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Also, some of these guys actually rap about money and luxury cars, which has sort of become the opposite of what these guys are all about. So the tape works as a fascinating glimpse of a rap group figuring out its identity, but even with a handful of strong Tyler moments, it's not really anything you need in your iTunes.
Hodgy's debut mixtape features almost no guest verses, and Hodgy just wasn't far along enough as a rapper to warrant an hour-long album to himself. Hodgy's far from the crew's most charismatic rapper, and his sleepy behind-the-beat delivery works best when it's used as a foil to Tyler's manic ferocity.
But Hodgy raps here like someone who doesn't even remotely care about rapping. He wouldn't hit his stride until he linked up with non-rapping producer Left Brain to form MellowHype, where Hodgy's lazy delivery becomes a part of Left Brain's sonic universe.
MellowHype's debut album YelloWhite would come not long after The Dena Tape , and there's a world of progress in between the two releases. This is where things get great. Bastard is a minor masterpiece of shock art and teenage spleen-vent, a spiritual cousin of some of the most misanthropic tantrums that the L.
But it's also a beautifully put-together piece of work, one that lays out its position right away and then does everything it can to keep you uncomfortable. Tyler is smart enough to start things off with the title track, a soul-laid-bare rant about evil thoughts and absent fathers over still, eerie piano plinks. The track works great on its own, but it also creates a context for all the rape jokes and murder talk that follows; no matter how grisly things get, you still stay on this kid's side to at least some extent.
And things really do get grisly. Morally, it's repugnant, but the pure shocking force of it is so raw and distilled that it carries a certain appeal of its own.
When, after all, was the last time you heard music that aimed to shock and actually succeeded? The other Odd Future guys can come off like kids clowning each other when they talk about stuff like that, but thanks to his sandpaper rasp, Tyler actually sounds demonic. More importantly, though, Bastard is just a straight-up great rap album, the first from the Odd Future camp.
Tyler's beats move with a warped fluidity, running the loungey swooshes of late-period Neptunes through a grimy basement-punk sensibility. The other members of the now-whole crew show up for quick, effective cameos, getting in and out without overstaying their welcome and offering much-needed respites from Tyler's constant rage.
On fired-up tracks like "French" and "Tina", the group builds up the rowdy, fuck-the-world energy of someone like Waka Flocka Flame, except they still sound like kids fucking around in a basement when they're doing it. All in all, this is a landmark album in the quickly-evolving kids-posting-rap-music-online universe.
Terrifyingly, a few hundred kids are probably attempting to make their own versions of it as you read this. MellowHype is Hodgy Beats and non-rapping producer Left Brain, and the duo works because it finds a context for Hodgy where he's not front-and-center the whole time. Even though Hodgy's the main rapping voice on YelloWhite , Left Brain's production is just as important, and Hodgy's voice is way deeper in the mix here than it was on The Dena Tape.
Left Brain's production style is cleaner and crispier than Tyler's-- closer, aesthetically, to the Neptunes beats that inspired them both, though they still have a certain homespun pillowy weirdness to them. As a rapper, Hodgy's still a far less iconoclastic figure than Tyler; he raps about girls and money and being cool rather than cocaine and rape and hating his dad.
His monotonal behind-the-beat delivery makes a lot of sense in a world where Wiz Khalifa is a rap star. So YelloWhite is a whole lot more approachable and less transformative than Bastard.
But the album still brings a heavy dose of that misfit skate-rat us-against-the-world mentality that makes up such a big part of Odd Future's appeal.
These are weird kids banding together to make noise, and even Hodgy, the resident cool guy, still comes off as a scrappy underdog. The mysteriously absent year-old cult hero Earl Sweatshirt is the best pure rapper in Odd Future, and maybe also the most depraved. On the viral hit "Earl", he introduces himself thus: "Sent to Earth to poke Catholics in the ass with saws and knock blunt ashes into they caskets and laugh it off. EARL , just 26 minutes long, is a dark fantasia of blood and rape and evil, and I absolutely hated it the first time I heard it.
Now, months later, I still can't shake it, and I sort of love it. Musically, it's a great, short distillation of the Odd Future aesthetic, with Tyler's murky synths and lurching drums only slightly obscuring a great ear for melody, like the hop-skipping piano line that makes "Luper" bounce so hypnotically. And as a rapper, Earl has a dizzy gift for internal rhyme and for coming up with turns of phrase that get embedded deep in your head.
EARL is also a smart, well-constructed little album, and even the skits work. On intro track "Thisniggaugly", Tyler introduces a silent Earl with all Tyler's friends clown him: "This nigga look like an African poet!
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