“Bad Business,” the latest single of Codefendants with N8NOFACE, crashes together industrial beats with an almost screamo rap fitting the scenes from the music video. Codefendants is Fat Mike of NOFX fame, legendary rapper Ceschi Ramos and Get Dead vocalist Sam King and the project thus far has pushed the artists into powerful new territory. “Bad Business” presents scenes from a prison and the skullduggery and violence and stark reality in general of serving time and the system in which one finds oneself. It’s snippets of a particularly dramatic period in the lead character’s life and the thrumming low end and IDM industrial beat has a menace and unsettling quality that explodes into distorted and desperate vocals in both English and Spanish like an Aphex Twin and Death Grips mashup. It’s raw and takes you through the paces of a life you hope you never have to experience but in doing so triggers a brief adrenaline rush like a more straightforward, established genre song often can’t. Watch the video for “Bad Business” on YouTube and follow Codefendants at the links below.
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