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Who let her out of the house like that?
Would we let her get away with it?
But sustaining and commodifying her viral fame was another challenge.
Asrecounted to Complex, the day after theDr.
He enlisted as her manager, and the brain trust went to work.
77 on theBillboardHot 100 thanks to an updated rubric incorporating YouTube plays.
Within weeks shed signed a multi-album deal with Atlantic Records.
The Cash Me Outside Girl Is Actually Good At Rapping, proclaimed aSeptember 2017Faderheadline.
Farrah Abrahamshasty synth-pop experiment, this is not.
From that conceptual perspective,15is none too ambitious, subsisting on a canny nihilism rather than outright shock value.
The minor-key three-chord progressions and sparse clap drums evince a slick polish rare among her most immediate contemporaries.
Can Bhad Bhabie rap?
The truth is she can.
Does she write her own rhymes?
Almost certainly not, but finding fault with that means you somehow supposed she did in the first place.
True, it never quite exceeds the threshold of Migos karaoke, butCandlebox had some jamstoo.
When asked by Grandmaison about her racial identity, she responded, I say Im clear.
I blend in like a fuckin … whats it, a flamingo?
(Grandmaison conjectured that she was in fact referring to a chameleon.)
This echoed a 2017 interview withThe Fader.
You cannot act a color,Bregoli declared.
You cant say Im acting black because I braid my hair.
15is peppered with drug references but for the most part abstains from kingpin narratives.
(A 2017 loosie titled Whachu Know with a chorus repeating Trap house, whachu know bout it?
and a video of Bregoli stalking through abandoned cityscapes was left off the track list.)
They all look like they need a hug.
Going on two years since the fatefulDr.
Philepisode, somehow were still watching.
Despite its histrionic overproduction,15s outro Bhad Bhabie Story is the most human moment in the platforms-spanning Bhad Bhabie oeuvre.
In a spoken-word monologue, she recounts selling drugs and reveals that her mother sent her toDr.
Philbecause she couldnt afford to send her to rehab.
At 15 years old, she sounds as thrilled as she is tired of her fame.
And then well all move on un-implicated, and Danielle Bregoli will be stuck being the Bhad Bhabie.
