Pitckfork liked it, and I have to say that Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell made me suspect these guys aren't as dumb as that song might make you think.
I was not wrong. These guys are obnoxious, but they are not dumb. These guys are good god damn rappers and they might be the smartest guys in the room right now.
Normally I don't like the long rap album, and at 80 minutes or so, this borders on ridiculous. But if your main claim to fame consisted of 9 words worth of sassiness, maybe you'd feel pressure to spit complex, chorusless, stream-of-consciousness rhymes, constantly, for nearly an hour and a half, just to prove your point. These guys are painlessly self-aware, and painfully aware of everything around them, dumping verse after verse about everything modern, and everything we're currently nostalgic about. Which is everything.
The production is varied, but generally electronic, rough, and nasty, with line after line piled on top of it. It's exhausting at times, and the length is excessive, but somehow I feel like it might be some kind of hyperdense masterpiece 4.5/5
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