1 on Billboard‘s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, 2018-20 marks the first three-year streak of season-ending Songs of the Summer No. With “Rockstar,” “Old Town Road” and “In My Feelings” all having hit No. In 2018, Drake’s “In My Feelings” took top honors. In 2019, Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, won the Songs of the Summer title. 12) “Blinding Lights” was the most-heard on radio (1.2 billion audience impressions) and BTS‘ “Dynamite” was the most-sold, claiming first place thanks to just its first two sales frames in the last two weeks of the season’s tracking period (486,000 combined digital and physical sales).

2 and 3, respectively, with her own “I Like It,” with Bad Bunny and J Balvin, and as featured on Maroon 5’s “Girls Like You.”Īs for the top titles this summer in each of the Hot 100’s three metrics, “Rockstar” was the most streamed (514.6 million, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data, as reflected on charts dated June 6 through Sept. 3 with “Whats Poppin,” he’s the first artist to boast two titles in the top three on a season-ending Songs of the Summer chart since Cardi B just two years ago. 2) Jack Harlow’s “Whats Poppin,” featuring DaBaby, Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne (No. Rounding out the 2020 Songs of the Summer top five: The Weeknd‘s “Blinding Lights” (No. Roddy Ricch) BLM REMIX 3:24 J1 Song, 3 minutes South Coast Music Group/Interscope Records 2020 Interscope Records Also available in the iTunes Store Other Versions ROCKSTAR (feat. With this new framework, the hook ('with the pistol on my hip like I'm a cop') becomes increasingly discomfiting the more you listen.Lil Durk Launches the Durk Banks Scholarship Fund at Howard University With Amazon Music: Exclusive DaBaby HIP-HOP/RAP 2020 Preview 1 ROCKSTAR (feat. Ultimately, this is why fastening 'BLM Remix' to the track flies in the face of the song's greater temperament.

But the concept of rockstardom, as nebulous as that may be, is not affixed to the average Black person in America nor is that dynamic present in average interactions with law enforcement. He raps about his vilification by hometown authorities and challenging their right to seizure of his property he boasts about buying a Lamborghini as an action of resistance as opposed to a transparent display of grandeur. It's a startling image that strikes a dissonant tone: DaBaby invokes Floyd, a man unable to breathe during the last moments of life, as the rapper's own words escalate in volume. Nothing is more emblematic of this delicate dance than the rollout of the song 'Rockstar,' originally a collaboration with Roddy Rich centered around largesse and extravagance.ĭuring June's BET Awards, however, he premiered a new version of the song, titled the 'BLM Remix.' DaBaby performs the opening verse lying on the ground, under the knee of a faceless white body, tying his own life's trials and tribulations with those of George Floyd. DaBaby's omnipresence over the last year threads a thin line between overnight celebrity and over saturation he drops new musical content almost as often as his altercations and antics make their way into the headlines.

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