Eminem has used Psycho elements before but a recent band called Slowthai (which I first encountered at this year's Coachella, hence the vid below) has a rap song called 'Psycho' built atop a loop of violins shrieking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7icN1eQk5w
I liked how Eminem built (evidently) a whole ALBUM around an old "Alfred Hitchcock LP record" and re-staged Alf's cover pose(aiming a gun at his head?)
Hitchcock remains "accessible for sampling" today in general, but in PARTICULAR...Psycho does. We all know why.
What an awful song. 🤣 2/10. And that's '2' rather than '0' only because of the violin loop.
But dude, you can't even dance to that as the shot of the audience clearly shows. Major fail. Now I've seen everything.
What an awful song... Major fail. Now I've seen everything.Haw haw... It's not my cup of tea either - I do find it hard to stick out the song to the end, and certainly it's got no Psycho-content that I could discern beyond the shrieking strings loop that you grasp in the first 5s. Still, 'youths searching for and finding new ways to sound, dark, pessimistic/nihilistic, and aggressive and chaotic' has been part of pop culture since at least the '60s, and I was actually glad to find some aggressive music *period* at Coachella, even if Slowthai isn't really my thing (maybe not the thing of anyone over 25). share
Okay, I had to step back and ponder this one for a few moments. Yes, there is something admirable and courageous here.
I'm a big fan of the avant-garde orchestral composer George Crumb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sffh9spQopA
The progressive nihilism could be sublime.
It's a good idea. But I still think it needs work with some better material. The "Psycho" bit just comes off as cheesy.
Psycho's connection with Rap goes back at least to The Beastie Boys' sample-packed 1989 album called 'Paul's Boutique'. The track 'Egg Man' begins by sampling Super Fly then brings in Psycho's murder strings and ends with a huge wodge of Jaws audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x5NCDYB1Lc
Shortly after Paul's Boutique a licensing regime governing sampling was introduced which made profligate sampling a la Paul's Boutique prohibitively expensive. But we'll always have P's B, the first few Public Enemy albums and a bunch from others from the Wild West days of sampling.