Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics

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UTFO: Lethal [Select, 1987]
They got no principles, so they head for the street, where rap albums sell--with its skeezer, its hard-on, and its dozens, even "Let's Get It On" isn't radio-ready. At their most B-boy, they tempt me to organize a boycott of my fellow "suckers" and "fags," but they do it with flair, and though the quotation marks around "Lethal" and "Diss" will be widely misconstrued, they satisfy my admittedly flexible irony requirement. Not only that, "The Ride" is a dick rap that burns rubber, and "Burning Bed" is a better half's revenge. B+