"Truth" | ||||
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Single by Chiddy Bang | ||||
from the album The Swelly Express | ||||
Released | 17 May 2010 | |||
Format | Digital download, 12" Vinyl | |||
Genre | Hip hop, indie | |||
Length | 2:55 | |||
Label | EMI | |||
Producer(s) | Xaphoon Jones | |||
Chiddy Bang singles chronology | ||||
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"Truth" is the second single released from American band Chiddy Bang. It was released in the United Kingdom on 17 May 2010 as a Digital Download and the CD Single was released the next day. The single samples Passion Pit's "Better Things" from the Chunk of Change EP that was released in 2008.
Fraser McAlpine of BBC Chart Blog gave the song a positive review stating:
"Is anybody there?" shouts a worried Chiddy, while something slowish - namely Passion Pit's 'Better Things' - plays far too fast in the background, "I mean I hope somebody out there can hear this right here. Just listen..."
It's a curiously insecure way to start an upbeat pop song, donchathink? It's more the sort of thing you'd expect from a guerilla radio station, broadcasting from the middle of the end of the world, or a last transmission from an abandoned spaceship, set to music, because it's in a sci-fi musical. A hip hop sci-fi musical, no less.
And it raises an interesting philosophical question: if a rapper busts rhymes in the forest and there's no-one there to hear him, can he still boast?.