Melba, by The Nope

Melba

by The Nope

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1.	Y'all Hear 02:48	buy track
2.	Yeah! 02:37	buy track
3.	Where the chorus goes 02:58	buy track
4.	Nopefolk goh (ft. ishkan) 02:06	buy track
5.	It's because I don't have not much 01:50	buy track
6.	Balls 'n Brains 02:35	buy track
7.	Gonna Do 01:58	buy track
8.	Let's do lunch 02:01	buy track
9.	Dada 02:26	buy track
10.	Rain all day 02:15	buy track
11.	We play the music 02:16	buy track
12.	In LA 02:21	buy track
13.	Give it bop 02:01	buy track
14.	You think, you're wrong 02:24	buy track
15.	Gorilla guerilla go realla! 01:45	buy track
16.	To go (let's go) 02:25	buy track
17.	We do appreciate it 03:40	buy track
18.	Walk around 02:00	buy track
19.	Ocean Clit 02:03	buy track
20.	Sound like treach 02:31	buy track
21.	Gas 04:26	buy track

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In an era where most hip-hop artists claim to 'break new ground' or 'challenge the boundaries', yet more often than not only deliver on diluted retreads of stale rap clichés, Canadian/American duo The Nope (Psy of the Oddities and Moka Only) offer a different approach: they drop all pretence of treading new waters. As The Nope emcee Psy shares, "We're exactly the same as every other music group you've ever heard before. So, prepare for absolute boredom." For once, a rapper tells the truth.

The Nope is at best reactionary, their subversiveness a mere academic contrivance. Purported Dadaists, Psy and Moka Only claim to be "anti-everything," crafting songs about "whatever we feel at the time." And with tracks like "Mickey D's", an opus on eating at the imperialist Golden Arches chain three days in a row while recording, or another entitled "Chant'n'Sing", where Moka confides that, after airing woman troubles, "I can understand why some of yall want to pee on 'em man," the claim of speaking what is on their mind in unguarded fashion is not to be questioned.

Yet, I don't know if it is to be lauded either, even if it makes troubled RnB crooners sympathetic. Sometimes naked honesty can amount to a case ‘When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong’, rather than a nuanced artistic declaration. Though, in fairness, how a listener views the duo depends on whether he or she takes The Nope serious. The Nope creates feel-good nonsense, mood-music hearkening to a bygone era when acts like Ultra Mag and Y’all So Stupid had a rightful place. And Psy and Moka's talents shine, regardless of whether their gifts are realised on material of any depth or significance.

Instead, Moka's soulful off-kilter production and Psy and Moka's playful lyricism and nimble rhyme-schemes recall the creative lightheartedness of early-to-mid 90s hip hop, except without Jurassic 5 or Ugly Duckling-like anachronism.

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released December 8, 2009

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