Dissect DJs - DaBaby - Rockstar feat. Roddy Ricch

Episode Date: July 24, 2020

We take on the up and coming chart topper of 2020 with DaBaby and Roddy Ricch (with 2 c's) to see what the modern day Rockstar is all about. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

D-Sex D-D-Js D-SETT-J. Like, how you pull up, baby? How you pull up? How you pull up? I pull up. Self in the kitchen. Let's go.

Brand new Lamborghini fuck a cop car. With a pistol on my hip like I'm a cop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you ever met a real nigga rock star? This ain't no guitar, this is a clock. My Glock told me to promise. Let me go. What's going on, everybody.

Dysk DJJ, it's your boy DJJ. And your boy, DJ Castle. Yes, Stacey! What's that I'm down? That's right, man. We're doing something new. We're bringing in one of those songs that we like to do where we haven't really exposed ourselves too much to it, haven't indulged ourselves too much to it, but it is reaching

the top charts not only in the United States, but globally, ladies and gentlemen. It is rock star by DaBaby featuring Roddy Rich and Roddy, Rich spells his name with two C's and an H. And two D's. For those of you, keeping his score. Yeah. Well, I mean, he should spell Roddy with two Ds. That part makes sense.

But I understand the rich sets them apart from those who were just somebody that was named Rod Rich. You know, for tax purposes. That makes sense. Yeah, yeah. This is a new track to both of us. I gotta be honest, can we stop using the name Rockstar for tracks? This is not going to happen. Never going to happen.

They're going to keep using it, aren't they? Yeah. It's partly like a rockster. You got to think about it. There's a rock star by Post Malone. there's I'm sure 20 other rock star songs that I'm not even named me right the 80s probably had 294 alone you're right and that was like I actually think you were correct on that number

I know how you knew that to the exact look it up that's all you got to say that is just look it up nobody ever actually wants to look that shit up do your research yeah I did my research do you know me like god damn he sounds confident it probably is actually exactly 294 in the 80s but the term rock star you got to think about all these guys who are going in the music industry they grow up with that rock star mindset like that's the epitome of what they want to be so when they're coming up with new tracks you think about what it'd like to put together a whole album one of those

tracks has got to be like well then there's got to be the one track about how i want to be a rock star or how i am a rock star you know so it makes sense like a rock star is like i'm gonna happen when i picture rock star i'm thinking guitar i'm thinking like kiss i'm thinking long here like rock star rock star why would you want to be a rock star if you're a rapper wouldn't you be a rap star well let's go ahead and look at the baby's variation of being a rock star he says brand new Lamborghini fuck a cop car with a pistol on my hip like I'm a cop yeah have you ever met a real rock star this ain't no guitar bitch this is a Glock all right hang on a second first of all he started strong with the whole brand new

Lamborghini, fuck a cop car. I don't know why he has to say fuck a cop car. It's not like anybody else was looking to bite, like are people rolling in the streets in the cop car? Like, yo, check out the new whip. Shoot. I've got the 20s of the back end. I see.

So you took it that way. I think the way he meant was that fucking cop car because he can out run a cop car because how fast the Lamborghini is. But I got to be honest with you, the only reason I decided to tell you that route is because I actually thought the same thing you did. And it was like, who is trying to buy a cop car and roll with that? The same exact thing. I really did.

The next few lines is specifically about, like, him pulling out his pistol. We'll say it. Let's see it. I told you about it. Like, the rest of it is a pistol. I'm a hit. I'm a cop. This ain't no guitar as a Glock.

Like, he's really making a point that, like, yeah, I got a gun on me. Yeah, he's really not, so he's really saying that he's not an actual rock star. The entire first. He's a criminal. No, the entire first, well, he's just somebody with a gun. Like, the whole. Guy with a gun with a Lamborghini. The whole first verse is literally about his gun.

done. And my Glock told me to promise he's gonna squeeze me. You better let it let me go the day you need me. Yeah, it's mostly about how he's strapped. Let me tell you something, Roddy. You are nothing without your Glock, okay? If you want to see me on the street without your Glock, honey, me and you, you know what, get your Lambo. I'll bring my Mitsubese. Run your ass over with that shit. My Mitsubishi Barrage gets 40 miles a gallon. What's you getting your Lambo, honey? What's you get your lambo? Three cylinders killing it. You got nothing on me, dude. You ain't no rock star. I'm a rock star. He's got a shit ton on you. I'm ready to hop out on the nigger get the bus.

Know you heard me say you play you late. Don't make me push the butt. Full of pain. Dropped enough tears to fill up a fucking fuck. Going for bugs. I'm ready to air it out on all the niggas. I can say I'm running. Just talking to my mom.

