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Last year, English rapper Ben "Plan B" Drew blew up a little in the
U.K. with a debut that highlighted dark, visceral beats and quick-tongued,
angry rhymes about crack addiction and busted love. Now released
stateside, Who Needs Actions is a record you won't quickly forget, thanks
especially to Drew's over-the-top lyrics. But that's no reason to like
him. At its best, as on the kind-of-sweet "Mama (Loves a Crackhead)," Who
Needs Actions translates its vibrant, in-ya-face beats and lyrics into
big, ballsy entertainment almost on par with Eminem's debut. But much
of the CD is pretty unpleasant, with bleak music that sounds less than
innovative and a load of self-important shock rhymes that try too damn
hard, as on the murder ballad "Sick 2 Def," which rhymes "cum in a
biscuit" with "sadistic" and "raping a corpse" with "genital warts."
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Track List
- Kidz
- Sick 2 Def
- No Good
- Dead and Buried
- Mama
- Charmaine
- I Don't Hate You
- Everyday
- Tough Love
- Where Ya From ?
- No More Eatin'
- Missin' Links
- Couldn't Get Along
- Who Needs Actions When You Got Words
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