AMNESTY 2011: Rej3ctz – Cat Daddy
Video contains Chris Brown, but we won’t hold it against them…
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[7.33]
Brad Shoup: Given the Jukebox’s noted affinity for anything Chris Brown, I assumed this was a lock to have already been covered, so this is a real treat. Each Rej3ct clearly loves the possibilities of vocal timbre: Bounc3 lays off the fricatives, Mowii goes for that Ying-Yang controlled rasp, and Pee W33’s own rasp is pitched somewhere between a drawl and something Diplomat-ic. Good origin story, too: producer JHawk built the track around the dance, resulting in a masterful patchwork of pings, hisses, and consumer-electronic white noise. Trying anything to entertain: that’s how I like my hip-hop one-hit wonders. (I prefer them with multiple hits, but hey.)
[9]
Jonathan Bogart: The hyperactive nonsense of the (old) New Boyz, the sonic-screwy nonsense of the (new) Wolf Gang — I didn’t think it would be this soon before someone tried to connect all the dots in underage L.A. hip-hop.
[7]
Frank Kogan: The core of this is when it goes really down-tempo about a minute in — as if we’ve found our way to secret sounds, phlegm and whispers and quiet booms, all having a wild subliminal party.
[7]
Kat Stevens: Hugely impressed at the car-keys-jangling-in-pocket production, hugely terrified by the sinister growling that accompanies it.
[5]
Jonathan Bradley: I’ve got no idea how jerking retains its novelty more than two years after its creative peak, but Rej3ctz are as welcome as New Boyz or Pink Dollaz. “Cat Daddy” is infectious thanks to a fiddly hook and slang appropriated from Nick ‘toons. (In fact the whole thing retains a charming innocence; the smartest line here is the goofy pun on acorns — and not the defunct activist group, either.) Who couldn’t stunt with a fist full of Krabby Patties?
[8]
Jer Fairall: Buoyant, ridiculous, irresistible and (wheelchair) accessible. There is now officially no reason in the world for LMFAO to exist.
[8]
FWIW: I’d have given this a 7 if I’d thought of anything half-decent to say about it.
Again, sorry for not being able to blurb the song I fricken nominated. I’m very ill (and not in the cool rapper way). But this is an [8] for me because it sounds like jerk remix of The Whisper Song mashed-up with a long-lost E-40 instrumental. And anything that simultaneously reminds me of the Ying Yang Twins AND hyphy has to be awesome.