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It's funnier and more pointed than Handsome Boy Modeling School.
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SpinThe Majesticons highlight commercial hip-hop's yawning credibility gap by amping up the bourgeois posturing to the point of absurdity. [Jun 2003, p.105]
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Laced with bitter irony so thick it drips out of your speakers.
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UrbWhile conscious rap often comes off as dour, this is a thoroughly enjoyable record, dignified and jiggy all at once. [Mar 2003, p.94]
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MagnetInhabit[s] some weird middle ground between The Teaches of Peaches and Prince's 1999. [#58, p.98]
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An album that so faithfully conveys the obsessions, sound, and tone of jiggy hip-hop that, out of context, it would be easy to mistake it for the music it parodies.
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A few tracks delve a little too far into ditzy R&B territory and thus come off sounding a little too similar to the songs they mimic.
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In the end though, Ladd's too good at producing a realistic commercial rap record; Beauty Party falls prey to the same faults, and the occasionally bland material never rises above its satirical value.
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Without its context, Beauty Party doesn't make any sense.
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FrankSMay 11, 2005Good music. That's it.