Whatever Saweetie is doing, it’s working. The “Baby Hair Princess” has charted her second Top 10 hit with her Too $hort inspired single “Tap In.” The hip hop song has risen in stats from the No. 13 spot to the No. 9 position on the chart.
The uptick follows the release of a remixed version of the song that includes Jack Harlow, Post Malone and DaBaby. The single came out on August 28. Just recently, “Tap In,” which samples Too $hort’s “Blow The Whistle,” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Triller Global Chart, dated on August 21.
Born Diamanté Quiava Valentin Harper (whew, that’s a mouthful), Saweetie has been dropping back to back radio singles since her beginnings as “the rapper who did the freestyle over Khia’s “My Neck, My Back.”” The “Icy Girl” rapper has been sprouting in the hip hop game faster than planted beans in a cup.
Before “Tap In” became the hit that it is, the USC graduate was making headway with her single “My Type,” which samples Petey Pablo’s “Freek-a-Leek.”
With both “Tap In” and “My Type” being samples of other songs, Saweetie has been the subject of some conversation about how much sampling is too much. But, the rising star seems unfazed by her critics.
“Hip hop is built off of sampling so when they come for me I’m just like y’all just picking on me so whatever,” she’s quoted saying in an interview with Desus & Mero. “Too $hort loved it. The old heads loved it. So, it’s whatever. I love it. I’m happy it has taken off the way it’s taken off.”
Although Saweetie has a family full of dream fulfillers (the Bay area rapper is related to Cam Newton), she has definitely carved out a lane of her own. We can’t wait to see whether the “Princess of Baby Hairs” will become the fan-selected “Princess of Rap.”
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