The Beatnuts

Related Content

• Hood Internet: Show Preview
  May 23, 2012
• Before Hip-Hop Squares: Eight Links Between Rap Music and TV Game Shows
  May 22, 2012
• Rock the Bells 2012 Lineup: Deltron 3030, E-40, and Too $hort Rep the Bay
  May 16, 2012
• Best of Coachella Weekend Two: Sunday, April 22
  April 23, 2012
• Insurgent Hip-Hop: Kreayshawn, Lil B, and Bay Area Rappers Throw Out the Rules
  August 3, 2011

More About

• Hip-Hop and Rap
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Music Newsletter: Keep your thumb on the local music scene with music features, additional online music listings and show picks. We'll also send special ticket offers and music promotions available only to our Music Newsletter subscribers.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

These frat boys of East Coast rap return to the scene with their sixth album, a mixture of funky productions and juvenile rhymes. Not much has changed for Psycho Les and Juju since their early '90s sleepers like "Lick the P*ssy" and "Here's a Drink" -- they're still mainly concerned with ladies, liquor, and letting loose at fake MCs. The album's single, "Hot," blazes with a heavy beat and some serious horns, but for a group that prides itself on excellent production, about half of the album falls flat. "U Nomsayin" gets an extra punch from Roc-A-Fella MC Freeway, and "Confused Rappers," featuring Rahzel, is an example of classic 'Nuts (i.e., clever lyrics over an uptempo instrumental). Still, Milk Me is an average LP with some standout tracks, which could be seen as an accomplishment in this era of lackluster hip hop, but fans of the Queens duo expect -- and deserve -- something more.