Correct me if I am wrong but if you’re a cutting edge Australian hip hop artist, are you legally immune from prosecution for failing to acknowledged the blatant sampling of a famous films in your music? In particular, as brilliant an idea as it is, a pivotal track on this album directly and un-subtly samples Pink Floyd’s “Learning To Fly” and in the process turns the most un-danceable band in the world to one of the most danceable. Elsewhere Tom Jones croons from his classic “It’s Not Unusual.” Not since, Vanilla Ice refused to acknowledge he had even heard the Queen / David Bowie song “Under Pressure” has an artist been so arrogant.
Although reading the crude, offensive, barely literate and misogynist linear notes, the rapper sounds like he may have terminal liver cancer, in which case maybe he doesn’t care about earthly issues like copyright and getting sued. Legalities aside, this album with it’s extreme subject matter is somewhat of a concept album, loosely inspired by Hunter S Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas”, even going so far as to draw on an iconic image from the Terry Gilliam adaptation for the album cover, in which the duo pose for a portrait with their faces worked into the picture. The rhymes are nasty, drawing on drugs and booze for inspiration, occasionally rapping about sex with midgets for good measure, this is an evil little album and a great concept. Spontaneous, hardcore, Aussie Hip-Hop at it’s most extreme and dangerous.
