One line on the otherwise detestable “Black Chick White Guy” alludes to the psychological consequences of aborting a baby, but . . .
The cut tells of two insatiable junior highers who even rendezvous for sex in the school bathroom. Other explicit lyrics involve statutory rape, oral sex and nonstop casual sex–sometimes with multiple partners. The singer consumes drugs and alcohol on “Cowboy,” which includes a derogatory term for Irishmen. Tracks also advertise marijuana, Jim Beam, beer, cognac, pills, mushrooms, wine and malt liquor (a guest rapper says, “Watch me . . . smoke some hash”). Instruments of violence range from shotguns and AK-47s to the artist’s bare hands (“I’ll put my arm around your neck like we’re cool, then I’ll break it”). As for his spiritual condition, arrogant frontman Bob Ritchie rocks, “I’m not born again” and “I’m . . . far from saved.” A line on “Somebody’s Gotta Feel This” advises young fans, “Livin’ in sin is a beautiful thing.” The disc itself boasts a photo of a hoisted middle finger.
Ritchie says he raps about “Chicks and limos and money and hanging out and f— you, I don’t want to go to school. . . . It’s what you want to hear when you’re 15. It’s the attitude.” Devil is 71 minutes of obscene sludge. Don’t let teens hang out with this troubled Kid.
