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Riff: Yung Lean – “Hoover”

Nov 27, 2015

Two dead rats and I see a gallon/Got alotta shit in my bag like Santa/Bitches see me, hoes gettin’ tantrum/Rockstar person, I’m like Marilyn Manson

from Hoover lyrics by Yung Lean

Commonplace rap for commonplace folks, a style-less amalgam of all things boring. The skittish beat is trying desperately to be edgy, but is only a shameless copy of what his contemporaries are doing. It doesn’t take long for a meatball like Lean to be exposed, especially when his lyrics meander around like some vagrant. It’s a sad-sack of a song that will hopefully expedite his way out of rap.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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