Search - Slimm Calhoun, Andre 3000 :: It's Ok

The Dungeon Family Gonna Ride

Melvin Pena | 10/18/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

""It's OK," the first single from Slimm Calhoun's album, "The Skinny," promises an excellent and adventurous full recording. "It's OK" features an exuberant, effusive chorus, complete with a synthesized trumpet fanfare. The song itself relates Calhoun's attempt to steady all those females who he assumes simply cannot abide another moment without his 'bedside manner,' if you will. Andre from the greatest rap group out there to-day, OutKast, joins his Dungeon Family co-hort Calhoun, and expresses the view of these woeful women, who want a man "who can make a girl feel like Alice in Wonderland". Andre's vocals are interestingly altered into a kind of playful, Chipmunk-esque style. Along with the chorus tagline, "keep callin' me, beggin' me, and blowin' me up,"(his pager, no doubt) Calhoun wants to let everyone out there that he can sympathize, but that he is only one man, and these things take time. There are only so many people he can assist at once. The misogynist tone which dominates most of to-day's contemporary rap scene, from the West Coast to the East Coast, is not missing from the Dirty South. However, the threatening misogyny of most rap is sublimated in Calhoun's "It's OK," turning more into a celebration of liberated sexual energies. Overall, "It's OK" is a fantastic single, and one which should be featured at parties for some time to come."