon's "Woman". Although it could be argued that 1980 isn't the real 80's, which in that case I 100% agree with you
@@williamz7011 Ah, but it was released as a single in January of 1981, so you can have it both ways. I'm partial to When We Was Fab. It sounds like his attempt to make up for All Those Years Ago, which was a very sweet trbute but a very bland song.
Disagree. George's best 80s work is his song "when we was fab". it also has a really cool music video
The song mostly refers to their success and growth and that they are making as much money as the Beatles did in their prime. I'm not defending the song, at most it is decent background music (makes sense why it was used in the Mannequin Challenge), but I just figured I'd clarify it a bit.
Still a bad comparison. The Beatles sold over a billion records and are the most famous music act of all time. At best Criss Cross 2.0 is a fad.
Morton's Fork Yeah. I still figured I should clarify, even if it is still not the best comparison, seeing how big The Beatles were in comparison.
I was looking for a comment like this. I always find it sort of painful when people miss the point of even the worst rap songs
at this point it's safe to say that the Baetles are the Dark Souls of bands.
How so? I'm asking honestly, by the way. I'm curious whether you're referring to the fans engaging in gatekeeping nonsense or something else.
I was having a goof over how all games/ bands are comparing themselves to Dark Souls/ the Beatles in hope of gaining success despite of having nothing to do with the above. "[game] is the Dark Souls of [game genre]" is just as common as "[band] are the Beatles of [current decade]"
Ah, gotcha! That makes total sense. I've seen the trend recently in games writing of comparing things to Dark Souls and it can be really... weird, because standards for that comparison just don't seem to exist. As for the Beatles, while I can understand artists wanting to emulate their success or work, doing that takes more than just saying it.
And sorry if my previous comment came off weird. I didn't want my question to seem antagonistic or something, because a lot of YT comments can be rather shitty.
You are the Dark Souls of commenters
Nah I think that title belongs to Radiohead. Every modern rock band is compared to them, and like how Dark Souls is a very hard game, Radiohead is a very hard band to cover.
Wasn't Eddie Murphy the black beatle?
Tornusage Yeah Clarence lol.
Harryhenry the goat
She Got A Ticket To Ride And Da Bitch Don't Care.
I guess they just mean they've got the appeal of girls from all over the world like the Beatles did
He was supposed to be the black Ghostbuster, but his schedule didn't allow it.
Rewatching this review made me realize something. I really fucking need an album where Todd does piano covers.
the opening is really good. Then they start to sing
You gotta admit tho... That beat is sick.
No I'm good
the closest anyone came to reaching Beatlemania were the Jackson 5
and their popularity was even shorter than the Beatles' lifespan
and they lasted 10 years
but their reputation lasted forever
I heard them say "she's a good teaser" than the Beatles saying "she's a big teaser" tbh
They did-- it's the same amount of syllables so they can't even get a single reference right.
merchantfan To be fair, I don't think the reference was even intentional.
Calling a girl a tease isn't exactly unique to the Beatles.
Nyx same
Well yeah maybe the wanted to change it
Being compared to The Beatles is awesome. Comparing yourself to The Beatles though, that just reeks of MASSIVE hubris.
8 hours and it hasn't been taken down yet; new record!
The ends justify the memes!!! :D
XD good one!
the Grey album by dangermouse mixed Beatles with rap
I also recently heard an unofficial Wu-Tang/Beatles remix album on TH-cam, _Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers,_ that was pretty good too.
Fors Clavigera
okay I need to fucking hear this
mae Dangermouse! He's the greatest superhero in the world! Powerhouse...
Yes, but it was also illegitimate and Danger Mouse didn't get permission from Jay-Z OR the Beatles for the project and was pulled from shelves after only one day because of it. That said, it's still amazing.
I heard Jay-Z loved it, but there was no way the Beatles' rights-holders would ever sign off on it.
so in other words its really bad because of the title
i don't really get the complaining, i mean i love the beatles but they really are using it more as a representation of amazingness seeing as the beatles are the band most think as the greatest of all time. so getting angered at them basically using a beloved band as a brag is like pretty pointless.
duke86fan yeah i feel like his entire point in this review was a reach
duke86fan yer but everyone has been complaining about that
Perhaps it is like Maroon 5's Moves like Jagger. They are using a reference to better musicians instead of striving to be better musicians themselves.
Unless in 50 years people will have Moves like Maroon 5 and be the Asian/Hispanic/Indian Srummed Rae.
The future just became a scarier place of ticky-tackyness.
I thought the song was bad cause it sucked and confuses him on why this would ever be compared to the beatles.
The "song" is shit, the dumb title and lyrics are just an extra reason to make fun of it.
"Black The Cure"
That actually hurt me a lil bit. This song irritated me enough being an insult to The Beatles, if it was The Cure in the title instead I would've punched a wall every second of the day for a whole month!
