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April 28, 2025 7 mins

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Ever wonder what your teenagers are actually dancing to at their $125-a-ticket prom? DJ ESG pulls back the curtain on what might be the most expensive disconnect in American education today.

With razor-sharp wit and three decades of DJ experience, I break down today's most popular prom anthems lyric by lyric, revealing what students, teachers, and parents are actually celebrating. From Kendrick Lamar's tracks about pain and trauma (but make it sexy for slow dancing) to songs literally titled "Slutty" that administrators somehow approve, this episode exposes the stunning hypocrisy of modern prom culture.

The musical autopsy is both hilarious and horrifying as we discover songs about anxiety, mental health struggles, toxic relationships, and explicit sexual content – all playing while teachers sip Diet Coke and pretend it's normal. Meanwhile, parents drop hundreds on corsages, promposals, and formal wear, blissfully unaware their teens are forming memories to soundtracks about getting paid, getting laid, and glorifying destructive behaviors.

This isn't just about music – it's about the massive generational disconnect happening in schools nationwide, where superintendents and school boards in evening gowns smile and nod while approving playlists that contradict every value they claim to uphold. From security measures costing millions to prevent the very behaviors celebrated in these songs, to the financial absurdity of an event that costs more than a semester of community college, this episode asks the uncomfortable question: What are we really teaching our kids?

Share this episode with a parent, teacher, or administrator who needs to hear what's actually happening on the gym floor when the lights go down and the music comes up. And maybe think twice about what you're really paying for with that prom ticket.

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Peace, Love & God Above! :-)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up guys?
Dj ESG and welcome to the RockBottom Podcast, my prom 2025
Council Rock's clueless clambakeof carnage edition.
Welcome back where we dive facefirst into the shit show.
Nobody else has the balls totalk about Today's topic the
senior prom At 100 to 125.
A ticket to watch yourteenagers twerk the songs about

(00:21):
anxiety, strippers, guns,hustling and birthday sex.
While the school board smilesin their evening hustling and
birthday sex.
While the school board smilesin their evening gowns like
they're hosting the goddamnnobel peace prize.
Here's what's about to happenon that gym floor, folks, and I
know it's the same thing.
It was back in the 90s, but theywere talking about gangster rap
and shooting and killing eachother.
But let me talk to you straightfire two sentences or less per
song.
What they're talking about now,in 2025 not like us by kendrick

(00:45):
lamar.
Everybody's fake, everybody's abitch counselor.
Our kids be jumping around likethey're dissing rival gangs.
But don't worry, board membersthink it's a confidence anthem
luther, kendrick lamar and sizza, pain, trauma and broken homes.
But make it sexy.
Perfect for a slow dancebetween two seniors who met on
snap and still don't know eachother's last names.
Nokia by drake my love.

(01:05):
Life's a dumpster fire and I'mdrunk texting you on a burner
phone.
Parents in the parking lot oh,isn't drake so talented.
Meanwhile, inside, raw toxicity.
Set to a bouncy beat anxiety bydoce, I have mental breakdowns
and still look hot as fuck.
Honestly, the most accuratetheme song for every girl
getting ready for prom sincejanuary money on money, young
thug, get rich or die trying,but with way more codeine.

(01:29):
Counselor rock thinks this songis about financial literacy.
God bless their fucking souls.
Top down, whiz khalifa, smoke,weed, blast music and avoid
responsibilities.
Exactly the vibe when half theprom goers pregame in the wawa
parking a lot and stumble in at8 45 man, I love being a fucking
teacher.
I could love it.
Pimps and hustlers, lil tigerand wiz khalifa.

(01:49):
I probably said that wrong.
It's probably like lou tiger orsomething, I don't fucking know
.
Every woman is a transactionand every dude's a ceo.
Administration hears the wordhustler and thinks
entrepreneurship, electiveidiots, it's a fee by logic.
If you want my time, you bettervenmo me bitch.
Pretty fitting when the corsagecost 85 and the promposal
balloons were an additional 200.

(02:09):
Slutty by designer.
Oh my god, I remember panda.
I'm nasty and proud and here'sa three minute song about it
half, the problem will be dry.
Humping to this by 10 15, whileteachers sip, diet coke and
pretend it's normal, pictureperfect, big homie g.
Life's a shit storm, but I lookfresh, so who the hell cares
parents?
These pictures are memories,reality.
Girls flashing gang signs andguys holding up two fingers like

(02:30):
they're recruiting for thebloods pent up in the penthouse.
Russ.
I'm rich, lonely andsuspiciously emotional.
Exactly the vibe for that onesenior crying in the bathroom
because her situation shipdidn't text back square one by
redville back to the bottom.
But we're vibing about it.
Honestly.
This might be the most accuratesong for the entire graduating
class entering the job market.
Rather Lie, playboy, cardi andthe Weeknd.

(02:51):
I'd rather fake my love for youthan be alone.
Nothing screams high schoolrelationship goals louder than
this absolute masterpiece ofdysfunction.
Can't Hide it.
Featuring John Aiko Lil Durkwho Is that English?
I'm cheating, but I wrote asong about it, so it's romantic.
Somebody's gonna dedicate thisto their date while their exes
watch from across the dancefloor, tv Off.

(03:12):
Featuring lefty gunplay,kendrick Lamar.
Turn off the distractions, turnup the crime statistics.
Super chill.
Definitely appropriate for a $1million school renovation and
brand new security doors.
Baked chicken so suppa, my lovelife and my brain are equally
overcooked.
Perfect metaphor for seniorswho've been mentally checked out
since February and only showedup for the free food or the food

(03:32):
their parents paid for.
Squabble up, kendrick Lamar.
Throw hands, not words.
Can't wait for two dudes fromopposing lunch tables to square
up in the middle of SweetCaroline, dark thoughts, lil
Tecca, depression.
But it might be a party banger,a slow dance where everybody's
smiling on the outside and dyingon the inside.
Peak Gen Z energy Birthdayfeaturing Monty Fetty Wap.
If it's your birthday, youbetter be getting laid or die

(03:53):
trying Moms think this is ahappy birthday song.
Spoiler alert it's literallyabout just fucking on your
birthday.
Went Legit by G Herbo.
Where do these names come from?
I was doing crimes, now I'mdoing taxes Probably the only
semi-wholesome message.
So naturally no one will listento it.
And there you have it.
Council, rock your taxpayerdollars at work from me, dj ESG,
a DJ who's been playing promsongs for over 30 years.

(04:14):
You're renting out ballroomspace for a live-action music
video about depression, drugmoney and emotionally
unavailable teenagers, andnobody gives a flying fuck
because, oh my God, it's theirspecial night.
Meanwhile, the superintendentis out here approving chaperone
lists like he's running adaycare for felons and the
director of secondary educationis too busy stapling his goatee
to his chin to realize thatslutty is track three.
God bless America, god blessyou, council Rock, and God bless

(04:34):
promposals that cost more thana semester of community college.
I'm DJ ESG.
Enjoy the prom, y'all, soulja.
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