Who Needs an Album? Just Keep Remaking the Song!
Recent hits by SpotemGottem and Lil Nas X show the power of extending the life of a single track, album be damned.
SpotemGottem’s “Beat Box” has had an extended life thanks to additional remix versions of the song featuring other rappers.Credit...Esdras Thelusma
April 28, 2021
“Beat Box,” by the young Florida rapper SpotemGottem — a thunderous, pulsing sneer of a track — was released just over a year ago. It bubbled lightly throughout the summer and fall, and then in December came a remix, “Beat Box 2,” with the rising Memphis star Pooh Shiesty. Not long after, on Dec. 23, a dancer named Junebug posted a video doing an exaggeratedly comic shimmy dance step to the song. Called the #JunebugChallenge, it spread wildly on TikTok, replicated in oodles of videos.
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Those who frequent the TikTok universe may have come across last winter’s viral Junebug Challenge, in which participants find unusual locations where they perform a dance move to “Beat Box 2,” a track by Florida rapper
SpotemGottem featuring
The dance’s Richmond, California-based originator, known as
Junebug, has been touring the U.S. since January to perform his eponymous dance move at clubs and parties. Earlier this month, Junebug visited the DMV, where he appeared at a go-go event with
“Since the challenge went viral, everything as far as numbers and followers have been going up like crazy," Banks tells
New Times. "I have a very busy schedule now. I have more interviews, more bookings, more hostings. Since then, everything has started to speed up."
Featured on the self-titled album Banks released last summer, “Buss It” went from being the song she wasn’t sure about to the one that has catapulted her name into up-and-comer status.
On the success of the #BussItChallenge, the Dallas-based 1501 Certified Entertainment rapper has signed a deal with Warner Records and seen her song shoot to the number-one position on the
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What is the Junebug Challenge? How do you do it? Who came up with it? What song is used? How did it get Casanova in trouble? We break down the TikTok trend.
Casanova, who is currently in jail and being charged with numerous gang-related racketeering crimes, is facing more discipline after a video surfaced of the maskless Brooklyn, N.Y. rapper doing the Junebug Challenge during a recent video jail visit.
On Feb. 3, Cas' girlfriend, known as Swaggy Jazzy on Instagram, posted an Instagram video of the rapper doing the popular dance challenge, which finds participants doing moves in random locations to the tune of SpotemGottem's song "Beat Box 2." Casanova did the challenge during a video jail visit at the Westchester County Department of Correction in Valhalla, N.Y.
"I'm teaching my bae how to do the #jungebugchallenge," she captioned the clip, adding crying laughing emojis. "Y'all don't want no smoke my baby still got it."