Ying Yang Twins: Me And My Brother : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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There are a few things in hip-hop you can depend on -- one of them is Atlanta's Ying Yang Twins rapping about strippers, weed, drankin', and asses shakin' to the ground. D-Roc and Kaine are no innovators, and their third album, Me and My Brother, is a crunktastic rehash of their favorite pastimes. The production is again mostly booty bass-centric (as evidenced on "Grey Goose"), and the gravelly-voiced rappers don't aim much higher lyrically, either. The hook to "Georgia Dome" is so inane it crosses into self-parody as they chant, "Suck it, suck it, suck it, suck it, lick it, lick it, lick it, lick it." Like a fifteen-year-old boy getting laid for the first time, the Twins are so eager to get to their shouted, crack-pipe catchy hooks ("Hanh!," "What's Happnin!," "What The F***!"), the verses feel like poorly executed foreplay. The misogyny train takes a slight detour near album's end when the Twins follow their latest gripefest about women, "Naggin'," with a response track from newcomers Ms. Flawless and Tha Rhythum, "Naggin' (The Answer)." But after thirty-five minutes of leering and jeering, the equal opportunity dis-for-dat shot is a flaccid attempt at parity.

GIL KAUFMAN
(September 29, 2003)