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Track List
01) Cricketz (feat. Tyga)
02) You're a Jerk
03) Dot Com
04) Colorz
05) Way 2 Many Chickz
06) Turnt
07) Bunz (feat. Kydd-SB)
08) Cashmere
09) So Dope
10) Tie Me Down
11) New Girl (feat. D&D)
12) No More (feat. O.N.E.)
13) One Night
01) Cricketz (feat. Tyga)
02) You're a Jerk
03) Dot Com
04) Colorz
05) Way 2 Many Chickz
06) Turnt
07) Bunz (feat. Kydd-SB)
08) Cashmere
09) So Dope
10) Tie Me Down
11) New Girl (feat. D&D)
12) No More (feat. O.N.E.)
13) One Night
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3:24
3:10
2:49
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3:55
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2010
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Skinny Jeanz and a Mic was the debut studio album by jerkin' crew and rap duo New Boyz, Legacy and Ben J. It was released on September 15, 2009, via Shotty Music, Asylum Records and Warner Bros. Records. The album was heavily influenced by jerkin' music. It received generally positive reviews, being called the sixth best album of 2009 by The New York Times. The album was released after the duo brought jerkin' to national attention with their viral hit "You're a Jerk", which later became a commercial success and the first single off their album. The second single "Tie Me Down", featuring Ray J, was released and also was successful. The album debuted at fifty-six on the Billboard 200, and at number twelve on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and eight on Top Rap Albums. The album was produced by New Boyz member, Legacy, and also contributions from producers, Jay-Nari and DJ Felli Fel. The album was originally scheduled for release, August 18, 2009, but plans were changed for unknown reasons. Legacy received main production credits on the album. In an interview with Format Magazine he said, "I started making beats because I didn’t want everybody else’s sound. We wanted our own sound. So, I had no choice but to make my own beats to get that sound." In an interview with Ozone Magazine, when asked about their music and the revival of the "newer west" movement, Ben J stated, "Everything is becoming positive out here. People are growing out of that old mentality. Rapping about gangs ain’t really what it’s about out here now. Everybody is having fun." In the same interview, Legacy said, "I think music like ours is coming from people being tired of the same ol’ thing. People thought they had to bang to be the cool kid but now the smart kid is the cool kid. People being creative are the people coming up right now."
In an interview with HipHopDX, Legacy said the album was, "[It’s] pretty much like the lifestyle and the culture of the typical California teenager put in[to] music. It’s going to surprise a lot of people, because a lot of people think we just make the jerk songs [and] dance music." According to Legacy, only two tracks on the album are jerking songs. He also stated that the album is about a lot of different topics, and was quick to point out that most of them were pre-"Jerk" stating they were fifteen songs in before 'You're a Jerk'. Most of the producers on the album were mostly unknown, local producers. Legacy said, "We have no big producers on our album. All of our producers are like kids our age. Everything compliments each other, because the style and the music are so new to the game."
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In some ways, New Boyz go out of their way to offend. Because before two minutes of their debut has elapsed, they’ve woken up in bed with a “fat” girl, worried they (lawks!) “might have said I love you” and offered an explanation. They only did “it” and said “it” because they were drunk. “Baby, I’m hungover,” they wail. Keats they ain’t.
But in the grand scheme of morning-after pop confessionals, this sort of cheekiness isn’t rare, and there are worse offenders. New Boyz could be forgiven because they are so very, very young – they know not what they do. But mainly we excuse them because Skinny Jeanz and a Mic isn’t your average, shiny RnB release. It’s about ‘Jerk’, and ‘The Reject’ and purple hair. And you might need some context to see why those things might matter.
Jerk is something of a niche concern as far as hip hop trends go – though with all those zeds in the song titles, the noisy artwork and a preponderance of comedy facial expressions, it does seem primed for the box marked ‘novelty’. But like hyphy and crunk before it, it has a pedigree. One, the music: LA-born, stripped-down, party music – produced on cheap software at home by young people, for young people. And two, the dancing: loose-limbed, floor-dipping moves that look like a slightly dafter, slacker take on break-dancing. The signature move is a reverse Running Man called – you guessed it – The Reject.
But unlike pop pigeonholes before it, Jerk’s popularity hasn’t suffered from hip hop’s usual East Coast / West Coast rivalries. Teens nationwide have engaged with the genre. And the requisite dance battles, outré female rappers out-saucing the men, makeshift YouTube videos and sheer lack of bling make it fresh, attracting the likes of Diplo (on producing detail here). Track two You’re a Jerk was the first, bona fide US Jerk hit, with its tinny electro and shouty sparseness breaking through on local radio before storming the charts. But there’ll be more.
