| Spank Rock and Benny Blanco Are... "Bangers & Cash" | |||||
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| EP by Spank Rock and Benny Blanco | |||||
| Released | October 9, 2007 | ||||
| Recorded | 2007 | ||||
| Genre | Alternative hip hop | ||||
| Length | 17:12 | ||||
| Label | Downtown Records | ||||
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Spank Rock and Benny Blanco Are... "Bangers & Cash" is an EP by Philadelphian Virginian alternative hip hop group Spank Rock and record producer Benny Blanco. The EP follows Spank Rock's 2006 debut album YoYoYoYoYo. The album was released on October 9, 2007.
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Spank Rock's frontman, Naeem Juwan, met Blanco when he was interning for the late Disco D.[1] Blanco proposed the idea of creating an EP that was based on 2 Live Crew samples.[2] Juwan was initially concerned that "it might be cheesy", but he continued that the EP "actually turned out to be really fun and I'm really proud of it."[1] Like 2 Live Crew and Spank Rock's material, the EP included hypersexual lyrical content. Spank Rock and Benny Blanco co-wrote every song on Bangers & Cash together. It was described by Juwan as "just like club banger music, party music."[1]
The EP's cover art is also a homage to 2 Live Crew, mimicking their As Nasty As They Wanna Be cover.[3]
The Bangers & Cash was ultimately released on October 9, 2007. Spank Rock and Benny Blanco also released videos for "Pu$$y", "B-O-O-T-A-Y", and "Loose".[4][5]
Rolling Stone slated the album. The publication described the EP as "raunchy, megahorny hip-hop, [...] knowingly ridiculous and over-the-top", and stated that "Spank Rock seems to be on autopilot for most of the album, and neither his one-track mind nor Blanco's high-energy, low-payoff music produces anything worth going back to."[6]
All tracks written by Naeem Juwan and Benjamin Levin.