Hazbeen is shaking things up and turning heads with their new single, "I Don't Like Rap," a track that navigates the fine line between satire and boasting without dropping the ball. Starring the mighty King Kashmere, it's as ironic as it's infectious, mocking hip-hop clichés while also celebrating the form's unrelenting creativity and edge. King Kashmere steps in on his guest verse and inherits the heat by laying out rhymes on the record with chilled nonchalance, further pushing through this song's peculiar character. They produce a push-pull dynamic that feels fresh, raw, and reverent in a strange way.
"I Don't Like Rap" confronts the audiences with a challenge to everything they're about to hear. It's a tight, modern-sounding production, a bass-heavy groove with a hook that wraps itself around your brain as if it owns the place. Hazbeen doesn't just rap but they comment on rap, in sharp-tongued lyrical jabs and clever turns of phrase that reveal a depth of knowledge about the culture they're ostensibly dising.
It's meta-rap at its strongest self-aware yet not pretentious, funny without being corny, rebellious without overreach. It's the type of song that will make you nod along with a smirk, Cengiz memorizing the entire image to video. The hook, simple, defiant, and undeniably catchy, was made for being screamed at a live performance, and you can already picture a crowd shouting "I don't like rap!" with full-on hip-hop energy.
Hazbeen isn't trying to bargain his way into propriety here, and that is precisely the point. "I Don't Like Rap" is a tongue-in-cheek anthem for the genre-lover who's in on the joke and perhaps also for the genre-hater who will secretly replay it on the low. It's a shrewd, sly, and unexpectedly addictive track that demands to be played loud and often. If this is your first experience hearing Hazbeen, let it be a warning: you're not just listening to a song, you're being invited into a discussion.
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