{"id":8075,"date":"2013-11-26T16:10:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8075"},"modified":"2013-11-26T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:10:30","slug":"madchild-lawn-mower-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/11\/26\/madchild-lawn-mower-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Madchild &#8211; Lawn Mower Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/11\/26\/madchild-lawn-mower-man\/lawnmowermanmad\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8076\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8076\" alt=\"Lawnmowermanmad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lawnmowermanmad-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b id=\"docs-internal-guid-1159fde1-9528-55c2-f85a-22aa63c95ef1\"><br \/>\n<\/b>Since his Juno-nominated <em>Dope Sick<\/em> rose Madchild from debilitating drug addiction to sobriety and widespread solo success, the Swollen Members frontman has been busy concocting a slew of new material.<!--more--> His latest release, <em>Lawn Mower Man<\/em>, is a continuation of his \u201ccomeback\u201d that began with 2012\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/10\/16\/madchild-dopesick\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dope Sick<\/em><\/a>, and features familiar Battle Axe production from Rob the Viking and C-Lance. Guest appearances are limited to Prevail \u2013 the other vocal half of Swollen Members \u2013 Langley, BC singer Sophia Danai and Bishop Lamont. Lead-off track \u201cCrazy\u201d effectively sets the tone as Mad raps \u201cTrust me, you don\u2019t wanna fuck with me \/ I\u2019m sucker free \/ Stab you with your mother\u2019s cutlery, I\u2019m not your cup of tea\u201d over a heavy-hitting, cellar-dwelling beat. Other verses on \u201cTiger Style\u201d and \u201cUnderground King\u201d are less inspired, and feel like outtakes for <em>Dope Sick<\/em>, but Mad regains focus on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=avBvj2dIt8M\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cIt Gets Better,\u201d<\/a> bringing listeners closer to the man behind his Battle Axe Warrior persona. <em>Lawn Mower Man<\/em> is a competent hip hop record, but largely feels rushed with shallow production and recycled hi-hats and samples. Mad Child might do best to wait more than a few months before dropping his next full-length disc. (Suburban Noize Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/madchild57.com\" target=\"_blank\">madchild57.com<\/a>)<b id=\"docs-internal-guid-1159fde1-9528-55c2-f85a-22aa63c95ef1\"> Harrison Samphir<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since his Juno-nominated Dope Sick rose Madchild from debilitating drug addiction to sobriety and widespread solo success, the Swollen Members frontman has been busy concocting a slew of new material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[434,579],"class_list":["post-8075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-hip-hop","tag-madchild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}