(G.O.O.D./Stomp)

And the second

Dusk is the dark side of the G.O.O.D. Morning, G.O.O.D. Night project; it opens with Too Knight and more of Yusef’s tortured wordplay. Though he’s in similar territory he’s no Saul Williams and every clever moment is followed by a pause as if he’s stepping back to say, ‘Did you see what I did there?’ He over-enunciates and over-emphasises his way through Hit It Again and lines like, “He is I and him is me / what we share is called chemistry / and it is sweet as the embassy.” Underneath there’s some glittering R&B, but those lyrics are a distraction. Common gets in on the act too in Magic Man (which also features Kanye West and John Legend), delivering the line, “She’ll let any Dave cop a feel” with a straight face. Yusef still takes the cake with awful rhymes like “So into each other, but Voltron is not what we tryin’ to form”, though he comes out the other side, so bad it’s good again with, “You may call her a queen / it’s still gonna take a cheque to mate her”. Bravo, sir. That’s from So Pop U Layer, which bizarrely introduces stadium rock into the mix and forces some soul crooner to sing a title so awkward even Fergie would be ashamed of it.

**

JODY MACGREGOR

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