Meanwhile, Billboard named 'Black Beatles' the best pop song of 2016. Pitchfork would later list 'Black Beatles' on their ranking of the 100 best songs of 2016 at number 10. Everybody's welcome at their club: young bloods, old geezers, weirdo girls with green hair, dealers, haters, Gucci Mane. The rap duo come together and rock their John Lennon lenses with a party-and-bullshit anthem so undeniable it hit Number One. Rolling Stone 's editor Rob Sheffield ranked 'Black Beatles' at number ten in his year-end list:

Change was needed, and change was delivered.' He also stated that while ''Black Beatles' is certainly not an explicitly political song, and the duo might understandably roll their eyes at any reading of their now-signature hit that suggests that it is,' he praised the duo for the group's tribute to the Beatles and their ability to subvert expectations of the status quo. Which isn't to say that the Chainsmokers and Halsey were stodgy and back-to-basics, either - ' Closer' was, in some ways, a blockbusting song in its own right-but after 12 weeks, any song becomes Establishment. Though both brothers Khalif 'Swae Lee' Brown and Aaquil 'Slim Jxmmi' Brown are now of legal voting age, as an entity Rae Sremmurd remains decidedly new-wave, part of Atlanta's bumper crop of young MCs who are less concerned with paying fealty to hip-hop history than they are with blowing out the genre's formalistic constraints to their own thrilling, individualistic ends. 'Black Beatles' features guest vocals from Atlanta-based rapper Gucci ManeĪndrew Unterberger of Billboard stated that 'Black Beatles' is 'a vital, quintessentially youthful song, which is extremely welcome in this oncoming era of social conservatism.

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