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Beauty Party
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  • Summary: 'Beauty Party' represents experimental hip-hop artist Mike Ladd's second album in a planned trilogy, the first being 2000's 'Gun Hill Road' by The Infesticons. Unlike its predecessor, the Majesticons disc ventures into commercial rap territory (albeit with a satirical bent), attempting to'Beauty Party' represents experimental hip-hop artist Mike Ladd's second album in a planned trilogy, the first being 2000's 'Gun Hill Road' by The Infesticons. Unlike its predecessor, the Majesticons disc ventures into commercial rap territory (albeit with a satirical bent), attempting to skewer contemporary hiphop by beating it at its own game.… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Spin
    83
    The 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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  2. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    It's funnier and more pointed than Handsome Boy Modeling School.
  3. Magnet
    80
    Inhabit[s] some weird middle ground between The Teaches of Peaches and Prince's 1999. [#58, p.98]
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  4. Ink 19
    80
    Laced with bitter irony so thick it drips out of your speakers.
  5. The A.V. Club
    70
    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.
  6. Epilogue Music
    67
    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.
  7. PopMatters
    50
    Without its context, Beauty Party doesn't make any sense.

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  1. FrankS
    May 11, 2005
    8
    Good music. That's it.