But, Rae Sremmund’s record label hatched a plan to capitalize on the trend. Early mannequin challenge videos-credited to Florida high-school students in October, 2016-featured no music. In the song, they portray themselves as black counterparts to rock icons The Beatles and reference John Lennon’s signature round eyeglasses.īlack Beatles was fairly popular right away, but rose to greater heights on the back of a massively viral video craze, the mannequin challenge, in which a camera tracks around people frozen in various poses like mannequins. Rapper Gucci Mane takes a verse on it, too. Because you want to do the impossible then you can’t give up.Black Beatles was released in September, 2016 by the duo Rae Sremmurd, made up of brothers Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi. Bitches like to party there.ĭon’t quit and keep your head up, because everyones going to tell you that you can’t do it, but thats why you should keep doing it. I love Mississippi too, its like crazy energy. I can’t even tell you which one I love the most. I love Miami and I love New York and I love California, I love Texas. Where has been your favourite city to perform? Lately we have been performing the Sremm Life EP, and they’ve been loving the music. You don’t have many tracks out yet, what other material do you perform? We just try to have a good time with the crowd. We just go up there and have a good time, we don’t stress too much about being on stage. How do you gear yourself up to do such an energetic live show? I really wanna see the islands, I wanna see the life there and the blue water. We love to experiment, we love to try new things. What kind of sound can we expect from the new EP?Įvery sound. Be real to people and be real to yourself. I don’t like the girls that just think too much of themselves and they think they’re better than everybody else, when everybody is really the same.īe loud. If it’s a hit, it’s a hit you can’t put a title or genre on it. We grew up listening to old school music and partied with a diverse crowd of people in Mississippi. Hip-hop comes naturally to us, but I wouldn’t say that our music should be labelled with any one particular genre. I didn’t really know what to do, I was just excited and happy. It was a big moment in my life, it was a really big moment. How did you react when Nicki Minaj and Pusha T got onboard the remix? What’s the most important thing that Mike has taught you so far? Every time we get in the lab, hits come out and it just happens naturally. It’s nothing but good vibes working with Mike WiLL and the entire Ear Drummer production team. What’s it like working in the studio with Mike? And then we played it for Mike WiLL and he liked it. Me and my brothers were down in Carolina, we met up with a guy named P Nasty who is also from Tupelo, and we did some music with him. Jimmy derived his name from him driving the old school Jimmy truck back in Mississippi. I got my name because I have “swae”, which is undeniable style. How did you get the names Slim Jimmy and Swae Lee? The brothers are now in the midst of releasing their debut release, Sremm Life, which has been speculated to drop before the end of the year. Their career took a huge turn when Nicki Minaj and Pusha T jumped on board to make a remix of their single “No Flex Zone”. The pair produced two hit singles, which have rounded up almost 70 million plays on YouTube alone. With Swae Lee and Slim Jimmy being only 19 and 22 years old, they’ve quickly grown to become Mike WiLL’s new prodigies, with the music producer signing them to his own label, EarDrummers Entertainment. Hailing from Elvis Presley’s hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi, the brothers spent time living on the street before their raw beats and energetic personas were recognised by music producer Mike WiLL Made-It. Swae Lee and Slim Jimmy are the dynamic duo behind the up-and-coming hip hop group, Rae Sremmurd.