It’s the song that’s forced Paul McCartney and Ringo. Pitchfork, Billboard, and Rolling Stone all named Black Beatles one of the top songs of 2016. One of the few things that’s made this awful year tolerable is the privilege of bearing witness to Rae Sremmurd’s Black Beatles.
That month, Black Beatles jumped from #9 (an appropriately Beatles-y spot) on the Billboard charts to #1, where it mostly remained into January, 2017. Its success was widely attributed to the viral mannequin challenge. The Mississippi brothers’ hit became a global ‘epidemic’ when it became the soundtrack to the mannequin challenge. Love those Black Beatles #MannequinChallenge /aAu9umHKI7 In November, 2016, an original White Beatle, Paul McCartney, posted his own mannequin challenge video on Twitter. Swae Lee called McCartney’s acknowledgement “the ultimate co-sign.” In November, the duo recorded their own mannequin challenge video on stage, prompting future mannequin challenge videos to use Black Beatles as their soundtrack. Black Beatles - song by Brant Made The Beat, That Girl Is A Real Crowd Pleaser Spotify Listen to Black Beatles on Spotify. It was Swae Lee who came up with the title for 'Black Beatles.' Slim Jxmmi recalled to Billboard magazine: 'We was freestyling and he said that then we went in and recorded it.' Slim Jxmmi's verse was inspired by The Beatles' ' Day Tripper. But, Rae Sremmund’s record label hatched a plan to capitalize on the trend. Early mannequin challenge videos-credited to Florida high-school students in October, 2016-featured no music. In the song, they portray themselves as black counterparts to rock icons The Beatles and reference John Lennon’s signature round eyeglasses.īlack Beatles was fairly popular right away, but rose to greater heights on the back of a massively viral video craze, the mannequin challenge, in which a camera tracks around people frozen in various poses like mannequins.
Rapper Gucci Mane takes a verse on it, too. Black Beatles was released in September, 2016 by the duo Rae Sremmurd, made up of brothers Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi.
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