| Spank Rock and Benny Blanco Are... "Bangers & Cash" | ||||
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| Released | October 9, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2007 | |||
| Genre | Alternative hip hop, dirty rap | |||
| Length | 17:12 | |||
| Label | Downtown Records | |||
| Producer | Benny Blanco | |||
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Spank Rock and Benny Blanco Are... "Bangers &Cash" is an EP by Philadelphian Virginian alternative hip hop group Spank Rock and record producer Benny Blanco. The EP follows Spank Rock's 2006 debut album YoYoYoYoYo . The album was released on October 9,2007.
Spank Rock's frontman,Naeem Juwan,met Blanco when he was interning for the late Disco D. [1] Blanco proposed the idea of creating an EP that was based on 2 Live Crew samples. [2] Juwan was initially concerned that "it might be cheesy",but he continued that the EP "actually turned out to be really fun and I'm really proud of it." [1] Like 2 Live Crew and Spank Rock's material,the EP included hypersexual lyrical content. Spank Rock and Benny Blanco co-wrote every song on Bangers &Cash together. It was described by Juwan as "just like club banger music,party music." [1]
The EP's cover art is also a homage to 2 Live Crew,mimicking their As Nasty As They Wanna Be cover. [3]
The Bangers &Cash was ultimately released on October 9,2007. Spank Rock and Benny Blanco also released videos for "Pu$$y","B-O-O-T-A-Y",and "Loose". [4] [5]
Rolling Stone slated the album. The publication described the EP as "raunchy,megahorny hip-hop,[...] knowingly ridiculous and over-the-top",and stated that "Spank Rock seems to be on autopilot for most of the album,and neither his one-track mind nor Blanco's high-energy,low-payoff music produces anything worth going back to." [6]
All tracks written by Naeem Juwan and Benjamin Levin.
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