Somehow, the hip-hip world has actually managed to find somebody worse at “rapping” than Young Thug. Meet Gazzy Garcia, aka Lil Pump, the lean-sippin’, 17-year-old embarrassment to the music industry that blew up on SoundCloud in the spring of 2016 with the release of his debut self-titled song.
The Miami, Florida, native began rapping after he was expelled from both public high school and an opportunity school for multiple counts of fighting and inciting a riot. In an interview with Lyrical Lemonade, Pump explains how he met frequent collaborator Smokepurpp at just 13 years old. The mediocre producer/rapper connected with Pump over his ability to toke the ganja and let him freestyle over a beat.
Pump posted the absolute dumpster fire of a track to his SoundCloud page, and it caught traction. Since then, Pump and Smokepurpp continue to crank out their lazily written tracks that showcase Pump’s inability to form even the slightest of coherent verses with his adlib-infested flow. Add in some pity-recorded verses from artists including 2 Chainz and Rick Ross, and out comes Pump’s first self-titled mixtape that gives all listeners an immediate urge to slam their head in a car door. But what more do people want from someone who idolizes Chief Keef?
“What U Sayin’” kicks off the album with one of the most repetitive and nonsensical lyrical performances on the project. Pump says the phrase “whatchu gotta say” a total of 39 times in a mere two minutes and 20 seconds.
The next track fails even harder, with Pump showing off his third grade vocabulary skills by repeating the title “Gucci Gang” 50 times in just over two minutes. His child-like intellect especially shines through with bars like “me and my grandma take meds” and “Lil Pump still sell that meth.” How inspiring, a 17-year-old kid who thinks selling highly dangerous drugs is cool. Such a joy to see teenagers try and make a rap career out of blatant lies.
The next 13 tracks are about as repetitive as the first two, culminating with one of his most widely known tracks, “D Rose.” This is, by far, the most pathetic effort at a hip-hop banger ever to hit streaming services. Piggybacking on Terrotuga’s excruciating production, Pump offers just one verse of 31 seconds between four hooks and a wall of heavily distorted 808 basslines. Apparently, broken speaker-sounding production is the new black for the boys over at Pump’s label, Tha Lights Global.
“Nah, I’m a Heat fan. I just made that ‘D Rose’ song ‘cause it sounded fire,” Pump told Noisey with his self-proclaimed “it-norant” attitude. Coming from a kid who probably could not correctly identify what team Derrick Rose actually plays for, it looks like he does fit the description of the correctly pronounced term “ignorant.”
Of the 15 tracks on the project, only five manage to make it past the three minute-mark. The longest is “Youngest Flexer,” featuring Gucci Mane. While Pump continues to act like a poser from “the trap,” Gucci lays down a stereotypical verse the only way he can, with his monotone delivery and lyrics of money and loose women.
If the hip-hop world and all of its true fans needed a sign that the “trap” genre needs to die before its listeners turn into the most dull-minded people on the planet, “Lil Pump” is it. This will go down in history as the most undignified compilation of music that nobody asked for.
Image from Lil Pump via YouTube.com
