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Brendan Murphy
Music Reviewer
All jokes aside, this is a good hip-hop album. Though given that this is the latest project of Jerome Sable and Eli Batalion, creators of Job: The Hip-Hop Musical, one should not put the jokes too far aside. In some ways, this is similar to the Handsome Boy Modeling School projects, where the musicality threatens to overwhelm the gimmick if the gimmickry weren't so damn funny, yo. Check 3-3-7, featuring Red-I Knight, which talks about erasing phone messages from one-night stands, and Gidget the Midget, the tale of a pornographic little person, to catch the hip-hop humour that makes this album. But what impressed me was that the boys, appearing here as Bushman (Sable) and VowelMovement (Batalion), can spit, dropping witty intricate rhymes that flow, and, given the well-documented musical backgrounds of both, the beats are no joke.