Where Are Rap's One Hit Wonders Today? 

tried to go w some lesser talked ab one hit wonders, who r ur favs?

Silento's career began and ended with a hit

I heard the song astronaut in the ocean in my nightmares everyday for about a month😭

He whipped and nae naed himself to jail

One hit wonders wearing 6 figures worth of jewelry is fuckin hilarious to me 🤣🤦‍♂️

Becoming a one hit wonder must suck for those artists wanting music to be a life long career but I think most people would like to be one hit wonders instead of no hit wonders. Depending on how well that one song pops off it could literally set your entire life up financially. If you play your cards smart that is.

I'm glad you included Ylvis (The Fox) and told the real story behind that song. So many people still believe that 1) they were trying to become singers and 2) after The Fox, they became completely irrelevant. When that's not true at all. It's the same with PSY and Gangnam Style. Both songs were meant to be "inside jokes" in their respective countries/fanbases, but it blew up worldwide thanks to the internet. PSY also still has a great career in Korea.

Where's Gotye, he's literally somebody that we used to know

The Silento story always hits me the hardest. When I was still in high school, I had wondered what happened to him and saw an interview where he's talking about how he missed out on his youth -- i think a clip of it plays in this video -- he said that he was always a popular guy in high school, and he blew up at the mere age of 17. He missed homecoming, prom, everything because he was touring the world. He looks so sad in the interview. Compared to Silento's appearance on The Rap Game while he was still attending Redan High School (a small school in Atlanta of only 900 kids, easy for him to become popular), he tries to play off being a rapper while in high school as easy AF. In the aforementioned interview, the interviewer asks if he still goes to prom, and Silento shrugs and says that sometimes he'll take out a few girls and pull up to a high school prom. Mind you, he was like 20 in that interview. Obviously there's a negative social stigma of doing high school things once you've graduated, but this was on a whole new level of depressing. It seems so APPARENT that Silento was trying to capture his golden years that slipped right out of his hands

trinidad james is actually a really cool person.. thats awesome how honest he is. i think he could've definitely had more protentional and if he keeps pursuing it who knows

Trinidad cool af he gave me my 1st break doing cover art for music. it featured Travis Scott who I wasn’t aware of at the time 😅

It's such a shame to see some one hit wonders who looked like they could've had a more popular career 😭 btw I love your vids keep up the great work!!!

The way you say, " my name Is Matty'Balls' " so confidently bro😅😂

one thing that should be said about trinidad james is how he’s been working as a songwriter and doing artist development with people like sexyy red & flo milli

A handful of days out the year I just walk around saying DONT BEELEMEE JUST WATCH.. so his one hit was impactful in my own universe

Man, the Silento case is so sad. He was too young and impressionable for the industry and now his life is affectively over.

thank you mister ballz

I was Trinidad James' DJ in 2013. I did his first radio interview & first 2 shows in Florida before he got signed to Def Jam. Very cool dude. Humble. Always did good business. The NY radio situation was definitely a detriment to his career. It was one of the reasons he moved to LA. He told the truth about Atlanta artists "running NY radio" it was the so-called RIGHT MESSAGE but from the WRONG MESSENGER. NY radio/labels got in their feelings. "Females Welcomed" was a HIT. Def Jam purposely fumbled it and didn't promote it claiming they didn't know how to which was bs. Nothing but respect for him 🫡

I think silento taking over 2 years to drop something contributed to why he fell off so fast

Master Ballz at it again!! Thank you homie!! ❤ Man the Favorite one out of this list is Trinidad James! He actually has some decent songs out now, I can fuck with his newest album, straight funkadelic man!!

Have a friend I met through Xbox years ago that lives in Myrtle Beach, she caught silento in public and got a photo and we geeked out about it for hours lol Few months later..arrested for MURDER! Was kinda wild lol

loved ur bit on ylvis i feel like no one really researches them properly but yours was very well researched yet short and sweet -signed an ylvis fan haha

You’re the RU-vidr I always watch when I eat dinner which is only reserved for the best vids

Ylvis was basically the Swedish version of the Lonely Island (Andy Samberg). The Lonely Island put out song parodies on SNL in the 2000's (Lazy Sunday, D%$# in a Box, I Just Had Sex, I'm On a Boat) and even had a Spinal Tap-type parody movie. So What Does the Fox Say was a joke song that blew up.

another banger video mister ballz 🙏

Ylvis arent artists, they are comedians. Feels wrong to put them in here considering they troll 24/7 on national norwegian tv

Just found this page now. You've got some amazing content and you've gained a new subscriber 🙏🏾👑

Matty back with another banger !!!

Glad you covered Trinidad. Dudes real cool and still out here just making the things he wants to make.

All gold everything came out when I was a freshman in high school, that song was huge , you couldn’t walk down the hallways without someone playing it or rapping it , crazy that he never capitalized off that success

Great vids man I always like watchin your fall off vids!👍🏽

i been binging your channel for a week now😂

Underrated channel 💯

DefJam dropped the ball with Trinidad James, not that he was a star but he had another hit with called Females Welcome. That’s hit was a banger

Silento jail photo is crazy 😂

i enjoy your content, i dont know why, i dont even listen to the music you talk about. but keep it up man.

It’s so funny, I saw Masked Wolf live long after Astronaut in the Ocean was popular, and he’s surprisingly really good live! Also he’s been pushing himself outside his comfort zone with his rock collabs, it’s really interesting!

