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Inhale C-4 $$$$$

Inhale C-4 $$$$$
On the top and bottom of the cover is the name of the BEBETUNE$ project in black behind a white background. On the top is the mixtape title hiding behind "BEBE". In the middle of the cover, three photos of chucky dolls on the city streets are on the top left, bottom left and bottom right, while a picture of James Ferraro in a black suit, sunglasses and green dollar signs symbols in front of him is on the top right
Mixtape by BEBETUNE$
Released December 14, 2011
Genre Southern hip hop
Length 50:39
Producer James Ferraro
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Fact 3.5/5
Pitchfork 3.8/10
Tiny Mix Tapes 4/5 stars

Inhale C-4 $$$$$ is a mixtape of BEBETUNE$, a hip hop and R&B project of American electronic musician James Ferraro. It was released by Ferraro for free download and streaming on December 14, 2011. Parodying the tropes of contemporary American hip hop music and its culture, Inhale C-4 $$$$$ marks the first time in Ferraro's career that he went for a hip hop style. Reviews of the mixtape from music journalists were mostly positive upon release, and it landed in the top 20 of Tiny Mix Tapes' list of the best releases of 2012.

Inhale C-4 $$$$$ marks the first time in Ferraro's career that he went for a hip hop style. Critic Jonathan Dean suggested that this direction was Ferraro's acknowledgement of his mixed race. Categorized by writer Rory Gibb as a southern hip hop mixtape and by Impose magazine as crunk, it parodies all of the tropes of modern American hip hop music; production-wise, there is trap music percussion, preset trance music-style synthesizer patches, auto-tune and a BEBETUNE$ production tag. Gibb compared its hi-hat rhythms to that of the footwork and trap works of Vex'd member Kuedo. There are some songs that even lack any sort of audio mixing or mastering, which is a satire on the little amount of quality control in making and releasing mixtapes. The track "Li$$tening with my Eyezzz" features mumbled rapping from a character stage-named “Yung Cea$er" about being at a club, and the soft rapping on "Nero Cea$er/Anti Christ" spoofs the self-loathing lines present in the works of Drake and The Weeknd. Despite the mixtape's hip hop direction, Gibb, writing for The Quietus, still noted it to have the same "glossy sounds, dense networks of samples and a convincingly web-age sheen" as Far Side Virtual (2011).


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