Cex / Bad Acne

Tigerbeat6

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12"
$3.50
MEOW 057 LP
751937187615
Street Date:
October 22nd, 2002
Ship Date:
October 14th, 2002

The first single off CEX's Tall, Dark and Handcuffed full-length album. Tall, Dark and Handcuffed is a wicked little chameleon that escaped from the tangled brain of RJYAN KIDWELL. "Bad Acne" is a bouncy hip hop track perfectly comfortable with its beautiful blemishes, content to be a radio party jam, a radical manifesto, a venomous battle rap, and an emo ritual all at once. Cex duets with his hometown pal MC HEIGHT on "K-12 Days of Hell," a song breaking down the frightening and awkward experience of grade school. "Ghost Rider" got fifteen-hundred people in Spain shouting "Get on your bikes and ride!" at the Sonar festival (and we all know that many Spaniards can't be wrong). People may debate whether this is cutting-edge underground hip hop, and abrupt return to the old-school attitudes, the antidote to weak, early '80s hard-rock revival nonsense, or some king of incoherent satire, but while the dickheads argue, Kidwell will be making more tracks that move asses to the dancefloor. Or he'll be watching MTV. One or the other. Includes instrumental mixes of each.