It’s hard to know how many views anything gets on Vine, but when ”Another 6 Sec Rap” was uploaded to Worldstar Hip Hop, it clocked 2 million views. The camera rotates around Semi nearly 180 degrees, first looking upward and eventually down as he turns his neck to face the camera, catching a basketball hoop in the background as a younger kid tosses a ball (and misses).
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Instead of rapping a cappella, or over a familiar hit song, like most Vine rap memes, Semi had his own beat, a loping bounce with a portamento synth riff sliding from one high note to an even higher note and back. More than that simple, catchy couplet, however, what made the video pop was how much seemed to fall into place in those 6 seconds. “I’m Semi, I stay automatic/ money add then multiply, I call it mathemathematics” is how it goes, except Vine’s airtight time limit doesn’t even permit him to finish the last word (you hear enough to get the idea). Late in October of last year, he became famous for two bars – really 1.5 bars – in a Vine entitled “another 6 sec rap.” A high school senior who goes by the name Semi, however, may hold the record for making the greatest impact with the shortest rap.
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Every rapper is one hit away, and sometimes it takes just one guest verse to make an MC a star.