"Trademark USA" (stylized in all lowercase) is the first song on the album The Melodic Blue by Baby Keem.[1] This song was released on September 10, 2021 and debuted at number 64 on Rolling Stone’s Top 100 Songs Chart.
| "Trademark USA" | |
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| Single by Baby Keem | |
| from the album The Melodic Blue | |
| Released | September 10, 2021 |
| Recorded | 2019–2020 |
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| Length | 4:31 |
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Background
editIn 2019, Baby Keem uploaded the music video to his song Orange Soda to YouTube, and in one of the scenes there was a sentence reading “LLC The Dead” which is Trademark USA’s first known title. In 2020, Keem joined the 2020 XXL Freshman and performed the first verse of the song on the Freshman List. Months later, pgLang uploaded a video to their channel which featured a snippet of Keem rapping the second verse of Trademark USA.
In 2021, Keem went live on Instagram and previewed the song and while the song was playing, he reportedly said "Yo! This shit hard!" during the preview.
Charts
edit"Trademark USA" debuted at number 64 on Rolling Stone's Top 100 Songs Chart.
In popular culture
edit"Trademark USA" was one of the songs curated on Euphoria, an American television series on HBO.[2]
References
edit- ^ "The Winners of Our Seventh Annual Student Review Contest – Critical commentary by teenagers on "West Side Story," Crumbl Cookies, Baby Keem's new album and more". The New York Times. February 15, 2022. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
- ^ Coscarelli, Joe (January 31, 2022). "Why the 'Euphoria' Teens Listen to Sinead O'Connor, Tupac and Selena". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
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