Maybe try another revision? Or five?
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Crystal Leww: The original “Butterfly Doors” featured a Yao Ming/”Asian people have eyes that look like they smoked a bunch of weed” punchline and a ching-chong ad-lib. I’m not even mad (and I think Asians have a lot of shit like Awkwafina and G-Dragon to answer for, but putting that aside for a sec), it’s just insanely dumb. I’m glad that Lil Pump issued an apology and re-did the song because “Butterfly Doors” is also insanely dumb. It’s followed the template for “Gucci Gang” to another catchy and popular tune made for repetition in big groups at the hip-hop club. It’s not worth getting mad about! It’s not high art, either.
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Joshua Minsoo Kim: Lil Pump apologized for the racist Yao Ming line and “ching chong” ad-libs in “Butterfly Doors,” but his solution to the song was to simply remove them like you would for curse words on the radio. This is admittedly hilarious and more interesting than anything the song has to offer musically.
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Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: I’m pretty sure these keyboards are Yamaha presets from the mid ’00s. The anti-Asian racism is also from then, but Pump’s precise brand of lazy sub-Migos material is, as always, of the moment. I’m thankful for “Butterfly Doors” for one reason, though: confirming that “I Love It” was a career high for Pump.
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Alfred Soto: This only proves how fake Migos is harder to create than we thought.
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Thomas Inskeep: Preset Soundcloud trap track to “complement” a rapper who sounds like he has vocal sound-effect Tourette’s (and empty lyrics). And it’s a chorus twice plus a verse: is that all there is?
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Julian Axelrod: For a product of the Soundcloud scene, Lil Pump fits the YouTuber mold to a T: the sophomoric catchphrase-first sensibility, the vampiric use of rap as both clout and cushion, and now the casual racism/halfhearted apology/fumbled redemption play. He’ll probably have a Netflix deal by 2020.
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