Illegal Attacks

Oh Jesus. This reminds me of the time I got my Dad to rap. Granted, we couldn’t afford an expensive-sounding backbeat – unlike Brown, who puts a brilliant marriage of chugging strings and delicate harp arpeggi utterly to waste. The tooth-grinding rhymes and turgid flow are truly horrendous, and the best part of the song arrives in its closing seconds, when Brown lets guest star Sinéad O’Connor sing without his tuneless groan sprawling all over it.