
Come Thou Font (Forrest Frank)
Forrest Frank's 'Come Thou Font,' from his 2023 lo-fi and hip-hop hymn record New Hymns, is the pun in the title and a genuine attempt to hand a 1758 text to a listener with headphones on.
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Forrest Frank's 'Come Thou Font,' from his 2023 lo-fi and hip-hop hymn record New Hymns, is the pun in the title and a genuine attempt to hand a 1758 text to a listener with headphones on.
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Nas built an entire hit single's beat around a loop of 'Fur Elise' and aimed the finished record at children -- a genuinely strange move for one of hip-hop's most acclaimed lyricists that worked anyway.
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Drake and Don Toliver's 'Encore'-week entry builds its hook directly out of Ella Langley's 'Choosin' Texas' melody, debuts at No. 5 on streaming muscle and a borrowed earworm, and never does much with either.
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Steven Malcolm's one-word answer to a lifetime of feeling unworthy, with KB and for KING + COUNTRY, is a 2025 Christian hip-hop single built around a testimony rather than a boast -- and a 2026 Dove nominee.
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