When The World Went Crazy

Beeda Weeda “Baserock Babies”

DJ Fresh’s track for “Baserock Babies” is a marvel of retro-’80s electro-funk that somehow sounds fresh and modern despite its clear roots in the aesthetic of another era. Beeda Weeda embraces the period vibe by making the song about kids born into the ’80s crack epidemic. He’s setting the scene for a flashback, but also taking back the sound that defined the culture he was born into, making himself the conclusion to a full-circle narrative. You can kinda take this as being something of a happy ending for that cycle — it’s not exactly triumphant in tone, but it’s certainly a song that expresses a certain amount of pride in dubious beginnings, and some kind of relief that things got a little bit better rather than a whole lot worse.

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