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Download:
Lexington + Whatevski – Customer Appreciation Day CD zip file
Release Date:
October 14, 2008
Tracklisting:
1. Crackheads On Bikes
2. Picture of You
3. Good People (Nato mix) featuring Touch
4. 19 Trillion Miles featuring Planit
5. Swanky Flashy Hoes featuring Hollohan aka G.O.D., B-Money & Ryan Crack the Dirt Dogg
6. Dick In Ya Drink featuring Hollohan aka G.O.D. & Mr Grim
7. Back When
8. Dead And Famous featuring Planit
9. Single File featuring Lingo
10. 5 Min to Kill a Family of 4 featuring Hollohan aka G.O.D.
11. Sum Alberta Spit featuring Touch
12. The Machine
13. Your Kid’s Got My Eyes
14. Rolemodel
15. Movin On Up (interlude)
16. Big City
17. Good People (Whatevski Mix) featuring Touch
18. Preggers Can’t Be Choosers radio ad
Bio:
Lexington and Whatevski are the stuff that magic is made of; they represent the coming-of-age story of modern male heterosexual life-partners: the epic drama of two boys from opposite ends of the world coming together in the redneck capital of Canada (Calgary, AB) to create something spectacular. They are the Jamaican bobsled team of rap (only instead of Jamaica, Simon Lexington came up in and around Winnipeg, MB and Evgeniy Whatevski is a landed Russian immigrant. And instead of bobsledding, these weird white kids stick to rapping their asses off over the dopest beats this side of Siberia).
Lexington and Whatevski’s first notable release was in 2004 with Calgary’s pioneer indie-rap super group, Jonny Sootentai (Lexington, Whatevski, Lingo, Phasma and producer/dj Aptitude). This release would introduce a small, local audience to the indie, anarchist rap flavor that would soon distinguish Lex and Evski from the rest of the hip hop world. With the Sootentai’s, they were able to develop an acumen for the live performance, showing signs of the energy and ridiculousness that they would later become notorious for. Among the countless shows played in the prairie region of Canada, the Sootentais did opening spots for Juno Award winning Swollen Members, Sweatshop Union, Mcenroe, toured with Juno Award winning Leroy Brown and other local celebrity status acts not worth mentioning.
Though highly influenced by the hip hop classics as well as the emerging alt-rap acts like Jedi Mind Tricks, Atmosphere, and Company Flow, Lexington and Whatevski’s sound took the best of all worlds and their songs went in a direction of darkness, comedy and obscenity. They create highly artistic conceptual masterpieces that consistently bubble with creative energy, originality and entertainment value. And such is the content of Lexington and Whatevski’s 2005 release, Over It: the first album to drop on their collectively owned record label called Olive Hour Records. Within a year of this release, the secret was beginning to spread. The self-directed, self-produced and independently financed public spectacle video in which Lexington and Whatevski perform in random places (and get thrown out of random places) in Calgary received thousands of views on Youtube and other video sites and continues to entertain. Word of mouth is the driving force behind the growing army of fans that continue to pledge allegiance to Lexington and Whatevski’s charming, tongue-in-cheek flavor that is now the staple of the Canadian prairies hip hop sound.
Press:
“Little did I know this album would change my perception of hip hop. Honestly, I haven’t heard anything like this before and it really blew me away.” * rated: 10/10 – Legendary Hip Hop
link: http://legendaryhiphop.blogspot.com/2009/02/review-lexington-and-whatevski-customer.html
“Listening to these beasts is much like watching a B-movie. And like some B-movies, there are traces of true artistry around the corners.” – Exclaim Magazine
link: http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/HipHop/lexington_whatevski-customer_appreciation
“Au programme de ce second album, violence, obscénités et humour, le tout déclamé avec une énergie rare et une bonne dose de cynisme et de perspicacité.” – Fake Four Real
