Description
Brian Burton (AKA Danger Mouse – one half of Gnarls Barkley, Broken Bells, and Karen O and Danger Mouse – and universally regarded as the most versatile producer in modern music) has found a formidable new partner in the incomparably prolific rapper Tariq Trotter (AKA Black Thought – rapper, MC and co-founder of The Roots, film and theater actor, producer, writer or, as Hypebeast sums up: “one of the best lyricists in hip-hop history”). Cheat Codes is Danger Mouses first hip-hop album in seventeen years – since his 2005 DangerDOOM collaboration with the late, great MF DOOM – and Black Thoughts only full length collaboration beyond his pioneering music in The Roots. On No Gold Teeth, Danger Mouses soulful, freewheeling production serves as the perfect backdrop to Black Thoughts metronomic, pin-sharp and chorus-free lyrical deluge. The result is a dizzying, thrilling opening single from two of contemporary musics most respected artists. The natural chemistry between Brian and Tariq comes through in the ease with which the artist and listener move through this album. Moreover, its an album untethered to any genre, era or trend uncategorizeable and timeless. It is the sound of the pair observing their own culture and asking questions they still may not have the answers to.
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