“We’re the new Pink Floyd”
-Maroon 5
Some time has passed now and I've been remembering some things. Like how I used to watch all these old critic shows describing Beatles as "these annoying kids" that were "famous for no reason" and "brought no talent to the table".
I think they have more in common with Rae Sremmurd than you may think. I don't think they'll blow up like Beatles did and be remembered through the ages as saints of music, but right now they are like Beatles were right then. Dropped one song that got really popular and a year later they are forgotten.
2018 will have to tell if they can pick up their careers after having lost their fame to all the Paloma Faiths, Rita Oras and the Lil Pumps out there.
It's been half a decade. How are the black beatles doing these days?
@@plusmin09 2018 came and went and we didn't hear from them...
@@morphman86 Not quite the new Beatles then I guess. I'll wait for the documentary...
@@plusmin09That's not what I said though...
@@morphman86 ok... so what did you mean?
Was this what the bouncer in Wayne's World meant when he said "The Shitty Beatles"?
How dare you disrespect McCartney II like that
There's been some Beatles samples in hip hop. The Beastie Boys got away with a few Beatles samples on Paul's Boutique.
Didn't they get sued, though?
I'm gonna sound like a snob, but I just like lyrical rap. Young cats like dat ain't my style.
As seen by that Donald Glover profile picture
Ninwing That's from his TV show, nuttin' to do with his music.
***** Haven't listened to them. The closest ones I think of who do a "light on the brain" kind of lyrics are R&B artists like Craig David, Maxwell, Lewis Taylor, Chromeo... They sort of rap, but they have a slow cadence and they hit the proper notes. When I listen to something I can well define as Rap, I look for cats like Em, Jurassic 5, Ghostface, King Los, Elzhi, Black Thought... That's energy. It keeps you awake.
These Rae something dudes is just too lazy, too basic.
Billboard voted this the best song of 2016. I like this song but idk if it was the best song of the year.
Naja-Michelle Innis probably bc of the mannequin challenge. if it wasnt for that lord knows this song wouldnt have gotten so hyped
Top 100 is just a popularity contest. Mentions a famous group? Check. Has a stupid challenge around it? Check. Stupid and nonsense lyrics that are the same as everything else? Check. Sounds like number one.
as a huge Beatles fan, I can definitely say we have the only black Beatles line we'll ever need
"And what's a black Beatles anyway, a fuckin roach?
I guess that's why they got me sitting here in fuckin coach"
thank you for your service, Mr West
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A more fitting title for this song is Dung Beetles.
I hear "Blackbird" start and think "Yeah, as if this could've been anything else."
You made a cure reference good for you todd no seriously you need to talk about then sometime
Them
No hate but gucci mane is one of the most influencial hiphop acts of the last 15 years
One Direction are closer to the Beatles than Rae Sremmurd will ever be.
Those two are THAT bad that I can compare One Direction to the Beatles and be serious.
Go home. I hear both yo mommas callin', and they sound angry that you're up past bedtime.
You're just jealous that music was better then the Taylor Swift crap we have now. The Beatles are nothing like One Direction.
I'm surprised Todd didn't mention that Li'l Wayne "classic" Bitches Love Me, which was produced by Mike Will Made It.
MWMI also worked on Beyoncé's Formation, while the guys from Rae Sremmurd provided the titular line and the Red Lobster bit. (Formation is awesome, BTW).
40 minutes and no strike yet...it must be a Festivus Miracle!!
Deebo Molina when dose festuvuis start
6 hours!
2 years later still up :p
This song is actually pretty good. Easily the best song they’ve ever made.
No Flex Zone is some next level horrible
Mike Will Made It did Formation so he rules in my book
All hail the tsundere sighs...typical
Hes actually good most of the time. Hell the beat is hood but those kids suck dick so they ruined it
While I do agree he's actually relatively decent when he tries, considering he also did the beat for 23 with Miley Cyrus of all people... yeah.
There's something that just really ticks me off about the title. Like, no one, regardless of race or genre, should be calling themselves the next Beatles. It's just really egotistical.
I like the mannequin challenge, its fun. I do agree that this is a bad song though. Its not as bad as some of their other songs though. Their obnoxious voices sound really grating in some of their other songs but its not too bad in this song. I'm so glad Juju on that Beat wasn't a hit here in the UK, that song is utter trash
Darius Watson juju on that beat was a hit here, and it's clean enough to play on major radio stations, and it's the most obnoxious thing. i'd pick black beatles over juju any day of the week.
Really? I haven't heard it that much and it only just got into the top 40 before leaving a week or two later. I guess its still popular enough to be played on a lot of radio stations. I agree with you, Black Beatles is bad but Juju on that Beat is so much worse, I'm glad I've managed to escape hearing it too much.
Please review Starboy by Th' W''k'nd.
I think it's safe to say we're not going to get a review for it, but it'll probably wind up on one of the year-end lists for him... whether it's best or worst is still up in the air.
