Wednesday 3/17: Rx Nephew—"American TTerrorist"
Today, we share our thoughts on a nine-and-a-half minute sermon from the Rochester, NY rapper Rx Nephew.
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Today, we share our thoughts on a nine-and-a-half minute sermon from the Rochester, NY rapper Rx Nephew.
Rx Nephew—"American TTerrorist"
Michael Brooks:
If I’m being perfectly honest with you, I have no idea where to start with “American Tterrorist”. I saw this song all over my timeline last week and it’s hard to put into words how much joy that it brings me. Listening to “American Tterrorist” is a religious experience, I think there’s a decent chance that it might even go down as the “American Pie” of the current generation. The song also goes by “9 Minutes of Hell” which I guess is probably what it sounds like if you consider Rx Nephew to be some kind of false prophet or something, but for the rest of us there’s nothing else out there that’s quite like it. Nephew starts the song off by talking about the bible—specifically the stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Job—questioning his faith with lines like “Job lost his whole fucking family / And they said God gave him a hundred cows / Like two hundred horses or something / How the fuck is that worth my kids?”
After that, he ponders the end of the world, “They said the world would end in 2012 / I was selling crack in 2012” before calling out Benjamin Franklin and Christopher Columbus. He goes on a brief tangent about Jehova’s Witnesses, taking a brief pause halfway through to talk about how badly he wants to beat Santa Claus with a hammer, and then a couple minutes later we’re back to Cain and Abel “Shit, Cain and Abel was tripping anyway / Shit, they trying to kill each other with an axe / They put this shit all in the bible / So you know damn well this ain’t cap”. I’m barely scratching the surface here on everything that “American Tterrorist” has to offer, just give it a listen for yourself.
Eli Enis:
I’ll pick up where Michael left off. He also calls out Simon Cowell from American Idol, Donald Trump, people who eat meat, Will and Jaden Smith, Chris Brown, Snoop Dogg, and old church ladies who are cougars. He also drops lines like this, “They say there's seventy-seven sextillion stars in the sky / I ain't even heard that number before until they told me that lie / I'm like, ‘How the fuck—? Hold on, which telescope and what person count that with they eyes?’” And this: “Why the fuck I need a drivers' license? / If I crash, I'm the only one dyin' / If somebody else die, it was meant to go / Y'all the ones who put that shit in the Bible.” There’s really nothing worth saying about this song, it speaks for itself. For nearly 10 minutes straight. One of the most insane rap tracks I’ve ever heard. Listen.