It's by far some of Starlito and Trip’s best writing, a necessary single for the times with a visual that captures all the sobering details. “Good Cop, Bad Cop” captures police brutality with duality―all sides of the story are delivered, from the cop to the shot―but just like “Caesar and Brutus,” there’s a slight twist. The song's success gave them room to further explore storytelling and pushed their pens further, which is most noticeable on the first single off Step Brothers THREE, “Good Cop, Bad Cop.” The narrative approach is revisited, honing in the back-and-forth storytelling between the two, but this time the story is told from the third-person point of view, giving it a more cinematic quality. For the most part, once we put it together and got it out, the reaction was organic,” Don told me over the phone while in Austin, Texas for SXSW. “We knew it was the kind of record that had never been done before, told in that kind of narrative style. In honor of the success of “Caesar and Brutus,” the duo returned four years later with a new album, a body of work that is equally impressive. The single wasn’t a trendy trap record, it didn’t have the appeal radio demanded, but there was an immense fanfare surrounding the song and video that made it the biggest Step Brothers release to date (it currently sits at over five million views on YouTube). “Caesar and Brutus” only further solidified how well the two complimented each other by crafting a storytelling single where the two narrated from a first-person perspective of the brewing feud between two drug dealers who were once friends but were torn apart due to paranoia, mistrust and love―a story that modernizes Shakespeare's tragic themes under modern guise. Ironic how two strangers who have grown into brothers are also connected to a tragedy that ends in one friend slaying another.įour years ago, “Caesar and Brutus” was released as the first single for Step Brothers Two. It marked the return of Lito and Trip, who had originally joined forces under the Step Brothers umbrella for a well-received mixtape in 2011. The two Tennessee titans had an uncanny chemistry, like long-lost brothers who reconnected after years of separation. March 15 is the day of Caesar’s demise, better known as The Ides Of March, but this year the day famous for deceit and backstabbing also brought the release of Step Brothers THREE―the third installment of Starlito and Don Trip’s acclaimed collaborative series.
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