She hit me on face time. Just to check up on me and my brother. I'm really the baby. I have no idea what the fuck this guy is saying. Yeah, that was quick. That's going to be hard to break down. You know why it's a top song? Because no one he knows what the hell he's saying.

He just, I got a, I got a bububub. I got a butt. Well, I got a... Yeah, no, people don't... Whoa! Say, whoa! Anyway. Yeah, people don't actually tune into the top of the charts based on lyrics these days.

That's the thing. The era of Bob Dylan is long gone, you know? All you need these days is a very basic beat, and somebody that comes in with it, and then you just got to have the right... you know, social media team that tells them that this is the hit. And then everybody's going to be like, oh, no, this is the jam? And then everybody's like, wait, is this the jam right now?

Yeah, it'll be like, yeah. He got a couple. You know what it is? This is what gets people right here. And they go, yeah, you never heard this song? That right there. That's what makes people realize, like, oh, shit, I'm embarrassed. This is...

Whoa! Okay, let's go! You know that the baby boy was I was guaranteed to get the loot. You know what I do. She know if I run from a nigga, I'm gonna pull it out. Shoot. PTSD. I'm always waking up a cold Swiss like I got to.

My daughter is jeez. She's always waking up with the PCSD like he's got the flu? I don't even know where we are with the lyrics. Like, I'm actually trying to follow the legs. What I just got from whatever he just said is he has PTSD. He wakes up every morning feeling like he's got the flu. Sir, Roddy, or who's the other guy talking? Oh, yeah, I got that.

Or the baby. If you're sick every morning, sir, you need to probably go to the hospital, get yourself checked out, get a little physical, eat correctly. Eat your vegetables. you probably don't eat vegetables, do you, baby? So he's talking about his mama right now. He says, she knows that her baby boy was always guaranteed to get the loot. She know what I do. She know for everyone.

I'm going to pull it out and shoot. Boom. PTSD, I was walking up in cold sweats. Wait, real quick, where quick. Your mom knows that you're just going to pull out your gun and shoot. I don't think she would be very proud of you, Roddy, or baby. Who's talking right now? This is the baby.

Baby, I don't think your mother would be proud of you. She may know what you do, but she's not proud of you. She knows she's doing it. And then he drops. again, going back to it, you have PTSD. Then he drops the PTSD reference, and he says, PTSD, I'm always walking up in cold sweats like I got the flu. Waking up in cold, like he's got the flu.

I like that line, actually. It's good, but this man is sick every morning. You need to get healthy. It's the way of the streets, ma'am. No, he needs to eat better. It's got to live. He needs to eat better. Quantity chick would agree with me.

He said he eats vegetables. You got to get more fiber in your diet, right? No meats. He doesn't need any of any. I kill another nigga too Why let another nigga do something to you? And as you know that, I'm not about to tell you different daddy love you.

Did he just start whispering to us out of nowhere? I like it, though. You like the whisper? I don't like what a man whispers to me. You know what? Because he can't just be yelling at me the whole song. He wasn't yelling? He doesn't yell at what time.

If anything, I wanted him to yell right now and get the song. We were just talking about how it's a lot of aggressive rap where it's like he's running through stuff so quick that we're like, I can't really. There's no way I can actually follow what you're trying to say. Because like, your brain's moving at a speed where you hear something. You're like, wait, what was he trying to say? Oh, yeah, I got that. Next thing you know, you're like, oh, he's two lines later.

Like, there's no way anybody's brain is moving quick enough the first time they hear the songs where they're like, yep, okay, yeah, I got it. I got it. Oh, okay, yeah, good point. Excellent. All right, yeah. It's like Mario's teaching typing times 900, moving your brain through the way. So you like that he slowed it down and started whispering. I like that he does not doing that the whole time.

And then it's like, hey, real quick, drop it down. You're going to do it. You're gonna put your own little spin on it, but no, I like that he switched it up a little bit. Right, it's kind of catchy. I'm getting it now. I'll tell you what I like about it. Yeah. Yeah. There's gotta get a big man, m'em, da.

Yeah. Here's what I like. about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the smooth guitar in the background, like, crossed over with some gags. Yeah, it's a good mix right there. I like that. I like what they're doing.

I understand you, DeBaby. I still don't like that he was whispering to me, because I don't like any man whispering to me, but the... Yeah, that sounds like a personal you problem that you got to look into, but... I don't like it. The hook is fantastic. I like it. Keep a glocky when I ran in the suburban. It's a cold and had a young nigger swerving.

I got to mop. Watch me watch them like detergium. And I'm bawling. That's why it's diamonds on my shirt. Light on outside and flip the block back. Yeah, yeah. My junior popped them and left him off-sided, yeah, yeah.

This is Riding Rich, by the way. Got it. So he likes to make sure he has his block and his suburban? Yep. He keep a gawky when I ride in the suburban. That's a big car. Is he with anybody else in the suburban?

