The rapper’s first full length release, Lil Pump, offered features from contemporaries like Smokepurrp and more established artists like Chief Keef, Lil Yachty, and 2 Chainz the latter notably sings “Ice, ice freezing ice, ice sneezing’!” on “Iced Out. The tastemakers with the power to make and break careers and establish the public opinion granted Lil Pump access to the upper echelon of contemporary rap, handing him the keys to a kingdom dominated by giants like Lil Uzi Vert, Drake, and the Migos. His 2017 release “Gucci Gang” officially-unofficially contributed to the titular brand doubling their sales in the following year his self-titled debut scored a solid 6.9 from Pitchfork and an impressive 7/10 from popular internet figure, critic, and self-professed “internet’s biggest music nerd” Anthony Fantano. Garcia solidified himself as a keystone of pop culture. From posting tracks detailing both selling and doing drugs with the eldery on skeletal streaming platforms to a Saturday Night Live performance with Kanye West, Mr. Lil Pump emerged at the prime time for a persona of his nature to ascend into mainstream stardom. I find myself searching for an industry figure equivalent, or even similar to, Mr.
On a personal-parasocial level, the Broward county rapper repeatedly served as enthralling material for a trifecta of articles: a review on his full length albums, a diagram of his most frequently employed ad libs, and a critique of rap’s drug culture that has since claimed the lives of Lil Peep, Juice Wrld, and Mac Miller. The infectious trap sound that emerged out of Atlanta migrated to South Florida as rappers like Ski Mask the Slump God, XXXTentacion, and Lil Pump spun their own versions of the genre.
“Yeah, I sell crack in the halls,” brags a then-17-year-old Gazzy Garcia, better known by his rap moniker Lil Pump, on his track “Boss.” The single would be one of many that skyrocketed Lil Pump to the limelight of SoundCloud and “mumble rap” at the end of the 2010s.
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