Video Kiddos 2020 #3: Viper "F**k Earth Im Gon Wage An Interstella War"

Notoriously prolific cloud rapper Viper has been at it since the MySpace era. We first heard about him in an article where he was compared to Lil B and boasted an album-per-day release schedule throughout the entirely of a calendar year somewhere between 2008 and 2013. And as far as we can tell, these are not bullshit albums. Most of them are full length 14- or 16-track digital releases where the tracks actually contain something resembling an individual hook and/or beat or dance loop. His cadance is always mumbled and often indecipherable, but much like the BasedGod, his highlights are worth exploring.

At this point, it wouldn't be out of the question to elevate Viper's legacy among the unsung legends of both cloud rap and the best memes of the 2010s. So it was only a matter of time before he got commissioned to collaborate with dance artists and underground hiphop DJs.

Earlier this year, we started catching random Viper videos floating around on MTVZ, including a serious banger posted on March 15th titled "You'll Doin Well With Self-Isolation? I Bought All The Toilet Paper" in which Viper waxes on the state of the world while holding wads of cash that are possibly larger than his own hands.

It eventually became clear that many of his videos look very similar to each other -- produced very quickly, with lots of chromakey, lots of anime characters, frequent zooms. A video posted back in February also caught our attenntion, titled "F**k Earth Im Gon Wage an Interstella War" -- an 8-minute epic where he raps out-of-sync while standing directly in front of our very own planet's final moments of complete destruction.

The track is a collaboration with a drum and bass artist named Kettleonwater. As of today, the last day of 2020, it currently holds the #72 position on RYM's favorite tracks of 2020. The epic combination of giant d&b beats, focused/rushed outsider aesthetic, and explosive imagery arguably elevate this specific video to a moment he's been striving to achieve for the past 14+ years. It's probably his masterpiece, although once again, we don't know everything about this guy's output just yet.