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Prompt:: https://theoldguardkinkmeme.dreamwidth.org/7393.html?thread=2733793#cmt2733793

Yusuf is a dreamy socially conscious rapper with a huge online following. He has refused to sign to any of the big labels. He has early Frank Ocean vibes where he's used male pronouns in his songs but hasn't publically said anything. He is intensely private about his personal life. There is of course a lot of speculation.

Nicky is an Italian popstar trying to break into the rest of Europe and also shed his squeaky clean public image his old PR team cultivated for him since the beginning of his career. He is a big (secret?) fan of Yusuf's music and envies his ability to be who he is unapologetically. He hires a new manager who just so happens to know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Yusuf.

The single is an unexpected hit and the video clip is so steamy it comes with a warning label.

Fill (kinda): Fistful of Trouble
I wrote some song lyrics, but IDK if this counts as a proper fill? So I posted here and on the original prompt in case it helps prompt an actual fic. XD May this inspire you to write about the smoking hot music video they make; where they're very handsy, do a lot of eye-fucking, and Yusuf (& Nico?) is pretty in makeup.

Mood drawn from Natalia Kill’s Trouble & Emily Sandé’s Garden (ft. Áine Zion & Jay Electronica).

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Fistful of Trouble by Nicolò ft. Yusuf The Poet

Been dreaming ‘bout you lately baby
know you’re gonna be nothing but trouble,
but baby, you could be my fistful of trouble

Last night’s makeup, your lipstick on my mouth
I ruined you and your perfect mouth ‘cause you
spin me tales that keep me coming back for more
night after night. Night after night, for more and more.

Friends say I need more sleep, but baby
it’s last night’s eyeliner smudged
from when you had me crying out for more.
Only you could wring every last drop out of me, and have me
coming back for more, night after night, for more and more.

Yusuf the Poet:
Mama always warned me of the family curse:
love me once I put a spell on you,
love me twice you put a spell on me:
love me truly, love me deeply, love me only.
Was a warning never to go to bed with a man like you,
a fistful of trouble, ‘cause we always give our hearts away,
and men like you are always gone before the dawn,
But baby it’s too late, I’ve made my bed,
it’s you lying in it, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

x2:
Been dreaming about you lately, baby
know you’re gonna be nothing but trouble,
but baby, you’re my fistful of trouble

Nicolò & Yusuf the Poet:
Spin me one more tale,
tell me one more lie:
that you’ll stay the night,
and let me call you mine.

Well I'm very upset this isn't a song I can go listen to.

omg same x1000, these lyrics are terrific

Thank you!! This gives me an extra boost of confidence; I have a WIP for the Carole & Tuesday fandom that involves song lyrics and I was a bit apprehensive about it. Y'know the usual "...are people gonna lambast me for these lyrics being Bad." So I really appreciate your comment!

Thank you! I dabble in poetry, but it's something that doesn't get make its way into my fanfic, so it was fun to write this. :) I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Although if someone wants to set these words to music as a fill, I won't complain about that either! :D

OP here!! Oof! These lyrics are hot af. I love the scene you've set. Yes to Yusuf in make-up, eye fucking and a lot of touching!

Glad you liked it OP! :DD And glad teh hotness came through; it was hard to be so brief but also try to pack in the pop-slick-sexy.

Note: I needed a break from the Booker/Nile milkbar AU fill I’m working on, and this happened. No promises if I’ll write more, but every time I think about finally posting the song lyrics to ao3, I think “oh, wouldn’t it be nice to write the music video?” 🤦‍

References:
--Sinister Spit is an homage to the queer open mic tour Sister Spit and the lesbian literature mag Sinister Wisdom
--Nile’s poem has a whale in it as a hat tip to Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ episode on How to Survive the End of the World podcast (IIRC).
--Form of course is inspired by Daisy Jones and the Six (one of the few non-genre fiction books I’ve read within memory)
--and thanks to the good ppl who gif’d Luca’s thighs in Il mondo fino in fondo

Interview with Nile Freeman

Nile: *laughing * You’re asking me how Fistful of Trouble came about? I didn’t even write the thing!

Interviewer: Yeah, but it’s your fault!

