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So your girl likes hippity-hop?
Darius, bless him, asks.
Oh yeah, shes gangster, bro, the guy (very unconvincingly) responds.
When Paper Boi and Darius head out, the spam begins.
Its a sound so foreign to Paper Bois ears, he doesnt even know what hes hearing.
Its an acoustic rap cover, Darius explains.
White girls love that shit.
I mean, hes not wrong!
Bryce Hitchcock, an actual YouTube cover artist who plays Amber, tells Vulture.
Shed never covered a rap song before.
Part of the process was finding a way to make Paper Bois song my own thing.
They were all like, Oh, dang.
Whered that come from?
Then you get people who have no reference for those songs doing covers.
We knew its something that would happen in the real world.
You wouldnt hear a middle-class white girl singing about this.
Its things she would run away from.
But because the song is so popular, [Amber] gravitates to it.
At some point, well package these songs and release it.
You just havent heard anything but the chorus.
We might drop it in the future.
