Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your Vine Party of Music News and

participation on Cars. I'm your host Ben Ratliff. Jammu Beach, beets, go at me.

And chewing on some hot, boy, like I talk to

she, see when I sht'baws.

Like you see them twirled and he dropped.

And we keep the m mode to my block and my say keep it on him he doesn't drop

And we be while he's some hot tone's only get busy with him.

Try to run down and you can catch a shit.

You've been listening to Hot Boy by Bobby Schmerta,

which has been around all summer.

Yeah. Although some people may not have known about

it until after the appearance of a very popular vine.

Right, and I think also when we'll get to this later, I think there's probably a whole second wave of people who didn't even know about it off that, but who now know about it because it's number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Right. So there's an EP out, a Bobby Schrda, just came out this week.

EP out.

And the song, Hot Boy, is, as you said, number eight on the billboard chart.

Right, and the raise on debt of the EP is,

it only exists because of the success of the song like you know it's not I don't I would

actually rather hear like a 14 track Bobby Schmerto mixtape that what did not have the involvement of his label then this five-track EP.

Answer one question for me.

Can a single rise to number 8 on the Billboard chart on the strength of Vine plays.

I would say that algorithm is probably not completely conducive to that, but I do think that

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