In case you haven't been on YouTube, um, ever, Matty B is the new hot pint-sized music star with a modicum of musical talent and big ol' dreamboat eyes who is making the tween girls scream.
The little rapper has covered Ke$ha, Willow Smith, and Katy Perry, and he's got a whole slew of his "originals," marked in a separate section of his video site (in case you couldn't figure out a 7-year-old wrote them).
Oh yeah, that's the part we forgot to mention. Matty B is 7 years old.
With that in mind, allow us to take a moment to say to Matty B what someone should have said to Justin Bieber about nine years ago ... save your voice, kid!
Honey, we're not hatin'. You're not terrible. In case you haven't seen him, take a look:
He's got his hat turned "backwardz" ... because he's 7.
Matty B, you didn't come up with this stuff any more than Willow Smith has manufactured her whole quirky dressing, hair whipping reputation. Which puts the rest of us in a rather sticky position.
We don't want to pick on a 7-year-old. But we feel much like we do about the smarmy third grader who waltzes into school with a big smile and a diorama that's a perfect recreation of the First Thanksgiving, right down to the mini pieces of maize. Sure, the assignment was completed, but who should get the credit?
See the conundrum?
You've put us in an impossible position. If we don't like you, we're a bunch of jerks for being mean to a kid. But if we like you, well, we are really loving on some adult who has manufactured your "stardom."
If you wait a few years -- like 10? -- we could meet you the old-fashioned way: you singing your songs, us determining whether they're any good. We could tell you if you suck, and we wouldn't feel like big buttheads who just took a kid's lunch money.
Right now you're just making us feel like we're the big adults who need to protect you ... and no one wants to feel old and listen to rap at the same time. Next thing you know, we'll be screaming that someone needs to turn down that "c-rap."
Don't make us bust out the "classics" channel to listen to the songs produced when we were 15. There's only so much our egos can take.
Could you use a child star break?
Image via MattyBRaps
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Wow, so because these are children they can't think for themselves? I know I'm a little late but I'm really disappointed to see a writeup like this from CM. My kids are really young but I have 7 nieces and nephews and each one of them is unique in their own way. One of my nephews CHOSE to get a mohawk when he was 4, it was what he wanted, and his parents ended up letting him get it. In one of Matty B's songs I remember him saying that he has wanted to rap since he was 5. And as far as Willow Smith, when the family was on Oprah, I recall Jada saying that Willow came to her and told her that she wanted to get her hair done as she has it now, and though she was skeptical, Jada allowed her to have it done. Why? So that her daughter could express the individuality that she wanted to. People do NOT give children the credit that they deserve. Just because they are kids doesn't mean that they don't have the mindset to do what they want. My kids are only 2 and 1 but if they don't want to do something, they aren't going to do it, no matter how hard my husband and I push them. This article is very biased CM, very.
I heard the clip on a morning radio show....didn't care for it, but then, the kid's 7....so what do you expect. He's got a lot of growing and learning to do and, while rap isn't my "thing"...if this kid keeps practicing, bet he just gets better...by the time he's 18, he could be AWESOME.
My kid can't play a guitar yet, but practice will help that. Would you tell a child who is learning to play piano, or any other instrument, that they suck and should give it up?
So, only adults should put videos of them singing/rapping?