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Switched on Pop

The Dual Meaning of Fetty Wap’s Trap Queen

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Fetty Wap’s Trap Queen is an unlikely contender for the top 10. It straddles genres between hip-hop and pop in subtle yet mesmerizing ways. Is it a drug song? Is it a love song? Or is it both at the same time? Join us to find out why you can’t get this ear worm out of your head. FEATURING Fetty Wap – Trap Queen Dr. Dre – Still Dre Peter Gabriel – In Your Eyes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to switched on pop. I'm Nate Sloan and I'm Charlie Harding and today we be counting up watch how far the bands go

0:08.6

We just set a goal talking matching lambos

0:21.6

Charlie good to hear your voice you too. It's been a while too long all the listeners all the loyal listeners have switched on pop out there

0:28.9

Apologies for the delay some interesting things have happened in our absence. There's some new names on the charts

0:37.1

What's that number three on the charts right now? So we've got Fettie Wap with trap queen say that five times fast

0:45.5

Fettie Wap trap queen Fettie Wap trap queen toy

0:49.6

You know a lot of people are predicting this as a song of the summer which is actually over almost a year old at this point

0:55.4

But it's just risen to the scenes. I think it would be good to go in and take a listen

1:25.8

Uncle

1:50.7

It's

1:55.4

I just look at my baby, baby, I just look at my little baby, fly with my baby, yeah.

2:00.4

And like it right, with my baby, I really, really can't just cook and fall, I'm like,

2:05.4

I must say when I first heard the song, I was like, okay, like maybe not a lot going on here,

2:11.2

it seems really repetitive.

2:12.9

Yeah, not that it isn't repetitive, it is incredibly repetitive.

2:17.1

Right.

2:17.6

But it almost becomes this sort of like Zen repetition, intoning a mantra perhaps.

2:24.4

Before we get too deep into the song, do you want to just give us a little background

2:28.0

on where this is coming from and why maybe it's a very, a typical contender for a song

2:32.4

of the summer?

2:33.4

Yeah, so what again, we were totally unfamiliar, I think like most of America with Fetty

2:38.2

Wap or Fetty Wap, a rapper from Patterson, New Jersey, who lost his left eye at a young

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