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BrokeNCYDE’s latest release leaves listener’s hoping for the album’s “death.”

If Lil’ Wayne, 3OH!3, and Bullet for My Valentine had a baby, and that
baby spit up, it would be BrokeNCYDE. Formed in 2006 in Albuquerque, New
Mexico, this crunk-pop group came together to create music that reflected how
they felt “broken inside” after past relationships. BrokeNCYDE is just another band of white boys covering up
their lack of rapping talent with techno backbeats. To their credit, though,
they did stay true to themselves.

Their newest album, Will Never
Die,
would leave anyone feeling broken inside. It’s not so much the unoriginal lyrics like

“You can be my girlfriend/ and I can be your boyfriend/Together we can
be friends/We can kick it on the weekend/”in their song “My Gurl” that make
their album such a mess. It is more the screaming and high-pitched, incoherent
voices of lead singers Steven Loke and David Gallegos, that makes it nearly impossible
to appreciate any part of any song.

Lack of creativity in Will Never Die contributes to an overall
unappealing album. The song “Goose Gogglez” and “U Ain’t Crunk,” which happen
to be placed one after the other on the album, sound so much alike with their
obnoxious staccato backbeat and ear-piercing screams that the only way to tell
them apart is that “U Ain’t Crunk” causes one to cringe slightly more because
the screaming lasts longer.

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The album also appeared unfinished
because it contained skits in-between certain tracks that would provide a dialogue
to the next song. The skit “T.M.H.T.S” before the song “Teach Me How to Scream”
was a one-minute instructional session, accompanied by piano. “First, walk up
to your microphone. Second, open your mouth. Third, wait for the proper time,
and let it all out.” Such sarcasm makes the skit sound like a joke, but the
album contains three so-called “skits,” one more expletive and unimportant as
the next. Maybe these skits will become part of BrokeNCYDE’s signature, finally
giving them some originality, if it can even be called that.

BrokeNCYDE’s album Will Never Die ends with “Sunshine,” but
if any weather should be associated with this band, it should be a tornado.
With chaotic backbeats, singing that resembles shrieking, and clich? lyrics,
this band is nothing but a disaster. 

1 star out of 5

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