In one key line, Charity admits Migos' " Rich Nigga Timeline doesn't hold a candle to Rae Sremmurd's debut." With "Black Beatles" on the charts and at the center of the mannequin challenge, no one's ever going to hear the name of Britain's best boy band and think Migos ever again. The people in the video stand still like mannequins while the camera jumps from one person to the next.
There is no dialog, but the song Black Beatles by Rae Sremmurd is typically playing in the background. The Mannequin Challenge is a viral video craze where people act out scenes without actually moving at all.
1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The song's premise seems to play in part a January 2015 Complex fire take, in which writer Justin Charity gives "10 Reasons Migos Are Better Than the Beatles," arguing their "origin story is the stuff of Marvel and Michael Bay" and their songs are "radical in content and spiritual in nature." The Mannequin Challenge is a viral video craze where people act out scenes without actually moving at all. But every viral clip needs its theme music, and the unofficial song of the Mannequin Challenge has become Rae Sremmurd's Black Beatles, which shot to No. Nearly all of the best Mannequin Challenge videos feature 'Black. Other than that, the lyrics are all stunt raps, with Swae Lee, Slim Jxmmi and Gucci Mane rapping about "cream seats in the Regal" and wearing "leather Gucci jackets like it's still the '80s." The Mannequin Challenge, which has taken the Internet by storm lately, has helped 'Black Beatles' move up the chart tremendously. The first version of the challenge was posted on Twitter. Rae Sremmurd’s song Black Beatles is the unofficial song of the viral video sensation known as the Mannequin Challenge, and thanks to the social media trend, the duo’s track off of. The hook also seems to describe that moment of pause right before the DJ pushes the button for an epic drop: That girl is a real crowd pleaser The inventors of the mannequin challenge pose as Black Beatles plays The mannequin challenge seemed to be everywhere come mid-November. More info on the challenge, taken from the Wiki: The Mannequin Challenge is a viral Internet video trend where people remain frozen in action like mannequins while a video is recorded, usually with the song 'Black Beatles' by Rae Sremmurd playing in the background. Rae Sremmurd's 'Black Beatles' took a while to get off the ground, but it's been. The song has an appropriately hazy, psychedelic vibe to it, which its producer Mike Will Made-It described as sounding like a "video game" in a recent Genius making-of video. The song is now both Rae Sremmurd and Gucci Mane's highest-charting single.