So this is an interesting one.
I've seen so many people talk about the controversies around Kid Buu, but not many
actually talking about his music.
So even though he doesn't have a whole lot out, just like the Lil Pump video, we're
making an exception and doing one on him early because i was really curious to see how his
music sounds, and I have something to say about it.
So today in Worst Rappers in the Game? we will be looking at the man formerly known
as Humongous the God.
aka 30 year old who pretends to be 20.
To get an opinion of his music, I listened to his Blind For Love project and three separate
singles that he has also released.
So, is Kid Buu one of the worst rappers in the game?
Well this is CDTV, and that's the question we're about to answer.
Part 1: Voice
Kid Buu has claimed that he is a clone, and you guys might be surprised when I say this,
but I believe him.
And here is the proof.
Like yeah, this is the proof, his music is the proof because oh my god this guy does
not have his own unique sound.
You're gonna notice a theme with each of these segments in this episode, and that is
that it's hard to grade Kid Buu's music like this because he literally copies other
rappers styles.
Like I don't mean indirectly, I mean straight up biting their music with no shame.
And because of this, it's honestly impossible to actually decipher what his vocal style
is.
As far as I'm concerned Kid Buu doesn't exist vocally.
A perfect example of this is the song Heart Break where he sounds like Trippie Redd on
the hook and sounds like a carbon copy of Lil Uzi on the verses.
It's the same for the song No Romance too.
There are songs like Greener Days though, where it's either him actually sounding
a bit different, or I just haven't heard the rapper or song that he's biting yet.
But the problem with that song is that his voice just sounds dreadful anyway.
It sounds like if you took an early 2000's emo band singer and waterboarded his voice
with autotune.
As for the tracks where he's not singing and he's just rapping, his voice can be
ok, but it's just very non-descript like on the song Double Up.
I honestly think the only song where I like his voice is the verse of On Me, and that's
pretty much it.
Overall, I'm gonna have to give Kid Clone a 1/10 for his voice.
I just cannot give him a higher score when he's intentionally ripping off other rappers
styles, because it means Kid Buu doesn't actually have a voice.
I legit would not recognise him if he featured on someone else's track, and I genuinely
can't say that for any other rapper in this series.
Part 2: Flow
As you can imagine, this one isn't really that different from the last segment.
Usually when you're imitating another rappers voice, you try to hide it by doing a different
flow, but not Kid Duuplicate.
And by far, the absolute worst showcase of this is on the song Dead Roses.
I don't know how he managed to do this man.
Kid Buu, you ripped off NAV.
How do you rip off Navraj?
How in the world do you rip off somebody who isn't even that original himself in the
first place?
He even straight up re-uses some of NAV's lyrics.
That is theft on a whole different embarrassing level.
Another shameful example of this is Death 2 SoundCloud, where he steals Smokepurpp's
flow for the hook and X's flow and ad libs for the verses.
This mans taking so many bites that I'm surprised he's still skinny.
But, I do have something at least kinda positive to say here.
Even though they're not original flows by any means, he pulls off some impressive cadences
on poppa, On Me, and Double Up.
He's obviously aiming for a Ski Mask Flow, who features on the track, but at least it
goes together nicely.
I'm gonna give him a 3/10 here, his flows are definitely compatible with the beats he
uses and he doesn't really have any glaringly bad ones, but again the biting is just way
too strong.
You can't really give someone a high score for listening to someone else's rapping
and structuring their bars the exact same way.
Part 3: Lyrics
We don't need to spend too much time on this one.
Like, at all.
The best way I can show this is by bringing up a point about most of the rappers in this
series so far; most of them, even the ones with obnoxiously bad lyrics, have something
that is unique to them.
You hear it in their lyrics and you know it's them.
With Juice WRLD you'll get sad lyrics about drug abuse and heartbreak.
With NAV you'll get the same, with more glorification of the drugs and a sprinkle
of brown boy thrown in there.
Even Lil Pump has lyrical tendencies, talking about having sex with your family members
and ridiculous lyrics that are funny cause they don't make sense.
It fits the ignorant but confident character he's tryna portray.
Just little things like that that you then associate with that artist.
Kid Buukake doesn't have any of this.
Nothing that I hear and think of him.
Also if you care about rhymes at all, he's not even good at that, commonly rhyming with
just one syllable or just throwing out any attempt at writing and just rhyming the exact
same words with each other.
No creativity, no originality, no interesting mannerisms or any cool concepts, big fat old
0/10 for you my man.
And I don't give those out lightly, Kid Kounterfit is literally devoid of anything
to make him stand out.
If you could point out a bar of his that has actually stuck with you in the comments, I'll
give you a big old heart on that comment, cause I can't think of one.
Part 4: Beats
Unsurprisingly, this is the best aspect of Buu's music, he frequently works with a
producer called Oohdem Beatz, and he's fairly good.
Nothing innovative of course, but he knows how to make some hard hitting production.
For example, the beat for Death 2 SoundCloud, that is just incredibly hard.
The bass is very heavy without being distorted, it sounds very Ronny J-like, and the siren
sound adds even more urgency to the sound of the beat.
But without a doubt, the most interesting beat he has used is the one for Poppa.
It's got this chilled out vocal sample in the background, but most of the other elements
of the beat have a kind of creepy sound to them and it makes for an interesting contrast.
And anther great beat is the one for his song Drought Season.
Honestly there's not really any beats he's used that I think are awful, but there are
a few that are just kinda average.
Tracks like Say No Names and Heart Break don't really have production that is that intriguing,
and that's not great when production is pretty much the primary reason to listen to
Kid Buu.
Considering that most of the beats alone sound pretty good and they do work with Kid Buu
well enough, I'll drop him a 7/10 for this.
Just like with everything else, his production choice doesn't have any unique elements
to it at all, and it only changes depending on who he's copying, but fundamentally it
does sound nice.
Part 5: Enjoyment
You already know he's not getting a high score here.
Now I can kinda understand why no one has really talked about Kid Buu's music in a
critical way, because it's just very obviously a rip off.
And it's very clear that he knows this.
You see, he even directly copied his name from Kid Buu, a character from Dragon Ball
which I'm pretty sure is a copyright infringement issue but whatever.
Now in Dragon Ball, Kid Buu is a character that, from what I understand, changes his
powers depending on who he absorbs.
In that way, there's kind of a concept around Kid Buu the rapper, where he does the exact
same thing, but just absorbs other rappers cadences, lyrics and flows.
That's almost a cool idea, but does that really excuse the fact that he just chose
that name as an excuse to not be unique in any way, shape or form?
Absolutely not.
All you need to know is his best songs are Double Up, poppa, On Me and Drought Season.
Boom bam pow, let's him with the 0.5/10 for my enjoyment.
This is another one of those rare rappers in this series where I legitimately do not
feel the need to come back to his music ever again, unless he drops something new to check
out if he's improved, and that is not an exaggeration.
Part 6: Verdict + Ranking
So overall, Kid Buu gets a score of 12/50 here, placing him pretty close to the bottom
of our list as you can imagine.
More specifically, this puts him at number 23 out of 25, 1 spot below Lil Pump (who definitely
needs to be re-rated soon), and 1 spot above Lil Xan.
And even then, I might have to give Xan an extra point here or there to move him up,
because at least he's recognisable.
Kid Copy Paste is genuinely the most disposable rapper I've ever heard.
When you've listened to a full tape from an artist and you still genuinely don't
know what that rapper actually sounds like, that's a problem.
(Outro)
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