Cartoons (Cupcakke song)

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"Cartoons"
Cupcakke - Cartoons.png
Single by Cupcakke
from the album Ephorize
ReleasedNovember 10, 2017 (2017-11-10)
Genre Drill
Length2:31
Label Self-released
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Turreekk
Cupcakke singles chronology
"Exit"
(2017)		"Cartoons"
(2017)		"Quiz"
(2018)

Cartoons is the second single by American hip hop artist Cupcakke from her third studio album Ephorize . The song was released November 10, 2017 [1] [ non-primary source needed ] via TuneCore. [2] It received recognition from Cardi B, with the rapper posting a line from the song on her Twitter. [3] [ non-primary source needed ] [4]

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Background

CupcakKe announced a single would be coming on November 10, 2017 via her Twitter page. [2] [5] [ non-primary source needed ] "Cartoons" was then released as a digital download. [6] [7] " [8] [9]

Promotion

"Cartoons" received a music video on November 18, 2017. [10]

Critical reception

The Musical Hype wrote "'Cartoons'" opens mysteriously, with quirky, 'seedy-sounding' production that foreshadows the heat that's about to drop. Expectedly, cupcakKe enters turned up to the nth degree. The rhymes are quick, hard AF, and not nearly as childish or playful as the title might suggest. Even so, cupcakKe does deliver a cartoonish, catchy hook: If I see carats-carrots like Bugs Bunny / I’m Batman, robbin’-Robin for the money / Strip her, bare feet like the Flintstones / Make a Tom and Jerry whole way home / I’m a snack so I attract Scooby Doo’s / Give ‘em Smurf dick, that’s balls blue / I don’t look for niggas so fuck Waldo / Bitch, I’m cocky like Johnny Bravo." [11] Andrew Matson from Mass Appeal commented, "Lyrically, 'Cartoons' is a flex-a-thon, with a chorus name-checking all kinds of cartoon characters CupcakKe makes the formal concept sound easy [...] Rhymes seem to come naturally to her, whether freeform or based on a theme." [4] "Her flow is incredible as she raps over a unique beat filled with all sorts of metallic percussion. Her lyrical capabilities are as great as ever as she combines her sex positivity with some braggadocios bars" wrote The Next Wave Chicago. [12] XXL calls it "a more traditional, hammering drill track that finds her firing off a barrage of flamboyant, quick-witted flexes in an impressive display of breath control." [13]

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References

  1. ↑ MonHOE, Marilyn (November 9, 2017). "New single "Cartoons" now available for purchase!!!". CupcakKe Rapper. Archived from the original on December 19, 2017. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "New Music Friday: November 10, 2017 – TuneCore". TuneCore. November 10, 2017. Archived from the original on January 18, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  3. ↑ "@iamcardib tweets lyrics from cupcakKe - Cartoons". Cardi B. November 20, 2017. Archived from the original on April 6, 2021. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Baseball Bats and Bentleys in CupcakKe's "Cartoons" Video". Mass Appeal. November 21, 2017. Archived from the original on January 18, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ MonHOE, Marilyn (November 6, 2017). "11/10/17pic.twitter.com/6ikP3KCmdU". @CupcakKe_rapper. Archived from the original on November 9, 2020. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
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