The Lonely Island's sophomore album "Turtleneck & Chain" is a record full of disgusting raps about their dicks and having sexual relations with their friends' mothers, but the beats and hilarious lyrics really make up for the immaturity. In their last album "Incredibad," they were obsessed with the drink "Santana" champagne. Now they are obsessed with turtleneck sweaters and "thin ass chains."
The Lonely Island is composed of three SNL writers Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer. The group is like the Beastie Boys; white and awkward looking at first, but when hear the album, you realize that they can actually rap. The album is full of catchy hip hop songs featuring Nicki Minaj, Beck, Michael Bolton, Snoop Dogg, Akon, Rihanna, Santigold, and of course, Justin Timberlake.
The album immediately begins with the group rapping about how small and useless their dicks are in the song "We're Back." The immature lyrics themselves wouldn't work without highly-produced beats and their competent white boy flow.
In "I Just Had Sex," Andy and Jorma sing about having sex and how great it is, but once they get into detail you find out that their experience wasn't all that great. (she kept looking at her watch/ doesn't matter had sex/ but I cried the whole time/ doesn't matter had sex/ I think she might have been a racist/ doesn't matter had sex/ she put a bag on my head/ still counts!).
Another hit off the album, "The Creep", the group shows us a dance that they made up called "The Creep", which you can use it to "make friends at the ATM" or "When you see a country peach laying out on the beach." The song features famous female rapper Nicki Minaj and director John Waters who reminds you "Don't forget to smile." In the infamous "Motherlover" Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake team up for the second time after the huge "Dick In A Box" SNL success. They decide for mothers day, to sleep with one another's mothers. Although it does sound extremely wrong, the song is actually really funny and, like "I Just Had Sex", the song is one of those songs that you can't get out of your head so you end up singing along to it all day. The song "Turtleneck & Chain" pretty much sums the whole album up with fresh beats and of course who else but Snoop Dogg to explain their love for turtlenecks and a thin ass chain while sipping on a light beer.
This album surprised me with how funny it was, because I have been watching the past SNL Digital Shorts, (which is where most of these songs had their debut) and there haven't been a lot of extremely funny bits. The album really does work as a whole. I first heard this record on my last day of school and I was watching all the videos that come with the album and couldn't keep myself from laughing. This record is extremely funny and was worth half of the money on my iTunes gift card.
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