Album Review: Chiddy Bang – The Preview

Like all smart genre-busters, Chiddy Bang are pretty much amazing but they’re never going to get much credit for it. College tours and unashamed indie sampling are always bound to stick out to ‘real rap’ specialists like a Lil Wayne video on TOTP2. The problem, one that Kanye ‘imaletchufinish’ West realised, is that hip-hop simply can’t dip into Stevie Wonder’s back catalogue forever. Sampling Passion Pit (‘Truth’), MGMT (‘Opposite of Adults’) and Sufjan Stevens (‘All Things Go’) might put them on a slippery slope towards skinny jeans, but someone had to do it, and on The Preview Chiddy Bang do it with braggadocio and style. If you still don’t like it, you’re the opposite of adults. Sorry.
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