Rum Brucctree Drops 'Carriageway Steels': A Hypnotic Journey Through Pitch, Persona, and Urban Mythology
The song hits with fat, thumping drums, third-person rap personas, and surreal imagery - from urban streets to blood-drawn milkshakes - blurring pitch, tempo, and reality.
Carriageway Steels is Rum Brucctree’s new rap single.
The song alternates between elements that have differing sound pitches. A melodic and speechlike chorus starts the song. The pitch here is highly audible. This is before the beat proper kicks. The beat is mostly this heavy and dry drum. A fat, thumping beat, if you will.
The chorus goes: no matter where the place is, it’s one woman with many faces. It’s a catchy chorus if you listen to it a couple of times. This is made possible by the ‘place is’-‘faces’ rhyme pair. It’s a world, the chorus tells us, that has shifted from the time of carriageways to the now time of the fast internet. Modern carriageways were mostly an 18th and 19th century phenomenon.
It doesn’t matter where in the world, we also hear, but if there’s no familial grounding, then one’s after chases, going after the fleeting.
Then kicks in the first verse along, the beat proper forming as well. The pitch is punishingly low on this element. One has to put their ear to the speaker to pick up the words.
It’s an interesting verse. Rum introduces himself in the third-person through one of his aliases.
On runs Stepa.
He raps that he’s harnessing in song the creator.
The song references pleasure-seeking and the duties of straight men, with complications, Rum raps, leading to the things lacking. Resulting in men (or bros) thinking about making the future of their partners simpler.
There’s also references of lamentations and talk of a black nigga.
The chorus returns again, and soon afterwards makes way for another verse. As this verse starts, the drums go in quick progression.
Rum tells the listener to walk with him. There’s talk of blood of blood drawn like milkshakes – this references some horror flicks.
The lyrics then disappear, leaving the drum beat to play solo, with zoom-zoom whispering sounds accompanying the drums.