Nile: *still laughing * If you say so. So, I’d met Nicky on the queer poetry circuit. I’d gotten into the Sinister Spit tour, and for their 25th anniversary they were going to do some shows abroad. So of course, I said yes, updated my passport and booked my flight.

{An audio clip of Nile’s performance:
my family keeps telling me
what a big deal it is for me to ‘cross the Atlantic.
I tell them it’s just another northward migration,
but when I’m watching the miles and miles
of salt water from thirty-one hundred feet up,
I wonder if the whales could talk,
what kinda wisdom they’d have.}

Interviewer: It was your piece called ‘Northward Migration’ that caught Nicolò’s attention right?

Nile: That’s what he says, but I think I just knew how to hit it off with him. He was a little shy, right? But he stayed after the show, so I didn’t go balls to the walls when I approached.

Interviewer: You let him have his silences.

Nile: Yeah. So we hit it off, and exchanged numbers. I didn’t know he was such a big deal here!

Interviewer: And you didn’t know he wasn’t out at the time?

Nile: Hey, that wasn’t any of my business, and it certainly isn’t your place to judge.

Interviewer: I’m sorry. So, the two of you stayed in touch?

Nile: Yeah, I’d say you’re friends when you send each other dumb cat memes at 3am.

Interviewer: A friendship for the ages, truly.

Nile: So I knew Nicky was a fan of Joe’s. He forwarded me Joe’s piece, ‘Temple of You.’

Yusuf: Oh? It was that piece that caught his attention!

Nicolò: It was a very moving piece!

Yusuf: “we keep saying our body is a temple / to only put the finest things upon it / in it, and I’ve worked so hard to make myself worthy / of even laying my lips upon the strong column of your thighs”

Nile: You two are disgustingly adorable. You’ve recited that to him how many times, and he still gets that dopey look on his face.

Nile smiles

Nile: So, I tell Nicky that I know Joe! I even offered to tell him the next time Joe was in Europe, since he still visits family there on occasion. But Nicky didn’t want to impose.

Interview: Until he finished his contract with Wandering Rogue Records and his manager Meta Kozak.

Nile: Right, so we’re talking about the career change and he says, “Nile, would you mind introducing me to Joe? I want to make an artful statement about who I am, and I think he’s perfect.” I did not expect it to be so…

Interview: Searing? Hot?

Nile: Yeah, all that and more. I knew they’d get along, but damn.

so i've been playing with this fic since i last posted! the fic is pretty much done and just needs some light editing, fact checking, and poetry confidence. I'm also open to suggestions on how to make the Comments section sound more Internet-y. :)

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Comments

FrenchToastDaCat: holy shit is that Nicolò?????

ReggieInGlasses: Nicolò knows who Yusuf the Poet is, omg

RainbowBlerd: I ship it

Marcoxx96: is it me, or is it getting hot in here?

NekoDeOro: He! Put! His! Hand! There!

LovelyLeslie: *my body is ready gif*

DawnTreader: ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

TheFutureIsQueer: I’m a lesbian, but I would 100% bang the both of them

MonaeMarryMe: I had to double check I was on Youtube and not YouPorn

AshworthFord4: OMFG, the eyefucking, how did the crew not spontaneously combust? 🥵🥵🥵

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Interviews

Ursula Butler, writer: What did Fistful of Trouble mean to me? Oh, man, it was an awakening.

Titty Simone, drag queen: You know that story about how Dolly Parton saw the town tramp and thought, I wanna be her when I grow up? That’s how I felt when I saw that vid.

Jia Hong, cultural critic: Oh my God, do you remember what a media storm it was when it got released? People lost their fucking shit over it. Like, how dare two men be hot, wear lipstick, and love on each other. It wasn’t obscene like some of the media said; it was punch-to-your-gut lust, and a fistful of trouble straight to my heart.

Max Seal, performer: It’s sexy, no doubt, but it brought a lot of love into the world too. It was a doorway to loving ourselves, and others. How many of us made out on the dance floor to it? That’s how I met my partners in fact. It was only fitting then we played it at our wedding too.

The rest of the fic is now posted in full on ao3
https://archiveofourown.org/works/32501455/

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