If not, he is wasting a lot of gas mileage. And again, my Mitsubishi Mirage, 40 miles of the gallon, absolutely demolishes the suburban as far as gas mileage. like 12 miles or something. Let me tell you something about Ready Rich. He's not driving to save gas money, okay? He's driving to roll

because the codeine has him swerving. Wait, so, and he's driving drunk, he's in a suburban wasting gas while drunk driving. All right, I'm going to cut off your gas money bullshit because the third line is actually, I got questions

about. I got the mop. Watch me wash them like detergent. What does a mop slain mops gotta be slang for something right there right mops watch it like detergent he's got the mop what does it mean when he says i got the mop what does that mean wash it like detergent what does that mean oh he's dirty

he's riding dirty oh he's ready to clean some shit up yeah all right clean up these streets and I'm bowling that's why it's diamonds on my jersey y'all bomb it up bomb it up or in basketball mop-ups where you had to take off your shirt and run the court in a suicide

I remember I'm doing that. Lop-ups. Yeah. Clean the court. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't think that's what we're talking about. No.

You can't cross me. You can't cross me again. Twelve hundred horse power. I get lost in the wind. If you're talking on it, y'all depend, dolls and take his chin. Made back SUV for my refugee. Five blocks in the hood. Put money in the streets.

I was solo, and the ops called me at the gas station. Had it on me 30,000 thought it was my last day. But they ain't even want no small. If I had to choose it, murder what she was you. Let's go. Oh! Rottie Rich! Bup, B, B, Boo.

You just told me. Riding Rich is crushing. You just started talking about a suburban and you riding in it and I lost it and... That is one of those verses where it doesn't even matter what he's saying. And let me tell you. You know who would have killed that verse? Ludacris.

Ludacris would have came with a fucking epic verse right here. Well, Ludicris is in the third verse Hall of Fame along with Snoop Dog. And I'm not putting Roddy Rich there. Well, he's not there yet. He's not there yet. But that was, no, I'm going to fight for Roddy Rich with two C's on this one. Because I think he's, I think he's, no, it's double D, double C. Roddy Rich.

R, D, D, Dillard, D, R, D, B, D, B, D, R, D, D. I think he's killing this verse, actually, man. Like, we spin this block got the rebound. Dennis Rodman! Anytime you want to reference Dennis Robin, get the rebound, pull me one time you can cross me again. He was actually all over. the map on that one, but like he kept it tight and he kept it simple and it was making points as he was doing it. He was able to make it so that this very simple guitar strumming in the

background actually felt like it was like picking up steam without even actually picking up steam. Just by his energy, he was making it feel like we're working towards a huge breakdown right now. Well, he probably was picking up steam. This bum, Roddy. And he probably... Rich with two seats! That beat was probably picking up because... the gas mileage was entirely too low.

which is kind of rude because I don't want to say fuck cops or anything like that but just such a catchy. I got to say I love anytime the entire hook of a song that's like number one on the charts is like something that like, there's no way that friendly world global culture is going to let this become a hit and then it does. There's sometimes where like a song just gets to a certain height where everybody just has to be cool with it. Eventually Kiss FM's like, I guess this is what the kids are listening to. We just got to play it. Like you know what I think? I always, when I think of that, I think of that Nickymanage song with Drake and Lil Wayne where she literally starts with, I never fucked Wayne, I never fucked Drake.

And if I did, I let them eat my ass like a cupcake. I heard that song like on Kiss FM and I started hearing it all over the place because they couldn't deny the hit that it became. And you know they were like parents all over driving a car full of kids. I were like, no, wait, what? No, we can't listen to that. So I feel like this is one of those ones Where shit gets a certain level They're gonna just start playing it everywhere And they don't give a fuck if you're talking about

Fuck a cop car I gotta piss on my hip I'm a cop This ain't no guitar bitch This is a Glock Yeah If it gets big enough Then like everybody's just got to run with it

And then eventually kiss of em They gotta be like Well yeah the baby has a good point This ain't no guitar bitch This is a Glock All right put it on there See Chris Give it a good lead in

And play. Here's a question for you. Do you think the baby... The baby... Has ever actually shot a Glock, like, at somebody. I'm not going to speak on the baby's history because I'm not going to pretend like I know what his whole background is all about.

I got to say if he went by the baby, that's somebody that has some fucking gangster-ass back shit going on. because if you didn't have complete confidence in your old cold-ass backdrop, you wouldn't be like, you know what I'm going to be the baby? Like you've got to be some hard-ass motherfucker if you're going to be like, you know, I'm going with the baby. That's my shit. Fuck the baby ain't shit.

He ain't never shot a Glock. He ain't got nothing, y'all. You ain't never shot a Glock. You might have a Lamborghini. You might have a suburban Roddy. Okay. And there might be a cop car. But if you name all three of those cars.

