Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Woeingstone Music Now.

Today we're going to do the year so far in hip-hop to help us out.

We have Charles Holmes here. you have made a list of some of the best stuff and it's kind of limiting to do just albums in rap especially now it's more singles driven than ever

it's playlist driven it's moment driven. You made a list of some

albums, you made a list of some singles. I thought maybe we'd actually start with some singles.

Okay, cool. Let's do it. I feel like I agree and I probably got into it first both from you and from rap

caviar de baby he's hilarious yeah man de baby he's a great guy interviewed him a

couple months ago I think de baby is a good example of a form of rap and a form of coming up in rap that we don't see that much.

You know he's a little bit older. He had been on the scene forever, a super grassroots movement, he was making these hilarious

videos on YouTube and just slowly slowly building. I think one of the videos

that really kind of catapulted him initially was Walker, Texas Ranger.

This was about the time that Old Town Road was coming out.

This was him like in a cowboy suit.

It was very, very, just like hopping,

not really even hopping on that wave.

He was just very, very good at noticing that this was about to become a thing.

And then he honestly blew up with Shug, which when I listened to it, I didn't even know

that that would be the single that would pop pop but I'm glad that it did.

I mean to Baby is like a perfect example of a rapper who. To me he's in that

traditional space of just giving that feeling of aggression and just kind of like not caring he goes viral so many times for

getting up in people's faces he's not afraid to like back down when people try him

did he literally take a dude down in a viral video

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