The previous decade has seen an explosion within the variety of YouTube channels showcasing rappers flexing on the mic. NYC-based On the Radar Radio has emerged as one of the vital well-liked of the bunch.
Hosted by Energy 105.1 on-air character Gabe P, On the Radar has made a reputation for itself by constantly delivering memorable moments from a few of the hottest up-and-coming rappers within the sport. The channel has turn out to be so well-liked that it’s even attracted established acts like Meek Mill and Drake, the latter of whom accompanied the newly minted UK star Central Cee.
The most recent MC to utterly torch the On the Radar mic is Decatur, Ga.’s personal Child Tate. Rapping over the “Let’s Get Blown” beat, which the Neptunes produced for Snoop Dogg again in 2004 for his R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece album, Tate returns for her second freestyle and sends a couple of photographs at her doubters, rapping, “They are saying I blink like Nicki, gown like Kimmy, get actual freaky on a monitor like Missy, cocky like Rih Rih, tough like E-V-E, however I don’t perceive why n—as gained’t let me be me.”
Elsewhere, Tate provides props to a few of her main inspirations, which embrace her mom, singer Dionne Farris, in addition to Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Eve, Kelis, Lauryn Hill and extra, however laments the truth that as a result of she’s a Black lady, “They don’t see Kendrick in me, they don’t hear the Ye, and so they don’t see the P.”
However don’t simply learn the lyrics; go watch it. She goes in for your entire two minutes and 10 seconds that she’s onscreen.
Tate’s been killing it since she dropped her 2016 Toni Basil-interpolating “Hey Mickey!,” which turned a viral smash seven years later due to TikTok. Most not too long ago, TikTok gave her one other help when her 2022 collaboration with JID and 21 Savage, “Encompass Sound,” powered what turned referred to as the “ceiling problem,” which noticed followers inserting their telephones on the ceiling to get a hen’s-eye view as they danced to the tune. The monitor, which peaked at No. 40 on the Billboard Sizzling 100, was propelled to No. 1 on Billboard‘s Rhythmic Airplay chart final month.
