SCARING THE HOES

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AlbumMar 24 / 202314 songs, 36m 20s
Experimental Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop
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Part of what makes Danny Brown and JPEGMAFIA such a natural pair is that they stick out in similar ways. They’re too weird for the mainstream but too confrontational for the subtle or self-consciously progressive set. And while neither of them would be mistaken for traditionalists, the sample-scrambling chaos of tracks like “Burfict!” and “Shut Yo Bitch Ass Up/Muddy Waters” situate them in a lineage of Black music that runs through the comedic ultraviolence of the Wu-Tang Clan back through the Bomb Squad to Funkadelic, who proved just because you were trippy didn’t mean you couldn’t be militant, too.

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The iconoclastic rappers collide on a JPEG-produced joint album that plays things fast and loose.

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Scaring The Hoes is a compilation of wicked, synaptic beats bleeding together in the more welcoming moments, but for the most part this is a project that deals in one thing and one thing only – JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown's frantic energy.

Review: Danny Brown and JPEGMAFIA's ‘Scaring The Hoes’

For a project that could have held unreasonable expectations, it overdelivers time and time again.

Detroit rapper Danny Brown and New York rapper/producer JPEGMAFIA already tend towards the experimental and the uncontainable with their individual work, and collaborative album Scaring the Hoes offers both artists a chance to revel in their eccentricities and amplify the more challenging elements of their sounds.

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Danny Brown and JPEGMAFIA are hip-hop's most evenly-matched odd couple. A duo known individually for their signature off-kilter styles, both...

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Let’s get this out the way first: ‘Scaring The Hoes’ is sensationally good. It’s a record that defies convention, while grabbing you from first note to

New York’s Jpegmafia and Detroit’s Danny Brown transmit from hip-hop’s hinterland, in a bacchanal of inspired noise and topical chat that’s the definition of ‘not for everybody’

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Album Reviews: JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes

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JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes review: im not proofreading this. you hear me