Plastic Little
She’s Mature

By Noel Dix

Don’t let their hipster status due to their association with Spank Rock and Diplo turn you off because these Plastic Little cats are a little more advanced and far more interesting in their approach when it comes to sex rhymes. Of course, their affiliation with that camp promises that Plastic Little are downright filthy, dropping lines about busting a nut like it was going out of style. Yet with some comedic cleverness and just shear talent backing their program, lumped with some pretty hot beats and catchy hooks, you sort of get over their perverseness pretty quickly. The production ranges from some bumping but rather straight forward hip-hop jams (given their circle of friends) but of course, there’s a good chunk of that booty bass throw in generously. It’s when these two styles are merged together that things get the most interesting, such as a rather great stab at flipping a familiar “Do the Hustle” sample to make a banger of a dance number. This is Plastic Little’s second dope record so there should be enough evidence now that these cats aren’t a crew to be slept on as a passing hipster fad, even if they do sample New Order and the Cure. (Méga Fiable)

Cedille - Vu Du Large
Chords - The Garden Around the Mansion
DMX - Year of the Dog… Again
Doujah Raze - Past Presence Features
Earmint - Another Early Evening
Evil - Call Me Evil
Exile - Dirty Science
Factor/Various - Famous Nights and Empty Days
Ginsberg’s Inkling - The Halfpenny Marvel
Igor Amokian - My Circuit Bent Mini EP
Intricate Minds - To The Letter
Motion Man - Pablito’s Way
New Flesh - Universally Dirty
New Flesh - Universally Dirty
Nicolay - Here
Pharrell - In My Mind
Polyphonic the Verbose - Abstract Data Ark
Red Menace - UnAmerican Activities
Scienz of Life - The Blaxploitation Sessions
Scott Da Ros - One Kind of Dead End
Swollen Members - Black Magic
Tha Dogg Pound - Cali Iz Active
Tumi and the Volume - Tumi and the Volume
Tupac - The Way He Wanted It Volume 2
Various Artists - This is Gangsta Rap
Yo Gotti - Back 2 Da Basics
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