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...hundred grand apiece. In “Grew Up a Screw Up,” featuring Young Jeezy, Luda does absolutely nothing with the Biggie sample with which he has been blessed enough to be able to afford to rap over. This track is only worth the one laugh that you always get from Jeezy’s ad-libs. (“YEEEEEEEAHHHHHH.”) Next comes “Money Maker,” a track that would annihilate the soul of any backpack hip-hop fan on contact. A track that officially makes Pharrell, the mastermind...
...breakthrough “oh snap, he’s still going” Public Enemy-style final verse is accompanied by a “humorous” interlude involving a pizza deliveryman. It’s a surprise that they didn’t put in a laugh track. I expected Matt LeBlanc to show up. Only a Jazze Pha vocal appearance would be a greater affront to such a musical masterpiece. What a shame. —J. Samuel Abbott
...Even if General Sonthi keeps his promise and returns power to civilian hands, the damage is done. Neither the dictatorial style of Thaksin's rule, nor the manner of his departure, are worth celebration. Sukma believes the Thai coup will embolden "antidemocratic forces" across the region. "They are all laughing at democracy now," he warns. Democracy might yet have the last laugh, but in much of Asia that day remains a long...
...bring that up because I sense the media are ignoring the true American family and instead are putting the dramas of affluent families on Page One. It would be O.K. if they delivered those portraits with a sardonic wink, so that we might laugh at the foibles of the well-off. But there is no wink. In the eyes of the media, we all buy Baby Einstein...
...boring moment. And as the layers of the mix wander from genre to genre, there are some revelatory moments. “Juicy” over “Tiny Dancer”? Paul Wall over “California”? The first time you’ll laugh; the second time you’ll philosophize.The DJ here shows a gift for reducing songs to only the most necessary elements, as when field-stripping The Rentals’ “Friends of P” from a three and a half minute slice of mid-90?...