SIR MIX-A-LOT
Daddy's Home (Rhyme Cartel)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Dirty old men are awesome and Sir Mix-A-Lot is one of the funniest, dirtiest old men out there. This new album is trad Mix-A-Lot material, with entire songs dedicated to the (under)size of his penis (with many sage words of advice to men everywhere about how if you don't want your woman to end up with John Holmes, there are things ordinary men have to do) and how rappers today are just renting the act and how hard it was to make his bills as a performer back in the day. The album is more than its subject matter, though, and is full of fabulously contemporary and original musical arrangements and crazy sound effects - as always Sir Mix-A-Lot is an amazing spoken word artist, both rhythmically and lyrically, and this album just proves that any major comeback is just a walk in the sun for someone like him.

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