RORSCHACH TEST
RXK Nephew on Whippets, WET Tanks, and the Trump Trial
RXK Nephew is the underground’s most unhinged rapper, and he’s back for seconds. The Rochester native known for memetic, conspiracy-adjacent freestyles on anything from chemtrails to crack sales to cryptocurrency just dropped ‘Till I’m Dead 2, a follow-up to last year’s fan-favorite album that might be even better than the first. Somewhere between Midwest-inspired rap, vaporwave, and jungle, it’s another chapter of Neph’s ongoing affair with dance music, which he’s celebrating on tour all June. Fresh off the wake up, we called him up while he ate pancakes and eggs to get his galaxy-brained take on some current affairs.
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UPSTATE
“The underdogs.”
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WHIPPETS
“I never tried them because they make people turn blue in the face. I heard they suck all the oxygen out your body.”
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IMMIGRATION
“I ain’t really even supposed to be in this country. I ain’t supposed to be in this world. I’m not even supposed to be leaving upstate New York. I live in California. This is Mexico. I go to Walmart, I’m the only Black person there. At this point, I’m the immigrant.”
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TERRORISM
“Even though I’m the American terrorist, I still fight for my people. They ain’t doing no terroristic acts around me because I will take the shooter down. I’m going to be the one that saves the day.”
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FAKE DESIGNER
“Go ahead, put that shit on. Let them people be fresh. They not rich. Niggas ain’t even pay taxes.”
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UGLY PEOPLE
“They said I was ugly, look at me now. Handsome as a bitch. I don’t discriminate. I fuck with the fat bitches and all that. I might love that big nose or them love handles.”
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LOVE SONGS
“I love love songs. I listen to all the love songs. Old songs, new songs—not Trey Songz though. That’s the only songs I don’t listen to. I be making love to them good tunes. Mary J. Blige, Share My World.“
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RIHANNA
“I’ve been fucking with Rihanna since she was singing with Ne-Yo and shit. ‘Hate That I Love You.’ Big shouts out to her for showing Big Neph some love. Never thought I’d see the day. Almost made a gangsta drop a tear.”
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LIPOSUCTION
“People should be themselves. You fake at this point. You’re not a real person. You’re not a real body. You don’t have a real mind. You better hit the gym. Shit, I’ll tell you how to lose weight. Smoke big backwoods, drink some Henny, do some molly and your appetite going to be gone.”
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RAP BEEF
“That shit fake. It’s like wrestling. Let’s just all have a good time.”
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DIDDY
“No comment.”
SCAMMERS
“Scammers scam their best friends, they scam their mom, their grandma, anybody that they can, including themselves. They always looking for the next dollar, and they’re going to spend it on some clothes.”
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YEEZY TANKS
“Kanye West is doing a social experiment for shock value to prove that people wear anything. He’s a great marketing genius. Niggas are showing their nipples through their shirts. It’s wicked.”
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ILLUMINATI
“A gang is just a cult, so the Illuminati is like a gang. I don’t go to mansion parties, I got my own Illuminati.”
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DJ AKADEMIKS
“Shouts out to him, man. He made it out of his fucking grandma basement talking on the computer doing blogs and shit. He made a way to feed himself, but he’s still a bitch.”
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AI
“I be seeing the DoorDash robots stopping at lights in L.A. Don’t get that robot DoorDash. Radiation in that food.”
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TRUMP TRIAL
“Trump is a funny nigga. He’s doing the same shit all them other folks be doing: clout-chasing. That nigga don’t give a fuck about nothing. He know what to do to get the people on his side.”
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OPIOID CRISIS
“I can’t say nothing about them people. I drink Hennessy every day. That’s how I connect with all the fiends, because I got that fiend in me.”
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SNOW BUNNIES
“You know I love the white girls. I love them all shapes and sizes. Except for the Karens, I don’t like the Karens. For all the snow bunnies, come through and let me get you pregnant. All different races in the family. I ended racism. They ain’t tell you?”
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TELFAR BAGS
“We got kids and we got bills. We ain’t looking at no bags. That’s for the ladies. I’m going to grab my bitch one.”
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MAGAZINES
“Niggas buy magazines in prison. I used to buy Straight Stuntin magazines. You know how New York is, everybody ain’t got cell phones in prison over there. Nothing but big booty bitches, rappers, what’s going on around the world. Keep niggas in tune.”
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FIGHTING DEMONS
“Demons be in your head every day telling you to do certain things and you just got to fight them off. Slitherman, baby. That’s the biggest demon right there.”