Scaring The Hoes, Vol. 1 – JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown
In their first highly-anticipated collaborative album, JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown rap about Twitter haters and more.
By Rogan Isbell
“Scaring the hoes” is a term used on the Internet to describe an activity that may scare away women for its atypical nature. So rappers JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown teamed up to make an album that exemplifies just that.
The production is very dense and layered with heavy bass, distorted sound effects, and more. It’s too loud and messy at times and could have been better mixed with the vocals, and it certainly would scare the average listener.
JPEGMAFIA and Brown seem to have a lot of fun in their performances, but Brown seems to be a secondary artist on most of the songs thrown on at the beginning or the end. There are many fun moments, but the album doesn’t equally play to their strengths.
Despite the record being fun, there are some cringe moments. JPEGMAFIA can’t stop rapping about negative Twitter interactions and calling his haters “incels” or “crackers.” He just sounds very bitter in certain parts without much substance.
Furthermore, two grown men making albums appealing to Internet memes and a niche part of the music community is somewhat corny. Something can be fun without being edgy or making jokes that could age poorly.
Despite some groan-worthy moments and technical issues, this is a mostly fun, innovative project that should satisfy fans of both. They advertised this as volume 1 of a supposed series, so hopefully volume 2 features more Danny Brown and more-inspired writing from JPEGMAFIA.