I don't really care that you don't like them but I have no idea how you get "sleaze" from a pair of teenagers* making glam rap.
If you want a sleazy rapper, like, again, Tyga, or someone like Action Bronson, who is actually an awful person IRL in addition to rapping about bodily functions, degrading women, and degrading women while exercising bodily functions.
"Sleaze" to me is a value judgment on like a moral level, Sremm don't seem like bad people to me. They make super-sanitized squeaky-clean "club" music that most clubs don't actually play, plus they actually have some investment in hip-hop as a genre both in the past and present tense (they like Kool Moe Dee!). They're like two steps removed from a bubblegum group. Like again, read the lyrics to "No Flex Zone". You can find it annoying if you want--whatever, I find plenty of things annoying--but it's mostly just rapping about having a lot of money and having girlfriends that are cooler than your girlfriends.
I'm bad at song titles but some of their recent singles were... really dubious. Also, if being nice and likeable were my main qualifier for liking artists, I'd be listening to Debbie Boone right now. I'm not saying their entire output is like that, but what I heard wasn't promising lyrically speaking, and the music and their voices especially just rubbed me the wrong way.
(Incidentally, Danny Brown's lyrics can be scuzzy as hell, but it's that feeling that it's all in character and in good fun rather than serious that keeps his stuff fun rather than unpleasant. Same rules apply for, say, Prurient, in that the lyrics fit the atmosphere and feel like a part of a persona and story.)
I also meant "tasteless" in that the production indulges in a lot of bizarre, absurd musical ideas aimed at making an immediate impact at the expense of actually holding up on close inspection, but again, that wouldn't be a problem if they did it in a way that I actually found enjoyable.
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(Incidentally, Danny Brown's lyrics can be scuzzy as hell, but it's that feeling that it's all in character and in good fun rather than serious that keeps his stuff fun rather than unpleasant. Same rules apply for, say, Prurient, in that the lyrics fit the atmosphere and feel like a part of a persona and story.)
I also meant "tasteless" in that the production indulges in a lot of bizarre, absurd musical ideas aimed at making an immediate impact at the expense of actually holding up on close inspection, but again, that wouldn't be a problem if they did it in a way that I actually found enjoyable.