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Park-Like Setting: DFA
Park-Like Setting with Pip Skid, Birdapres, Cadence Weapon, Evil, Gruf and Satchill Paige: Eight Bars Each
From: Craftsmen [Peanuts and Corn Records, 2005]

Indie raps congest the Internet like phlegm in the throats of AIDS patients - no, it's not pretty. Most cats know a friend of a friend of an indie rapper and that makes purchasing a shitty album inevitable.

Like slacks at a dry cleaners, forgettable indie rap albums are pressed on the daily. Don't fret, Park-Like Setting (PLS) ain't homies and their album is not shameful like skippies on the playground. PLS is made up of John Smith, Yy and Peanuts and Corn CEO, mcenroe.

Don't Fuck Around (DFA) is the PSA that PLS tells their audience and with a production that sounds like Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas people will get the idea. mcenroe is the beat conductor for PLS and he serves up a heavy drum pattern with a gang of flutes, guitars, and synths. Lyrically the three rappers dissolve the indie rap stereotype of hugging trees and disowning brand names - DFA or Smitty will punch your grill!

Eight Bars Each has a collaboration with six other rappers making a total of nine rappers working with eight bars. Pip Skid starts the rappin' relay with lyrical authority before passing the mic to Gruf who raps about trees - OK trees are cool only this time. Satchill Paige kills the mic with lyrics that are not his best, yet flow tight with the eight other rappers. mcenroe loops a piano and plays with the BPM to craft an esoteric production that will take a minute to digest.

Peanuts and Corn Records has been and continues to come up on rap radars - don't sleep on them.