Das EFX

Although they could never duplicate the success of this debut album, Das EFX were huge in 1992. Flipping a totally original, hyperactive rhyme style, their first single, "They Want EFX," lit up speakers from coast to coast and made them instant stars. This whole LP is great; check out "Klap Ya Handz" and "Looseys."

Ever since De La Soul rolled back the clock with De la Soul Is Dead last year, rap has edged
away from its obsession with innovation and concentrated instead on recapturing the
simpler pleasures of its old-school classics. From Boogie Down Productions to A Tribe
Called Quest and the Beastie Boys, hip-hop experimentalists are stripping down mixes,
pumping up the bass and passing the mike as if it were 1980 all over again. Now n... More >

Deep funk versus jibber-jabber, dick versus diarrhea ("They Want EFX," "Looseys") (Grade - *)