The rapper behind the viral earworm "Gucci Gucci" proves a bratty, insult-slinging MC can turn into a trash-pop princess, given a jittery enough dance beat and a little de-snarking. There's a familiar storyline – lifting stepdad's plastic, doing doughnuts in the parking lot – but the raft of earnest la-la-las speaks to her liberation.

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“Too Close”

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'"