Cut Me Off by Cam Meekins

This week I've chosen to write about a fairly new song by Cam Meekins called Cut Me Off. This song is a remix of an older song by Gotye called Somebody That I Used To Know. This track includes a sped up version of The Gotye song for the chorus and then Cam rapping in between. This song includes moderate to severe explicitness, including multiple swear words and some drug reference. However, it is still a very clever and catchy song, and one of my favorites.

I took a screenshot of the youtube video of Cut Me Off (It's a pretty funny, but random, video). 

Cam Meekins is a (somewhat underground) nineteen year old rapper from Newton, Massachusetts. Cam has recently "Graduated From Frat Rap" says the Boston Globe. In an interview with them, Cam says that he started rapping about four years ago, when he was fifteen. He says that he would get funny looks on stage, being a white rapper, and being a young, skinny kid. However, after they heard him rap, their thoughts about him changed. Cam also said that when he was first getting into rap, he wanted to be like Drake, or Kanye West and was highly influenced by them. However, Cam's music is a little bit more mellow than most Drake or Kanye songs. I, personally, like Cam's music much more, the mellow rap is easier to listen to and tells a better story. I think it's really cool hearing about his life through his music, and telling it in an easy to listen to way.

This picture is from a great website called College-of-Music. 

Cam first started releasing his music to Youtube and Spotify, though most were just mix tapes or singles (Cut Me Off is a single).  However, in 2013 he dropped his first album called Lamp City. Lamp City has many good songs, including some of my favorites, some from this album will most likely make appearances in future songs of the week... Anyway, thanks for checking out my first post, hope you enjoyed. If you have any feedback, recommendations/requests, or other comments, just hit me up and I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible. Also hit me up with a follow if you like my page.

- Eli Levine 

I acquired this image from a website called Warner Music.