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FiggkiddWhat Is Figgkidd? Unda K9/SonyBMG What is Figgkidd? Well, apart from being someone who's chosen a rather odd stage name, he appears to be a Sydney-based rapper now well on the way to making a name for himself in America, and (if the artwork on the booklet and CD is any indication) also someone with something of a teddy bear fetish. 'What Is Figgkidd?' is his debut album, and shows him to be a fairly talented (if not entirely original) artist. Quite often, he sounds uncannily like Eminem (and like Slim Shady, periodically uses his raps as a chance to bag his enemies), and it becomes obvious early on that the voice he raps with isn't his real one. His natural accent creeps into the recording every now and again, however, first appearing in a rather silly skit track that gets the whole show going, and again using it in the final song to deliver the line, "I can rap like this, but this sounds whack"; sadly, he's right. Like most hip-hop artists, Figgkidd peppers his raps with profanities and braggadocio and proves himself a skilled wordsmith. In Fairytale Master he also reveals himself to have quite a twisted imagination, that song seeing him rather sacrilegiously assassinating the characters of many beloved fairytale figures by speculating on what they really get up to. Other notable entries include the bizarre yet catchy Breathe/Clap (which has lots of hand claps and frog-related noises(!) going on in the background), the melancholic What It Is (about how little the rap business pays), and the rock-and-roll-tinged 19. He doesn't appear to have had any trouble enlisting the help of his peers in the making of this album, for over half the songs feature contributions from other hip-hop artists. Figgkidd seems a promising artist, and for his debut album, this is certainly a decent piece of work. I'm just not sure what I think about that name...  |
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