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RE: POP MUSIC HAIKU: GUCCI GANG (Lil Pump)
The white styrofoam cups in the music video are for Xanax which he references that he and his grandma take meds. It became a really popular thing to take Xanax among the rap community in rap videos. It was the same thing LIl Peep overdosed on a few months ago. He was another rapper popular among teenagers. Lil Pump is only 17 by the way. I watched some video clips on YouTube a few months ago and in every video clip he is either smoking weed or really high on it. You also see him surrounded by his managers who are in their 30s and 40s. I think it is kinda messed up that they are profiting off of him and providing him with marijuana and possibly writing his songs for him. He isn't even an adult yet.
Right? It's pretty crazy. One part of me thinks, "Oh, I;m just some old dude now, critical of teenage culture that I don't understand." Then, the rational human being steps in and thinks, "This is really sad. Not only are we glorifying vices (no big deal really, this is the legacy of pop music), but it's being produced by and targeted to kids under 18! It certainly feels like a boundary has been crossed that shouldn't be."
Geez, at least Lil Peep was in his 20s (I'm fairly certain), not that his audience was. And the adults surrounding Pump promoting, profiting, etc...quite bleak. I certainly got an education digging into the meaning of the lyrics (as you point out with the Xanax...)
lean - codeine or xanax mixed with sprite and jollyranchers served in a styro cup
red bottoms - Christian Louboutin shoes
balmains - ridiculously expensive couture
ten racks - $10,000
...and on and on into the vortex of utter hollowness :(