Meet Dancody: The Trust Fund Meme Rapper with a Surprisingly Nice Singing Voice
Posted by By FlyingJoint at 17 December, at 20 : 29 PM Print
Dancody is quite the anomaly on the ears. The dude mostly seems to make cheesy and funny rap music, but his flows are so cold and his singing ability is so nice that his talent transcends the pre-conceived notion about meme rappers.
Some of his lyrics will straight up piss people off. On Pharmabro, a song one can only assume was named after disgraced pharmaceutical magnate Martin Shkreli, he raps, “chef cooking up endangered seal, letters come with Presidential seals, new yacht got a rugby field, whole squad taking drugs for meals” damn, that was hard. But also, don’t tell PETA. Later on the same track, he raps “Martha’s Vineyard in the summertime, stealing dogs for reward money, and I never have to play it cool, if you own a house, you should own a pool.” Wow. Call your HOA and tell them that it is now required by law for them to build you a pool. But also, call back PETA and tell them about those missing dogs in Cape Cod. Seriously though, if you love light-hearted comical rap music with bars that hit hard as hell over beats you would hear on the radio, you do not want to pass on Dancody.
The song Patagonia starts by setting the scene of life at an elite boarding school: “All I ever wanted was the clout. We were trappin’ out of prep school, taking meals to the boarding house. Caviar spilling on the sofa, clean the stains with some club soda, boat house out in Sarasota, ISB for IB diplomas.” *Casually mentions they’re better than you in every way possible* no seriously. Did some digging and unless Dancody was trappin’ outta the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, it’s safe to say he was a student at the International School of Brussels, since they do indeed offer the International Baccalaureate diploma?? Which allows you entry into elite universities across the globe as easily as if they were DeVry??? Or something????
The sad boi rap track Netflix & Xans might be Dancody’s most introspective yet. If you don’t have soooooo many questions after hearing Netflix & Xans, you must be a close personal friend of the artist. On the first verse, Dancody raps “fuck it I know they’ll be mad, fuck it I know they gone spazz, ain’t no bad hoes in this story ain’t none of that we each had 10 grams of coke in our ass. That was for personal use they said Josh just try one line and I said nah I’m good but do you, did three more runs fore I went back to school, we had enough blow to fill up a pool or at least a jacuzz” wait. WHAT? Back up a second. You and your friends did WHAT? Smuggled coke into the country as kids so that you could snort it? From what we can deduce, Joshua Eron Finnbar Marston-Smith is credited on all Dancody songs as a songwriter, so the “Josh” mentioned in the lyrics must be him. Other than that, if somebody knows a childhood friend of Dancody’s, please reach out. The statute of limitations should be up and we need answers.
Dancody’s other songs include Please Don’t Die and The Upper East, duets with other artists where he showcases his singing talents. On Please Don’t Die, he transforms himself into an autocrooner, and he makes love to the autotune better than most. The Upper East can best be described as Bedroom Indie Pop with R&B undertones. There’s no autotune on this one, and it’s clear he knows how to control his voice.
Beyond the lyrics, Dancody is a fascinating case study. He seems to be a rebellious young artist from a well-to-do family who would have chosen for him to take on a more traditional career, but instead he is making a living off of discussing family secrets while simultaneously exalting the positives of lifestyle they have afforded him through song. Nevertheless, with the live music industry starting back up again and Dancody on track to bless us with a body of work imbued with such pompousness mixed with introspective sorrow that it’ll undoubtedly carry us through the remainder of the pandemic as if we had been post-breakup island hopping in Greece the entire time, things are looking good.
Let us all appreciate this artistically well-rounded, well-traveled, seal meat-consuming, Shkreli-idolizing scion by catching up on his tunes below. Courtesy of Spotify:
