Hitting play on “freddy’s dead,” the quick-lipped tribute to the hilariously scary A Nightmare on Elm Street films, we resume right where mc chris left off on his last album mc chris foreverrr. With his signature child-like, nasally delivery, the Midwestern rapper jumps in over a thumping synth line and chops it up about the beloved horror films. Though the main narrative of this track is absurd, the best moments are his pop culturally imbued asides: “Freddy was a cutter, kinda like Kylo.” As with any of his songs, you are rewarded if you pay super close attention to every rhyme he spits.
The single will appear on mc chris’s new Freddy Krueger-themed album mc chris is Dreaming, which drops on September 30. In anticipation of the record, we emailed with mc chris about his new project and asked him if he would ever consider writing a rap tribute to Harambe.