YG - Handgun ft. A$AP Rocky

Name: YG - Handgun ft. A$AP Rocky
Uploaded: 2018-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released July 26–27, 2018, 'Handgun' served as the third single from YG's album Stay Dangerous (Def Jam, August 3, 2018), his follow-up to the critically acclaimed Still Brazy. The video's 'Kamp Drip' military-parody concept satirises both drill culture and hypebeast luxury fashion simultaneously, weaponising the word 'drip' — then at…

2018 · Late 2010s Trap-Era West Coast Hip-Hop (2018) · music video

2018Late 2010s Trap-Era West Coast Hip-Hop (2018)West Coast Gangsta Rap / Trap crossover — Compton Bloods street culture fused with A$AP Mob New York luxury streetwear aesthetics, 2016–2019

What this video is

Released July 26–27, 2018, 'Handgun' served as the third single from YG's album Stay Dangerous (Def Jam, August 3, 2018), his follow-up to the critically acclaimed Still Brazy. The video's 'Kamp Drip' military-parody concept satirises both drill culture and hypebeast luxury fashion simultaneously, weaponising the word 'drip' — then at peak cultural saturation — as a mock-military doctrine. The east-west…

Why it matters

Represents the 2018 apex of West Coast rap's post-Kendrick commercial resurgence, blending Compton street authenticity (YG's Blood affiliation, red bandana costuming) with the A$AP Mob's New York luxury-meets-street aesthetic. The 'Kamp Drip' concept video is a significant artifact of late-2010s…

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