the last exit

“If you can measure a posse cut’s merit by its number of quotables, Craig Mack’s “Flava in Ya Ear Remix” was basically the boom-bap Bartlett’s.
“The Last Huzzah! (Remix)” is that robotic George Jetson futuristic shit come to life. Hip-hop for the “meta” era, inter-textual and absurd as an episode of Community. The video gently parodies the Puffy-led cut, with “Bad Boy” chants substituted for those of eXquire hollering “Breast Milk, you made my day.”
Despot weighs Lucky Charms on a scale and flings cereal aimlessly. A back-up dancer in a cop uniform lazily writhes like she got lost on the way to a Robert Palmer video shoot.
Kool A.D. is “translating Don Killuminati into Spanish” and is “Immortal Technique” #obnoxious. Heems is “the worst rapper on the track, third coolest.” Danny Brown jaws at competitors, his rhyme style highly evolved beyond the bob and weave jabs of ‘94. His jokes are practically hyperlinked.
El-P essentially invented snarling skeptic rap, so he’s in perfect stride, snapping about jangled numerologies and political references to the black smoke of riot-scarred London. While eXquire closes like Busta, grabbing a chunk of belly and bragging that he still “takes his shirt off like Nelly.” This is how you do things when you want to be around next year.” 
—Jeff Weiss