Rocky raps, “I don’t feel a thing,” but continues to repeat, “I can feel the bass.” Even if you let nothing get to you, the primal, immersive physicality of the music is overpowering. It’s hip-hop gone warehouse industrial, and it’s exhilarating. The opener is an onslaught of aggressive, abrasive synth bass over a skeleton of a classic “boom-bap” beat, cloaked in reverb. It might sound downright alien to the average hip-hop head, a point Rocky acknowledges on his opening track, “Distorted Records,” claiming to be, “from a different planet.” His new record, the appropriately titled “ Testing ,” is his most radical output by far. On the follow up, “$AP,” he claimed to have relinquished any such concern for popular taste, but still managed to debut at number one. He has spoken of how he felt a need to prove, on his debut mixtape, “$AP,” that he could make chart toppers while remaining true to his artistic instincts. He famously began combining avant-garde high fashion with streetwear at least a decade before it became ubiquitous, before going on to model for DIor, and his music has always been correspondingly ahead of its time. If you simply take a look around the hip-hop scene, you’ll need to credit Rocky. These days rappers are expected to brag, but very few have actual bragging rights - ASAP Rocky is one of those who has earned them.
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So although Scott didn't necessarily sample Kingdom Hearts - although it's possible he did and simply chopped and changed it - there's at least a solid chance that he was influenced by it (although the bass drop in Kairi's Theme is way heavier). It's not quite a direct sample, and relies more on a lo-fi synthetic sound than the enchanting, xylophonic refrain of the Kingdom Heart's variant, but the pair are sufficiently close to one another as to note the comparison, especially if you're willing to slightly speed up the bpm in Kairi's Theme to match the cadences.
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As it turns out, The Scotts features an incredibly similar progression to Kairi's Theme from Kingdom Hearts. "If anyone can help me ID this song I'd be forever indebted."Īnother Redditor came to the rescue. "Now its teasing me even more and it's reappearing in a rap song as part of the beat," writes the poster. It sounded so vaguely familiar, but to what? One listener took to Reddit in search of aid.
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However, it didn't take long for avid Kingdom Hearts players to notice a similarity it shared with a track they couldn't quite place. The song was received incredibly well, amassing over 7.5 million views in less than a week. Last week, Travis Scott dropped "The Scotts," a new track featuring Kid Cudi. A recently released Travis Scott song sounds like it samples a beloved track from Kingdom Hearts.