Yea Big & Kid Static: Duck Mother Fuckers!

Yea Big & Kid Static is perhaps one of the few hip-hop groups where the beats get more attention than the rhymes, and that's probably fair. Kid Static's sci-fi narratives and action setpiece plotlines are fun and exciting, and when you compare him with someone like 50 Cent, for example, he's practically a breath of fresh air.

But it's Yea Big's glitchy, paranoid and perpetually in motion back drop that makes Static's lines work. In Duck Mother Fuckers!, Big's nervous soundtrack is driving the song more than any chase sequence Static can manage. While some of the group's other songs switch styles repeatedly during their brief runtimes, Duck's big transformation is introducing a lazy tambourine mid-way through the song, a slight detail that somehow seems to change the energy altogether.

They clearly aren't taking themselves too seriously, but they're serious about their modest ambitions: This is music thats sole, expressed purpose is to be entertaining, to lighten the usually dark environment of modern hip-hop, to make people dance. And that's a goal that's easy to get behind.

Yea Big & Kid Static will be appearing at the Vernors Room this friday, April 3rd. More information at the Crofoot.



Download: Yea Big & Kid Static: Duck Mother Fuckers!