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| Pitchfork |
 Remember when everyone was having panic-attack cred-spasms over skinny-jeans rap? Thinkpieces about indie appropriation, flame wars about "real hip-hop," stock insults hefted toward Billyburg trusties-- good times, right? Well, not every pioneer goes unrewarded. Five years after the Diplo-sanctioned fuck-bass shtick of Spank Rock's YoYoYoYoYo set critics' brows furrowing, there's a lucrative boom in party music that turns the once-communal dancefloor/club experience into overblown swag-level competitions between Red Bull-addled alpha males. And if you push hyperactive pussy-popping anthems to enough well-meaning lefty skeptics who are otherwise hesitant to buy into strip-club chic, eventually that noise will ricochet its way toward the mainstream. Anything that skeevy to the point of being problematic has to have real transgressive pop cred, right?
So waiting a good half-decade between the debut and the follow-up shouldn't matter too much. Not with an updated production sound and some choice gigs sharing bills with Ke$ha and LMFAO to back the sophomore effort. The beats on this new album signal a shift in emphasis from Spank Rock as self-contained Hollertronix-satellite rapper/producer group to Spank Rock as MC showcase, with YoYoYoYoYo's sonic architect XXXChange taking a backseat to a new palette heavy on German electro-scuzz specialists Boys Noize. It all bumps distractingly enough, sure. The opening salvo of "Ta Da" builds off a decent swath of plink-thump minimalism that serves as a little early snap-music nostalgia, and the Santigold-boosted "Car Song" pulls off a good mixture of jittery, late-nite, uptempo, indie dance-punk bombast. Even the token sop to indie-punk, the Death Set collaboration "Energy", has a neat interpolation of the break from Can's "Vitamin C" underpinning its bursts of freakout rock. The worst you can say about the production is that it can be sort of anonymous-- there's a song called "#1 Hit", and I bet you know what it sounds like without listening-- but it's nominally the sort of stuff an engaging presence on the mic can overcome....full text |
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| Spin |
| Spank Rock MC Naeem Juwan mostly has avoided the spotlight since his group's 2006 booty-rap debut, YoYoYoYoYo; and the title of this self-released follow-up suggests an explanation. Employing a variety of producers, Everything undertakes a cathartic reinvention via late-night, sex-driven trips through dim, sweaty basement parties. Big Freedia flips New Orleans bounce on "Nasty," Santigold lends breathy innuendo to "Car Song," and Mark Ronson and Boys Noize turn the bloated bass of "#1 Hit" into vogue-worthy pop. Juwan shines when he channels a tortured Prince on "Baby," but "Race Riot" -- a track urging ladies to "shake it till my dick turns racist" -- reminds us that he's an ace rapper...full text |
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| Rollingstone |
| Early on his new album, this Baltimore rapper name-checks scholar Cornel West – just after roughly a half- dozen lines about dry-humping over a speaker cabinet. Duality is Spank Rock’s genius on a hook-loaded, avant-garde dance record that admits what’s on its mind: sex, dancing, failing schools, a "post-black personality crisis," partying, war and sex. (Yes, he's like many of us.) He's a provocateur à la Odd Future’s Tyler, the Creator – "Shake it till my dick turn racist," he instructs in "Race Riot." But if there's a guiding spirit here, it's 1980s Prince: wildly funky pop music led by an impressive creative hard-on. ...full text |
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