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Album Review: New Boyz (Skinny Jeanz & A Mic)

7th Feb 2010

AFTER a quick glance at the infor­ma­tion for this record, it’s quite clear which of this two-piece is the lyri­cist and who was in charge of writ­ing the song titles. To directly quote band­mem­ber Ben J, ‘thank u for bein around and keepin me goin when I needed to be helped.’

If you can push past the hilar­ity of the song titles (You’re A Jerk; Way 2 Many Chickz), it appears that their pro­duc­tion skills are almost as awful as their lit­er­acy. Take a list of any famous rap artists that come to mind, and it’s pretty likely that you’ll recog­nise one of their tracks within this album.

Rather than pulling influ­ence from the tracks, it seems they have lit­er­ally just lifted one bar from each of them, and played it on a loop, with the help of a drum-machine. The afore­men­tioned Way 2 Many Chickz sounds almost exactly like Snoop’s Drop It Like It’s Hot by way of GarageBand.

There is per­haps one rec­ti­fy­ing fac­tor on this album, and that is Bunz, which is the only track to show actual poten­tial for release. I cer­tainly wouldn’t rec­om­mendz u buyin thiz album any tym soonz.