FLYING OUT'S #6 ALBUM OF 2022
This sat on the shelf for a hot minute before folks started to realise how scorching hot it is. Now, it's up with the best of the year, and for good reason. Perfect production, lyrically on fire, and with fantastic features, this rules.
Cheat Codes is Danger Mouse’s first hip-hop album in seventeen years - since his 2005 DangerDOOM collaboration with the late, great MF DOOM - and Black Thought’s only full length collaboration beyond his pioneering music in The Roots. On No Gold Teeth, Danger Mouse’s soulful, freewheeling production serves as the perfect backdrop to Black Thought’s metronomic, pin-sharp and chorus-free lyrical deluge. The result is a dizzying, thrilling opening single from two of contemporary music’s most respected artists.
The natural chemistry between Brian (Danger Mouse) and Tariq (Black Thought) comes through in the ease with which the artist and listener move through this album. Moreover, it’s an album untethered to any genre, era or trend — uncategorizeable and timeless. It is the sound of the pair observing their own culture and asking questions they still may not have the answers to.
Brian Burton (AKA one half of Gnarls Barkley, Broken Bells, and Karen O and Danger Mouse — and universally regarded as the most versatile producer in modern music) has found a formidable new partner in the incomparably prolific rapper Tariq Trotter - rapper, MC and co-founder of The Roots, film and theater actor, producer, writer or, as Hypebeast sums up: "one of the best lyricists in hip-hop history."
Tracklist
1. Sometimes
2. Cheat Codes
3. The Darkest Part [ft. Raekwon and Kid Sister]
4. No Gold Teeth
5. Because [ft. Joey Bada$$, Russ and Dylan Cartlidge]
6. Belize [ft. MF Doom]
7. Aquamarine [ft. Michael Kiwanuka]
8. Identical Deaths
9. Strangers [ft. A$AP Rocky and Run the Jewels]
10. Close to Famous
11. Saltwater [ft. Conway the Machine]
12. Voilas & Lupitas
Please note that Cheat Codes (Vinyl LP) is currently not in store but is with our local supplier.
Most of the time it takes around 2-5 days from the time you place the order for the item to arrive here and be sent out but it can take longer if there are any delays.