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JUVENILE - Reality Check
| AV Club |
| Juvenile's current single, "Rodeo," finds the New Orleans rapper in a familiar position: gazing adoringly at a nubile young flesh-peddler. But while the dynamic is familiar, the attitude is different. Where Juvenile's earlier booty songs cast him as a drunken, raggedy hustler belligerently demanding a lap-dance, "Rodeo" cunningly reconfigures him as a tipsy young playboy suavely requesting a lap-dance....full text |
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| StylusMagazine |
| Tropes are a big deal in art. Eliot never got over the war, Plath the domestic fall-out, Ang Lee is probably still obsessed with some gorgeous Chinese landscape scroll, Interpol probably has more to say about September 11, and N.W.A. sure as hell never forgot who helped decimate the black lower middle class in L.A....full text |
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| RollingStone |
| With a decade of party-hearty bounce hits like "Back Dat Azz Up" to his name, New Orleans native Juvenile hardly qualifies as a pointedly political rapper. But while finishing Reality Check, the hurricanes hit, and the 'Nolia boy wrote "Get Ya Hustle On," a rallying cry for everybody who "need a check from FEMA" after they "lost everything in Katrina....full text |
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