The last song I’ll feature as part of this year-end ‘What the Kids are Listening To’ installment is the 28th most popular song of last year, ‘Just Wanna Rock’ by Lil Uzi Vert.
Before I get to the song, I have to marvel at the fact that I somehow didn’t blog about 13 of the top 28 songs on the year-end Hot 100. When I did this exercise a year ago, I made it all the way to #27 before I got to a song I hadn’t featured.
Lil Uzi Vert takes the #6 spot on Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop poll with a track titled ‘XO TOUR Llif3’ (translating, I suppose, to “XO Tour Life”).
According to the invaluable website Genius, this song is “about Uzi’s relationship issues with ex-girlfriend, Brittany Byrd, and substance abuse.” A rap break-up song? That could be interesting.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Migos, the artist at #3 on Billboard’s Hot 100 this week. Donald Glover even used part of his Atlanta Golden Globes victory speech to praise them.
So I had high hopes for ‘Bad and Boujee,’ their highest ranking song to date (it spent a couple of weeks at #1 a month or so back).
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