SeanStrife your kidding right it's probably destined to be on the best list
He's said in the past that he hates The Weeknd. The only song he's liked from him is Can't Feel My Face.
Grainne Mhaol fine, but there's no need to punch your keyboard
It's a solid enough song, sure... but it gets several points, in my opinion, docked for it being easily the WORST song Daft Punk's ever had a hand in.
And Timothy, that was also in the past: The Weeknd has since put other songs out, so he may like them as well.
They are not the new beatles, they are the new Milli Vanilli. You apologize Ear Drummers records.
Just to get this straight, the Mannequin challenge is not a meme, it is a fad.
The more appropriate term is "fad," and not "trend."
midgette True, it would be classified as a fad, and not a trend. I'll change that.
TheGrayGhost Aren't memes and fads similar in concept?
KDog1265 In concept, yes, but in principle, no. Memes are funny, the Mannequin challenge is not.
+TheGrayGhost Stuff like Dat Boi kind of throws a wrench into that definition.
Nothing like the Beatles like how Moves like Jagger sounds nothing like the Roling Stones
This song and everything it stands for is more disappointing than halo 4
It's a bigger dissapointment than me
James Risk Halo 4 wasn't bad. Now Halo 5 though...
Just Your Daddy Now me though...
The beat is fairly decent though.
Josh Spicer
Good sounding for those who eat shit😂
anyone who compares a Rap group to the Beatles are on one really mind-warping drug
These little toddlers comparing themselves to the Beatles is like Kanye West comparing himself to Walt Disney.
Yeah, I went there.
Lego Fan 74
Well, Walt Disney was an anti-semitist who made a terrible company. Kanye West is self-deprecating to compare himself to someone like Walt Disney. It’s nothing like comparing these guys to the Beatles, who actually meant and stood up for something.
@@sammanthaneys1444 disney isn't really a terrible company my guy that's kinda stretching it a bit
I really love the Beatles. But you raise a good point about them not transcending race. They were pretty white. Hell: they were white British dudes! The whitest of all white people. Except for maybe white British girls...like me.
Babbling aside: the Beatles were awesome. This song sucks. Peace.
"I support any attempt at resurrect the Beatles."
Didn't we try that in the 90's? Yeah, they were called Oasis and they sucked.
***** Oh, I dare.
Team Blur for life. :P
Septicor Oasis were great.
Blur for the win!
Septicor Oasis didn't really sound like The Beatles that much either really, they just idolized John Lennon (Liam Gallagher's singing voice also sounded like him) and at some point they had mop tops.
Septicor They were good until be here now, then thry fell off
To be honest, when I first saw the title, I had no idea what they were referring to.
I thought they were talking about ACTUAL beatles
You should check out the Grey album - Danger Mouse set lyrics from Jay Z's Black album to samples from the White album.
Luke Watson If he can get ahold of it... I remember Danger Mouse getting in a lotta trouble for that.
chdreturns While that's true, all of its here on TH-cam
The Beatles and Hip Hop have exactly two connections I can think of:
Danger Mouse's The Gray Album
The Beastie Boys' The Sounds Of Science
paul mccartney and kanye west have 3 songs together
It’s crazy to think that now this song is as old as Paul McCartney was when it dropped. How time flies
I was just listening to the Beatles. These guys got nothing on them. I know that goes without saying.
True. But I'd rather listen to this than Piggies.
I actually really like this song tbh
Am I the only one who finds it hilarious hearing Todd say 'wickety wickety wickety wack'?
Yo, man! I’m the Jewish Kurt Cobain!! New greatest rapper alive!!! Taking it back to the 2000s!! Uhhhh... Kurt Cobain was a rapper, right?
I like this song! The beat is nice, the melody is nice, and everything is just weird enough to be cool and different. Would recommend.
I honestly can't stand the vocals for this song (my general opinion on modern rap as a whole), but I will say that I legitimately like the instrumentals. Something about that synth gets me.
Maybe they meant the insects?
"The Beatles and hip-hop have never really mixed."
You ever listened to The Sounds of Science by the Beastie Boys???
Double doubt that he even cares at this point
The Beatles are called the greatest rock or pop act by Rock critics but it's usually a bunch of white men who put them on a pedestal. Not saying that the Beatles aren't amazing because you know they are The Beatles but that's just impossible to say who's the greatest because people come along throughout history that have an immense impact. on top of the fact that it's just impossible to compare people during different eras of time. And not to mention that the Beatles really took a lot of their inspiration from black music and even did a lot of covers that got big and people don't even realize that they're covers
Perfect example Twist and Shout was a cover of the the Isley Brothers version after they re-arranged it from Bert Berns
Who do you think could actually be called "the black Beatles?" A Tribe Called Quest? Early De La Soul? Any thoughts?
Run D.M.C.?
Outkast.