You've never heard "The Star-Spangled Banner" like this before.
Yesterday, Noisey published a list titled "White People, Please Think Long and Hard Before Covering Beyonce's 'Formation' or Rihanna's 'Work.'" Beyonce's "Formation" is about her being proud to be a black Southern female. Rihanna's "Work" recalls the dancehall music of her native Barbados. Yet Noisey contributing editor Craig Jenkins found a dozen or so covers where white people tried to mimick Rihanna's tipsy patois after complaining that they couldn't understand what she was saying, and didn't think twice about singing Beyonce's lyrics about having a Negro nose with Jackson 5 nostrils.
Fortunately, Twitter users @NathanZed and @ILLCapitano94 responded with #TrapCover. These are trap rap-inspired takes on songs that are anything but, as inspired by "the acoustic covers of Beyonce's 'Formation'." @NathanZed tackled "Hey Jude" by the Beatles, then "The Star-Spangled Banner." @ILLCapitano94 did Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles." Soon, people reinterpreted Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the style of Future, Nickelback's "Photograph" like OG Maco's "You Guessed It" and Coldplay's "Yellow" if it was Gucci Mane's "Lemonade."
This role reversal had #TrapCover tweeted over 31,000 times last night. Watch some of the most inspired parodies below.
Couldn't sleep til I made a #TrapCover of The Star Spangled Banner #BHM pic.twitter.com/JI5uynMx3g
— Nathan Zed (@NathanZed) February 26, 2016
okay guys. my first cover ever :) "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton #TrapCover pic.twitter.com/ql6yfNrboE
— Captain Kirk (@ILLCapitano94) February 26, 2016
My #TrapCover of " You Belong With Me " By Taylor Swift pic.twitter.com/7pkYaG196k
— Demetrius Harmon (@meechonmars) February 26, 2016
#trapcover Yellow by Coldplay 😂😂😂 (idk if @NathanZed was jokin or nah but I really did it) PS twitter cut my version pic.twitter.com/cecJko7w8x
— Pablo (@Yo_Its_Tree) February 26, 2016
Here's my #TrapCover of Bohemian Rapsody by Queen. Like and subscribe fore more covers (IB: @ILLCapitano94) pic.twitter.com/PJwGYlTPEr
— 2006 Rex (@RexTestarossa) February 26, 2016
