info: LFO's single "Summer Girls" is a smashray to please even the most devout evangelical aficionado of the genre. The ingredients are all there, unsullied by even the slightest deviation from the formula: midtempo hip hop beat, some no-edge rapping, is that live guitar playing or a sample?, record scratching on repeat, and a chorus from central casting. It IS summer girls. But the Lyte Funky Ones, as they are known more formally, up the ante with a new addition (pun intended): lyrics slammed to brim with non-sequitur REFERENCES. These guys have the best references. Yes, they lean so heavily on nostalgia that the whole thing might collapse under its own sugary sticky slippery weight, but the flow and verse-chorus-verseness of it all just keeps the whole thing going. Haters will hate the easy Florida-man nihilism that keeps LFO faking it 'till they make it (they did make it), but to those that open their hearts to the References, there is a free feeling, like a bird on a wire.

LFO had a much less acknowledged but arguably superior repeat with "Life is good". The concept of random References is mined to its inevitable posi conclusion: "Life is good. Life is great. Life is unbelievable! Life is hard. Life is cruel. Life is so beautiful!" And yeah, they threw a family friendly DMXesque agro-guest rap acknowledging the triteness of it all, but that doesn't change a goddamn thing. Live your life.