Rating: NNN
I don’t get Riff Raff. He has ginger cornrows and obnoxious facial hair and looks like a Cazwell-Omarion hybrid. He’s also had the odd inspired moment, like Bird On A Wire with Action Bronson, but mostly I think he’s a joke (?). But Riff Raff recently performed in Toronto, taking the 2-D meme into real life, and people I’m inclined to believe said they enjoyed it.
This mixtape is Riff Raff’s Mad Decent debut. On first song Jody Highroller, he sings Auto-Tuned love boasts over an unearthed Caspa single. It’s like a T-Pain dubstep song and, surprisingly, I love it.
Single Jose Canseco has Raff lampooning hater culture and cramming inane multisyllabic words into tight spaces to hilarious effect. Though the album is way too long (25 tracks), it unfolds the same way: half-sung cannily rapped lyrics over beats so synthetic, they’ll keep Raff afloat over the decomposing detritus of the internet.
Top track: Lil Mama