Lamborghini. Suburban, cop car. What's the best gas miles there? We're going to say cop car. Oh my God, get off the goddamn gas mileage thing. Wait, real quick. 30 miles and gallon for the cop car. Mirage gets 40.

My car beats all these cars. Fuck your cars. Fuck the baby. That's what I'm talking about. So in case y'all didn't know, this entire episode was an advertisement for a Mitsubishi Mirage. Or whatever the fuck brand makes, whatever. car Justin drives that he's really trying to hammer home the point about

about his fucking gas mileage. Nobody gives a goddamn, I don't, I've never known once any of the cars I've ever driven. I've never known what miles of the gallon is. I've never known at all. I would take the baby's Lambo though. Yeah, I ride that shit around the streets.

I even take a cop car. Give the Lamborghini 9 gallons to gas. Give my car 9 gallons of gas. Let's see who gets farther. That's all I got to say. What are you writing this, man? given the rock star. I'm going to say the guy with the Lambeau's going to get farther, but okay. You're trying to go tortoise over hair right now, right?

And the turtle wins every, every, have you ever seen that? Have you ever seen it? Turtle wins every time. He doesn't, actually. I don't actually understand, like, what happens in that book? Like, the hair just, like, dies? No, it keeps falling asleep because he keeps getting too far ahead. And then he falls asleep? That's his fucking problem for falling asleep in the middle of a race. Well, he gets tired from running all far. Anyway, rating all the rock stars. There's no way of hair would ever lose to a tortoise in an actual race.

You see how slow those motherfuckers move, dude? It would take them years to get to where the hair got to in like a single day. But I digress. Let's break down to baby, the rock star. Don't forget Roddy Rich. My man, Roddy Rich. Who sees? It's my, my mom, my dad, my mom, shit, my dad, my dad, my man.

Shut up. Go ahead. When you get a bag? I don't have a guitar, like a rock star, right? So all I could do was reach to the heavens and bring it down like somebody that's doing a massive guitar riff, right? And then I brought it back up like a second. So it was like a double guitar riff, you know? Because that's what I think of when I think of Rockstar.

You know what's interesting is the fact that it's called Rockstar, I would have expected more of like a mega guitar riff action going on. Like something like, but maybe, maybe they're talking. trying to reinvent what the whole rock star idea is either way i liked the song it was a good one i liked roddy rich's third verse and you know i'm big on my third verses so uh so once again it was three slaps and a guitar riff in a guitar riff yeah i like it you're going for mine yes it's two slaps and a snap two slaps and a snap this song will disappear in six months this song will never be played at a wedding after two years from now. No corporate event will have it after five years from now.

Rodney Rich, the baby, enjoy your time on top of the charts because unless you come up with some other kind of track... That's how tracks work, though. Yeah, but I just... You know what? Let me take one. You know, I'm redoing my thing.

I'm rebuttaling. He's going to take it down. I know, yeah. This is what it. Justin's so fickle. You say one thing about it in the middle of him giving his review. You're like, you know what? You're right.

I'm going to take away a snap and a slap. Can we do a reverse sound? You know what? All right. You know what? All right. All right. I'll make it a reverse sound in editing because I'm a post-edit master.

Go ahead. Do a slap. Actually, now that I'm listening to it, it's going to sound the same. It's going to be exactly. It's going to be exactly. In my head for some reason, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. It's not going to make it. It's good for now. It's cool.

But the babies never shot a gun. Roddy Rich doesn't even know who Rodman is. And my car gets better vast mileage. Obviously he knows who Rodman is. Every car that was named in this entire song, my car gets better gas mileage. Thank you. Wait a second. He absolutely knows who Rodman is because he referenced him on the rebound tip. No, it was written for him.

And he just started screaming. Hey, David, Dad. Devin, Rich Rodman! Fuck you. Yeah. All right, well, I do agree with you. I don't know how the staying power is exactly with it. It does feel like a song that is a time period piece that by next year probably will fade into the dust. But goodbye.

I like the vibes of it, though. And I feel like that's okay. For us, music listeners out there. And if you're listening to this, I like to think that maybe you're a music listener. That's got to be part of it, right? Don't ever be afraid to throw on a jam or listen to one yourself. that's a song that the rest of society decided like, you know what, we're done with that song.

Even if it was just hot for like a quick minute, if it worked for you, throw that shit on there. Remind yourself like, oh yeah, remember that second week of July when like we just jammed that shit nonstop? Throw it on there again and then take yourself back to that exact spot. That's what music has the power to do. And I've got to feel like this, the baby rock star jam, that's done that for some people.

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But with that I think we Dysected this shit out of the brand of the song Yeah exactly That shit's making the charts Hopefully it's not gone by the time we get this shit out there, but you know what? Next!