Hell Hath No Fury

by Clipse

Overview

It took Clipse over four years to get their second proper album on the shelves. As they were eager to discuss, the lag wasn't their fault. Well documented in print and on the Web, the oil spills and trap doors placed in front of the Thornton brothers were numerous. However, they weren't completely handcuffed. They released a pair of popular mixtapes that only intensified the anticipation for the official follow-up to Lord Willin'. (A talk with Bill Withers might give them an idea of how the music industry can truly paralyze an artist.) If any of the trip-ups played a role in the end result, they could be considered blessings in disguise. Hell Hath No Fury is a lean, furious, cold-blooded album that is vividly to-the-point. As with Lord Willin', all the production work is credited to the Neptunes, though Chad Hugo's name appears nowhere in the credits. A couple exceptions aside, these are some of the sparsest, most off-kilter Neptunes beats. They prod, hiss, dart, and thump -- ideal backdrops to Pusha T's and Malice's blunt-force, if occasionally knotty, rhymes. "Ride Around Shining" is baroque boom-bap, nothing more than a neck-snapping beat, Richard Pryor-sounding grunts, and cascading harp filigrees. "Trill" grinds and slides under a swarm of hungry cyborg mosquitoes. "Mr. Me Too" is nearly as minimal, a slinking bump. Lyrically, coke dealing dominates the subject matter more on this set than on the debut. Clipse survey their operation and reap its rewards, from easy-to-understand quips like "Pyrex stirrers turned into Cavalli furs" to the relatively mind-bending "If you're looking for a couple roosters in the duffle, keep the 'hood screaming 'Cock-a-doodle-doo,' motherf*ckers." Apart from specific elements of the "Mind Playing Tricks on Me"-quoting "Nightmares," as well as a couple other brief instances, the rhymes are guardedly self-congratulatory, like the MCs are wiping the gains in the haters' faces, albeit with the nagging sense that it could all blow up in an instant. The whole thing, including the club-oriented tracks, is magnetically grim. ~ Andy Kellman

Product Details

Release Date:	09/23/2014
Label:	Get On Down
UPC:	0664425130416
Rank:	20595

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Clipse   Primary Artist
AB   Primary Artist
Slim Thug   Primary Artist,Lead Vocals,Featured Artist
Bilal   Primary Artist,Lead Vocals,Featured Artist
Pharrell Williams   Primary Artist,Lead Vocals,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
AB Luva   Primary Artist
Rosco P. Coldchain   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Re-Up Gang   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
Ab-Liva   Featured Artist,Lead Vocals
Malice   Lead Vocals
Pusha T   Lead Vocals
Gene Thornton   Lead Vocals
Sandman   Lead Vocals
Terrence Thornton   Lead Vocals

Technical Credits

The Neptunes   Audio Production,Producer
Slim Thug   Composer
Chris Gehringer   Mastering
S. Thomas   Composer
Pharrell Williams   Composer
Gene Thornton   Composer
Re-Up Gang   Performer
Stayve Thomas   Composer
Brad Jordan   Composer
Jonathan Mannion   Photography
Bilal Oliver   Composer
Mark Pitts   A&R
T. Gozney Thornton   Composer
Doug King   Composer
Courtney Walter   Design,Art Direction
Hart Gunther   Mixing Engineer,Mixing Assistant,Assistant Engineer
Andrew Coleman   Mixing,Engineer,Mixing Engineer
A.F. Porter   Composer
Leticia Hilliard   A&R
D.L. King   Composer
Rennard East   Composer
Terrence Thornton   Composer
Amin Porter   Composer
Charles Patterson   Composer