Can Lushlife be trusted?
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Looks more Vice than The Source? But sounds like Premier chopping Burt Bacharach and features Ariel Pink?! Preposterous!
I watch this video of Lushlife performing an acoustic version of CRU's classic hit "Just Another Case" and I can't be mad. It makes sense. It is not a drastic departure from the original, just stripped. Kudos to Lushlife.
I read the Lushlife press release and I struggle not to freak out on my keyboard with a tirade about the fusion of Ariel Pink with hip hop. I want to run to the nearest hipster hookah joint playing this record and start punching everything; hookahs, hipsters, baristas, belly dancers; maybe I'll rip down tapestries.
But that's just this record on paper. Truthfully, listen to "In Soft Focus" featuring Elzhi and try to hate. Go to his Myspace page, check out "Another Word For Paradise" with Camp Lo. Act like Lushlife didn't lace a sultry gem for the Lower homies. Act like he didn't hold his own next to the duo.
Lushlife, "In Soft Focus" (Feat. Ariel Pink & Elzhi)
It goes to say, you can't judge a rapper by his couture.
Lushlife's full length Cassette City (grumble) is out now on Rapster.
Posted on July 08, 2009. More on: ariel pink, camp lo, cru, deerhoof, elzhi, myspace, philadelphia, slum village, vice, video
I have to second this, he doesn't ham it up like a Dynamite Hack. Also his use of indie music samples is far from the contrived style so many bastardize. Unless you know who Ariel Pink is, you could hear this song and think he's "chipmunked" an obscure pyschedelic record and not sampled/featured a modern artist. He handles with care and that keeps him in my favor. It's not hip mash-up, its an appropriation of classic sampling techniques on modern genres.
— blake on July 08, 2009
The amount of restraint Lush has shown by not molding this classic into an irritating rendition really proves that he is no joke. I like this kid! He does beautiful work!
— A-duh on July 08, 2009