If Yuno Miles has no fans, then I am dead.
Words by Oliver Gerharz
Kanye West recently released an AI-powered (slop) music video for a remix of his song “BOMB.” In addition to the verses from his daughters and longtime collaborator Ty Dollar $ign, the remix adds Yuno Miles, who brings this verse to the table:
Put some hot sauce on my Doritos, baby
Put some hot sauce on my Cheetos, baby
Why my feet smell like Fritos, baby?
Do you want some Tacos, baby?
That's obviously beautiful, but just who is this enigmatic figure? To figure that out, I think it’s important to take it all the way back to the beginning.
The oldest video currently available on Yuno Miles Ultra, Miles’ YouTube channel, is “pokemon.” The song features classic Yuno lyricism about Ash Ketchum, the Magic School Bus, and the Grinch. The beat, a remix of the Futurama theme song, is a little weak when compared to the production on Miles’ later work featuring beats remixing the same song. The decision to let the beat speak for itself for the last 60% of the track is certainly compelling.
If you’ve listened to “pokemon” or anything else from Miles, it should be clear to you that what he says is mostly nonsense. Whether he’s talking about beating up his grandma on “4 Wheeler” or “I Beat My Grandma with a Pumpkin,” or Martin Luther King on “Martin Luther King,” there is a certain magic to seeing just how dumb whatever he says next is. The first Yuno Miles song I ever heard was one of his biggest hits: “Road to Riches”.
I’m like Charlie Brown.
Except I ain’t Brown.
Bitch I’m Green.
On top of his usual nonsense, “Road to Riches” has Yuno Miles making weird sounds – a feature of a lot of Miles’ biggest hits. Genius transcribes his pigeon noise as “ALBLB-BLBBBBLBLBBLB,” and his lottery machine noise as “AAGGHAALALALALAAGH.” I would say that his pigeon noise is more of a “ALLBLLL-BHLLBHLLH,” while his lottery machine noise is more of a “ALAL-LALLLHLLHB.” To each their own.
I’m excited to see what Miles has in store for the future, especially having seen how good his weird vocal style sounded on “BOMB.” On that same song Yuno Miles says he’s about to blow up (just like a bomb), and I believe him. I’m on the edge of my seat watching where the road to riches is taking Yuno Miles. This is a pigeon.