Trinidad James still be dropping fire music 🔥 he got black balled

Still can’t believe pop smoke dead

you probably won’t see this but props for having that kids poster in the back 🫡 never seen someone openly be a fan of it

I love Mattyballz so much ❤😅

hell yeah mattyballz vid for my bday 🙏🏼

All the arm chair critics calling people fake street while bumping fake come ups and fake struggles is beyond ironic imo 🤣

great video, subd!

can’t believe how much you are blowing up bro. knew it would happen quick your videos are made very very well. you are good at not making the videos completely crazyyy biased. a lot of channels that make similar content get really biased and it just throws me off

I remember when I was 5 and in kindergarten and they played watch me SO many times and I still hear it 😭

"Parting ways" 😂

Trinidad still writes for a lot of people and bruno mars sampled him so he's good

Literally only need one song and you could be set for life. Then you get people like Silento who hit that dream, then decides to throw it away in a bout of grumpiness

subscribed love your video

I still love and listen to Masked Wolf, I hope it works out for him.

Every time I see silento I get PTSD...

That's funny that The Fox is on this list. I was just thinking about it a couple of days ago. Might have been yesterday. I saw a video on RU-vid Shorts of a baby fox that was crying. And I thought to myself, "Oh, that's what the Fox says" 😂😂

Banger video

i was 15 when ‘watch me’ came out and grew up 20 minutes from stone mountain and had no idea silento was from georgia, let alone stone mountain

Just a lil thick was on my repeat in high school

If I ever hear Astronaut in the Ocean or Watch Me ever again I'm going to scream.

the death note music at 15:50 was amazing lol

YLVIS for the win. Awesome name, awesome song. Every time my friends' kids have a party we throw Fox on, they love it!

Trinidad is extremely underrated. Female$ Welcomed shoulda been his second hit fr

I knew one of silento cousin and the way she’d speak about him it added more shock that he’d actually commit murder.

Ayo and teo not being here is criminal

I only know about Astronaut in the Ocean because of Siivagunner using it in their Piraka Playground rip.

bro atronaut in the ocean was every where and i could not for the life of me escape it when it was a trend. Even hearing it now gives me ptsd LOL

I was not expecting to see hivemind in a mattyballz video

this is very insane

Watch Me took a dark turn jesus, I was not expecting that.

That fox song is goong to be in my head for a week now 😂

Just here to say that i love the plauge blvd cap

Music culture is so isolated from each other these days that I've never heard a single one of these songs.

Bars behind bars is insane ☠️☠️

Thanks for the timestamps so I could skip that 2nd dude completely

I'm glad i don't have tiktok but the astronaut in the ocean made me infuriated the fact that people on roblox played it 24/7 i got annoyed Real quick

I didnt even know the name of the song thanks much. Astronaut in the Ocean

damn 1 minute ago is wild

I had Astronaut In The Ocean stuck in my head for all of 2021, but I realized I am a fan of it when I got sad whenever I DIDN'T hear it in a meme

never heard of silento until now. never heard the song.

I feel like you can spot a flame out by that French Montana feature on a debut album. I saw that and thought "he's not long for this career!"

Ran into trinidad james at the airport in LA. We was on the same flight from Miami. Both was sitting on the exit Row.

Trinidad seem to do very well for himself for a 1 hit wonder. I watch quite a few of his complex sneaker show and gotta say he seems like a cool dude, good for him

Thanks for the hookup, I didnt know Trinidad had a joint with Lil Dicky!!! Had to check it out!

Shi lemme be a one hit wonder 😂 I’m sure eveyone in the comment would love too as well

Trinidad was featured on one of the best songs of that time with August Alsina “I love it”

Technical question: why do you include the tags in the summary without hashtags? Thanks 🙏

I remember silento was supposed to play at my high school. I don’t know if it got canceled or he ever did because absolutely no one went to it.

I wasn’t expecting silenceo voice to bell sound that way

Ya know, love em or hate em, they made an impact no matter how brief. Some folks never have anything to remember

There was a point I'd stop talking to ppl for a day if they sent me stuff with "astronaut in the ocean" since I told them bout how tiring it was hearing it everywhere

Silento has that song “dessert” which is quite popoular

I feel like the ''mama dont worry u raised a gangsta '' is a perfect example

I had never even heard of Silento before this video, despite hearing the damn song everywhere

Trinidad James has a hand in many female rappers today. 567 Agency has done work for Flo Milli, Tay money, Latto, sexyy red…etc

"Yall already know who it is" We never heard of you before, and since

Trinidad James is successful in own right. He'll be fine.

damn feels weird being this early

Female's welcomes by Trinidad james is a certified banger , he was just ahead of the game when he came out

OMG WHEN I WAS 5 IN 2015 THAT FOX SONG WAS SO FIRE THEY USED TO PLAY IT AT MY KINDERGARTEN DANCE

Trinidad James was the #1 host of FSR until last year when it ended, he has his own shoe with Saucony, he’s doing well. His music isn’t the focus of his career, he is a huge person in the sneaker/fashion community.

Silento is doing life. He's never getting out.

I wouldn’t go as far to say, What does the fox say is a generational hit. And one that everybody loved. When it came out the only reason I heard it was my niece and nephew playing it on repeat as toddlers. And I couldn’t stand that song and most people I know hated it.