![]() ![]() ![]() For instance, opener Coochie, courtesy of Ludacris and the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard (you know it ain’t a rap record without a track by a dead rapper), is an exercise in gratuitous adolescent sex humor, the kind we thought died along with gangsta rap many years ago. However, despite the freshness of this collaboration in theory, many of the lyrics fall into the haze of rap cliché and lowbrow mediocrity. It’s a formidable lineup of MCs to say the least, with no rapper stealing much of the limelight from his peers. Well, Blakroc turned out to be more rap than rock, with producer Damon Dash at helm and vocal duties designated almost completely to rappers like Ludacris, RZA, Raekwon and Q-Tip. The Akron, Ohio-based blues rockers wouldn’t be the first group I would guess to engage in a rap record, but then again, their last album was produced by Danger Mouse and their riffs are basic and blunt enough that they just might work behind, say, Mos Def. When Blakroc – the collaboration between garage rock duo The Black Keys and a handful of rappers – was announced, it was met by a feeling of vague understanding in this writer. ![]()
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