★★★★★
Genre snobbery is something that I have been guilty of many times as a hip hop fan. Over the last 10 years I have drifted more and more towards underground hip hop, as mainstream artists implement electronic and dance in to their music creating hybrid artists such as Nicki Minaj and Tinie Tempah. This isn't a bad thing of course, hell I enjoyed the majority of "Pink Friday", but whilst radio stations eat up catchy pop hits (and I will happily listen to if it's on) I would rather have some...
- rapreviews.com
2013-02-26
★★★★★
Chiddy Bang's 2010 breakout hit, "Opposite of Adults", was the epitome of what a pop-rap song should be. The track featured a sample of a recent crossover hit (MGMT's "Kids"), an electro-pop beat, and a hook that was catchy enough to be memorable, but not so much as to become grating with repeated listens. Chiddy's debut LP, Breakfast, attempts to recreate the magic of that pop gem, but, for the most part, fails dismally...
- www.theaureview.com
2012-04-26
★★★★★
Introduced to the world via their infectious hit 'Opposite of Adults', which sampled the MGMT smash 'Kids', Chiddy Bang have since become one of the most sought after duos in music...
- www.gigwise.com
2012-03-12
★★★★★
OK, let's get the obvious out of the way: Chiddy Bang is a terrible name for a hip-hop act. It would be in with a shout of "worst group name of all time" but, well, Rizzle Kicks. 'Breakfast' (again, not exactly inspiring) is the first album proper by Philadelphia's foremost practitioners of indie-fan-friendly hip-hop, but while most such efforts tend to be - how to put this...
- www.nme.com
2012-03-07
★★★★★
When is a debut album not a debut album? When it's a free mixtape. Broken via MySpace, Philadelphia rapper/MC Chidera 'Chiddy' Anamege and his studio-wiz partner Noah 'Xaphoon Jones' Bersin made waves in 2009 with The Swelly Express, whose mix of originals and samples included the irresistible MGMT-raiding Opposite of Adults. The Sufjan Stevens-sampling All Things Go was even better...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2012-03-06
★★★★★
Only old people, like myself, think there's anything truly extraordinary about Chiddy Bang. You see, when I was growing up there was rock and there was hip-hop; you picked a side and you stayed there. And with rare exception, the rock groups those rockers rocked to were white, and the rappers those hip-hop heads nodded their heads to were black. In retrospect it was pretty f**ked up, but that's the way it was, and true change seemed about as likely as the sun suddenly rising from the west...
- www.djbooth.net
2012-03-06
★★★★★
Some omnipotent being somewhere must have decided to kick the respectable fun out of hip-hop, circa early 2000s. Don't get me wrong, there was still a fair share of comedic beat riders, but it's not like you could share your amiable feelings towards them without being shunned eternally. Chiddy Bang aren't a revolution, but it's nice to have a rap long-player that emits a Sunny D-like luminosity whilst still retaining the expected braggadocio...
- www.clashmusic.com
2012-03-06
★★★★★
Earlier this year, Chidera "Chiddy" Anamege, the rapping half of the Philly rap duo Chiddy Bang, broke the Guiness World Record for Longest Freestyle, rapping for more than nine hours straight. And if you want to hear some utterly godawful rapping, pull up a video of Chiddy finishing off that marathon. Or rapping for a 10-minute stretch during hour five. Or 22 minutes into it...
- pitchfork.com
2011-08-08
★★★★★
For a group that released their first mixtape less than two years ago, Chiddy Bang certainly has a lot going for them. For starters, emcee Chiddy (real name Chidera Anamege) recently broke the world record for the longest freestyle, clocking in 9 hours, 18 minutes, and 22 seconds. The lyrics obviously grew repetitive after some time, but it remains an impressive feat nonetheless, and the publicity stunt drew live coverage from MTV and catapulted Chiddy Bang into the national spotlight...
- rapreviews.com
2011-05-30
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