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Goldie Lookin Chain: Greatest Hits

Album

Goldie Lookin Chain: Greatest Hits

2004Hip-Hop/Rap · Music · Pop · Rock

UK joke-rappers spin hip-hop on its head and take aim at the world.

Tracks

  1. 11:10
  2. 23:45
  3. 33:36
  4. 43:40
  5. 53:07
  6. 64:11
  7. 70:42
  8. 82:29
  9. 93:03
  10. 104:24
  11. 110:49
  12. 123:13
  13. 133:46

About this album

The boundary-testing Welsh comedy collective Goldie Lookin Chain send up white working-class culture and the music industry with sly self-awareness, rambunctious energy, and a stand-up's command of silly voices. Over jaunty clarinets and boom-bap breaks, "Self Suicide" considers dying young as a record-sales strategy, and the satiric "Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do" mocks anti-rap crusaders over a surprisingly funky track packed with knowing hip-hop references. Judging by the old-school electro on "Roller Disco," no matter how off-the-wall the jokes are, the boys are dead serious about their beats.