Taken as a whole, the willfully blasé delivery, preponderance of Auto-Tune and sheer mindlessness of the party ‘bangers’ on Skinny Jeanz and a Mic could mean New Boyz are at the more polished end of the spectrum; we might be missing some of Jerk’s defining, unvarnished charm. But overall their sheer chutzpah wins you over – and with its day-glo tongue wedged so very firmly in its cheek, Skinny Jeanz and a Mic is hard to resist.
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Skinny Jeanz and a Mic was the debut studio album by jerkin' crew and rap duo New Boyz, Legacy and Ben J. It was released on September 15, 2009, via Shotty Music, Asylum Records and Warner Bros. Records. The album was heavily influenced by jerkin' music. It received generally positive reviews, being called the sixth best album of 2009 by The New York Times. The album was released after the duo brought jerkin' to national attention with their viral hit "You're a Jerk", which later became a commercial success and the first single off their album. The second single "Tie Me Down", featuring Ray J, was released and also was successful. The album debuted at fifty-six on the Billboard 200, and at number twelve on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and eight on Top Rap Albums. The album was produced by New Boyz member, Legacy, and also contributions from producers, Jay-Nari and DJ Felli Fel. The album was originally scheduled for release, August 18, 2009, but plans were changed for unknown reasons. Legacy received main production credits on the album. In an interview with Format Magazine he said, "I started making beats because I didn’t want everybody else’s sound. We wanted our own sound. So, I had no choice but to make my own beats to get that sound." In an interview with Ozone Magazine, when asked about their music and the revival of the "newer west" movement, Ben J stated, "Everything is becoming positive out here. People are growing out of that old mentality. Rapping about gangs ain’t really what it’s about out here now. Everybody is having fun." In the same interview, Legacy said, "I think music like ours is coming from people being tired of the same ol’ thing. People thought they had to bang to be the cool kid but now the smart kid is the cool kid. People being creative are the people coming up right now."
In an interview with HipHopDX, Legacy said the album was, "[It’s] pretty much like the lifestyle and the culture of the typical California teenager put in[to] music. It’s going to surprise a lot of people, because a lot of people think we just make the jerk songs [and] dance music." According to Legacy, only two tracks on the album are jerking songs. He also stated that the album is about a lot of different topics, and was quick to point out that most of them were pre-"Jerk" stating they were fifteen songs in before 'You're a Jerk'. Most of the producers on the album were mostly unknown, local producers. Legacy said, "We have no big producers on our album. All of our producers are like kids our age. Everything compliments each other, because the style and the music are so new to the game."
User Album Review
In some ways, New Boyz go out of their way to offend. Because before two minutes of their debut has elapsed, they’ve woken up in bed with a “fat” girl, worried they (lawks!) “might have said I love you” and offered an explanation. They only did “it” and said “it” because they were drunk. “Baby, I’m hungover,” they wail. Keats they ain’t.
But in the grand scheme of morning-after pop confessionals, this sort of cheekiness isn’t rare, and there are worse offenders. New Boyz could be forgiven because they are so very, very young – they know not what they do. But mainly we excuse them because Skinny Jeanz and a Mic isn’t your average, shiny RnB release. It’s about ‘Jerk’, and ‘The Reject’ and purple hair. And you might need some context to see why those things might matter.
Jerk is something of a niche concern as far as hip hop trends go – though with all those zeds in the song titles, the noisy artwork and a preponderance of comedy facial expressions, it does seem primed for the box marked ‘novelty’. But like hyphy and crunk before it, it has a pedigree. One, the music: LA-born, stripped-down, party music – produced on cheap software at home by young people, for young people. And two, the dancing: loose-limbed, floor-dipping moves that look like a slightly dafter, slacker take on break-dancing. The signature move is a reverse Running Man called – you guessed it – The Reject.
But unlike pop pigeonholes before it, Jerk’s popularity hasn’t suffered from hip hop’s usual East Coast / West Coast rivalries. Teens nationwide have engaged with the genre. And the requisite dance battles, outré female rappers out-saucing the men, makeshift YouTube videos and sheer lack of bling make it fresh, attracting the likes of Diplo (on producing detail here). Track two You’re a Jerk was the first, bona fide US Jerk hit, with its tinny electro and shouty sparseness breaking through on local radio before storming the charts. But there’ll be more.
Taken as a whole, the willfully blasé delivery, preponderance of Auto-Tune and sheer mindlessness of the party ‘bangers’ on Skinny Jeanz and a Mic could mean New Boyz are at the more polished end of the spectrum; we might be missing some of Jerk’s defining, unvarnished charm. But overall their sheer chutzpah wins you over – and with its day-glo tongue wedged so very firmly in its cheek, Skinny Jeanz and a Mic is hard to resist.
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