Trill Sammy: Just Another Rapper Reminding Us What Hip Hop Is
New up and comer, Trill Sammy, made his big debut at SXSW this past weekend. His upbeat, basic heavy beats and steady rap sound is similar to current hip-hoppers like Rae Sremmurd, Fetty Wap, and D.R.A.M.
Sammy tweeted back in January, “SXSW imma fuck it up” to hype up his fan base about the biggest performance of his career so far. The 19-year old rapper began his fame on Twitter, where his freestyle raps received some attention.
“Uber Everywhere” is not the first single to help him take off. “Trappin” from January 2016 gained him some fame back then in Houston, and barely over a year later he got a slot at one of the biggest music festivals in the country.
The young rapper takes on the lifestyle that the rich and famous hip-hop artists brag about in their music. His successes is steadily trickling in, he is still not well known and not yet at the success level that his lyrics elude to. His main message is bragging about all the women flocking to him and all the weed he has to smoke. And most importantly how often he ubers, hence the title “Uber Everywhere.” I doubt Trill Sammy’s daily life resembles anything close to this. Instead of creating music from his lifestyle he is modeling his music after current and popular hip hop artists. These artists are setting the standard of what hip hop is and younger, aspiring artists follow their example.
Trill Sammy has a lot to say about women that objectify them and their bodies. He brags about moving on from one girl to her friend, kicking a girl out of the uber, and flying a girl from New York to Houston. He uses phrases dripping with misogyny like “I don’t love these hoes”, “I fucked them both cuz they were sisters”, and “long hair, light skin, ass phat — she a dime” just to name a few. It is hard to read through the lyrics to this song and not want to throw any and every feminist text at this rapper.
In his video he sports a light pink jacket with the playboy bunny symbol and the words playboy and joyrich scattered everywhere. His gold watch and necklace chains add to his bad boy rapper image. His two back up boys have on matching zip ups, one red and one black, and plain white ts. They’re never too far from the camera, but Trill Sammy is always featured in the center. The whole video features parts of Los Angeles, probably Fairfax where west coast rappers and skaters, like the odd future crew, are known to hang out. Marijuana smoke is basically the fourth credited member of this music video, its always luring around Trill Sammy’s face and is more present than the Uber drive (who should be the real star given the name of the song).
This is a classic case of the young boys looking up to the current power holders in the industry. They are setting an example that was set for them before, and the cycle continues. Trill Sammy is just another rapper proving that despite the recent changes, the cycle hasn’t changed. Degrading females is a main part of the industry that will not be die anytime soon. It has been squashed, other rappers have risen above the normal degrading and used different, more appropriate phrases while also gaining a lot of success for their tune. But it wont die, it can’t die because of how intertwined it is with success, those who have it want to gain more and those who don’t are chasing after it. Trill Sammy will probably grow a little more fans before he fizzles out and becomes another rapper that added an album or two to the industry to remind hip hop listeners how important bragging about and degrading women is.
