MC Brian Wilson Kicks Game At The “Smart Girls”
WMFU has unearthed Brian Wilson’s mothballed rap debut “Smart Girls,” recorded during the golden age of 1989, and even if my head wasn’t already swimming from too much gin last night, I don’t think I’d be able to wrap it around this bizarre attempt at…what? Hip-hop crossover? Contract-breaking? Self-help? (WFMU notes the song was written “during one of Wilson’s supposedly troubled periods when he was under the influence of psychologist Eugene Landy.”)
Produced by Matt Dike–behind the scenes svengali on the Beastie Boys’ Pauls Boutique–“Smart Girls” really is deranged, as much for Wilson’s slackjawed rapping and surfin’ harmonies laid over a late ’80s electro groove as for the hallucinatory way the (really loud!) samples from old Beach Boys songs explode in the mix. Over/under on this (frankly really awful) MP3 becoming a “key influence” for some band that will top bloggers “Best Of 2008” lists: two months.
