Ohio rapper makes his Hot 100 debut…
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James M Errington: This has me very confused. It’s a pretty decent Soundcloud rap track from the late 2010s, you could even nail it down to 2017 or so. The lyrics are about “Molly” “Xan” and depression, the flow is dazed and sad, the beats are lo-fi trap. But, obviously, it’s not 2017, it’s 2026. Soundcloud is unusable now, music has moved on, drugs have moved on at least twice. The people who made this kind of music are all gone. Comehelpglo seems like a Midwestern kid who would have been an actual kid when this sort of thing was popular. He has no facial tattoos but he does have a thin moustache. Just what exactly is going on here? It makes no sense at all. Anyway, song is pretty good.
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David Allun Jones: Minus some points for having me try to figure out for far too long which was the artist name and which the song title. Also, what in the “White Iverson” is this and do I have TikTok to blame for how it escaped the SoundCloud Rap realm to the Hot 100? Also also, I begrudgingly confess that the messy in me who loves ratchet drama would be highly entertained to attend a wedding where “Onsra”’s chorus was the ain’t-shit groom’s vows (while silently praying for someone to pull an Ashe and rescue the bride right afterward).
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Callie Petch: A cloud rap revival? In big 2026? …I’ll allow it.
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Nortey Dowuona: …could we at least attempt to be a little less conciliatory towards dull white rapping? All that whining about Louis Logic and Doseone and even Slug for this bullshit? Fuck outta here.
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Ashton Arbus: The newest in a long lineage of artists to be labeled as “the new Lil Peep” who make music less interesting and fully formed than the stuff he was making on his first project. Any possibly unique elements are cribbed straight from much better music that Bones and Yung Lean were making thirteen years ago. Sonic grave robbery.
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Al Varela: It’s so weird to hear songs like this on the charts again. Reminds me of the early cloud rap era where these nobodies with a hazy beat rap these melodic flows with a lonely hint of romanticism. “Onsra”’s foggy soundscape, with the echoed vocal sample as Comehelpmego raps like he’s jumping along with the crowd behind him, compels me in a strangely nostalgic way. Like I was back in those college years where everyone felt like opportunity and life was endless. Things have changed a lot since then, but the resonance lives on.
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Lichelle: I’ve never done Xanax recreationally, but I imagine it would be like this song: listless, sleepy, aimless.
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