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BlueBucksClan: “Coronavirus” There’s no global catastrophe that goes unnoticed in rap—see Gucci Mane’s Bird Flu mixtape series, or Dipset’s obsession with the Taliban after 9/11—so it was only a matter of time before we got the deluge of coronavirus references.
In fact, rap moves so fast now that we’re already days away from the virus-inspired tracks either going too far or seeming like a lazy cheat code to inflate views.
But “Coronavirus,” from L.A.’s BlueBlucksClan, whose new Clan Virus EP features the duo wearing surgical masks on the cover,