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Track Listings
| 1. The Good Life |
| 2. Truth |
| 3. Opposite Of Adults |
| 4. Here We Go (feat. Q-Tip) |
| 5. All Things Go |
| 6. Nothing on We |
| 7. Bad Day |
| 8. Old Ways |
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Such scant consideration for the constricts of tradition pays dividends on what, you assume, convinced Chiddy Bang to plough on with this ruse in the first place. Breakthrough single Opposite of Adults weaves bars of MGMT’s Kids amid Chiddy’s thoughtful reminiscing, a fine example of two seemingly opposing musical mindsets congruously combined.
Where they simply crassly shoehorn in borrowed hooks as centrepieces – see rhyming over Passion Pit on Truth or All Things Go’s awkward Sufjan Stevens re-appropriation – a gimmicky whiff permeates the air, however. Both will grow on you, admittedly, yet you’re never quite sure which side they sit of the divide where basic recognition is mistaken for actually, well, liking a song.
Pitching the raw materials up an octave or three, it’s evident why Kanye West has championed Chiddy Bang, given he took chipmunk-frequency samples to mainstream-saturating heights. It’s a mutual love affair, too: The Good Life and Here We Go spit out rhyme patterns that, in part, rhythmically idolise Kanye’s patented flow.
Infinitely more effective melding arrives within the sweetly spiteful Bad Day. Inviting scraggle-haired indie-rocker Darwin Deez aboard in person, the resultant childish get-back could conceivably follow Cee Lo Green’s similarly motivated (ahem) Forget You to chart-topping status.
If hip hop purists got in a tizzy over Kanye’s collegiate dress-sense or blog-pleasing hipster rappers such as The Cool Kids, expect unprecedented hand wringing concerning Chiddy Bang. Yet taking issue with their shameless sampling is a little like calling out hip hop itself. And by filling a gap, until debut LP The Swelly Life emerges in early 2011, in the same semi-throwaway manner a mixtape might, Chiddy Bang heed rap rituals closer than cursory glances suggest.
--Adam KennedyFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off Amazon in a new window
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I knew that the first three songs, the singles, were brilliant, and the next two are great. 'All things go' was one of the best songs i'd ever heard.
However, towards the end of the album, the beats started to get less exiting, as if Xaphoon was getting tired. However, these songs have started to grow on me and i think i will end up loving them too.
Overall, i would give this 4.5 stars if i could, but the lazy end to album means that i have to give it four, even though the rest is brilliant.
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