Consumer Guide Album

Kurtis Blow: Deuce [Mercury, 1981]
It's hard to believe six different social observers collaborated on these raps--"Take It to the Bridge," the throwaway boast, is more meaningful than "Starlife," the wishful single--and Kurtis's natural singsong makes me grind my teeth. But the light, spare, clean, catchy, inauthentic funk rings my bell--every cut, every time. B+