Bankrol Hayden, Brothers | Rap BNGRZ 🔥

In the 16^th edition of Rap BNGRZ 🔥 (2023), we break down the banger status of “Brothers,” performed by Bankrol Hayden featuring Luh Kel. 

Bring on the braggadocio, drip, sex, and kicka$$ery, WOO! You’ve entered Rap BNGRZ 🔥 territory! On Rap BNGRZ 🔥 (bangers being the proper spelling), the premise is simple. Rap BNGRZ provides background info and commentary on cocky, confident, ferocious hip-hop/rap songs. The bangers can be brand-spanking-new or certified classics. In the 16^th edition of Rap BNGRZ 🔥 (2023), we break down the banger status of 🎵 “Brothers” performed by 🎙 Bankrol Hayden featuring 🎙 Luh Kel.

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“It’s love for my brothers, no love for these bitches / They say they gon’ change, but I ain’t gon’ listen.”  As the saying goes, bros before hoes. 🎙 Bankrol Hayden doesn’t seem to trust bitches whatsoever on “Brothers” (💿 Pain Is Temporary, 2020), crying foul that “She fucked with my friend, she had to admit it / My mind has been trippin’, they burning these bridges.” I can see why Hayden is perturbed. In the first verse, he wants his big bro free – someone he clearly loves and can trust – which is on brand with love for my brothers as opposed to, well, the Bees 🐝 – buzzzzz! To be fair, in the second verse, her brother is a bitch too, per Hayden: “Your brother, he a bitch, and my brothers, we all that.”  

Featured guest 🎙 Luh Kel brings more melody to the mix, and less – wait for it – bitching 😜. Well… he doesn’t refer to anybody as the b-word.  Still, Luh Kel admits, “Girl, you gave me your love, now I’m fiending / Got my heart broke, but you pick up the pieces.” Read the lyrics or listen, and it feels as if Kel is praising her and even enamored.  Still, that would totally contradict the song’s messaging, contrasting Hayden’s anti-bi-otch rant.  The most accurate takeaway seems to be the fact Luh Kel is trapped by her toxicity, and of course, her body/sex.  Regardless, in two minutes and change, Bankrol Hayden + Luh Kell make magic, support each other as brothers, and have their respective issues with women.  After all, just to reiterate on this banger, “My mind has been trippin’, they burning these bridges.”

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🎙 Bankrol Hayden • 💿 Pain Is Temporary • 🏷 Atlantic • 📅 2020 

Bankrol Hayden, “Brothers”: Rap BNGRZ 🔥 No. 16 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner/The Musical Hype; Atlantic; cottonbro studio via Pexels]