No Face - Wake Your Daughter Up (CD)

All Music Guide

A hardcore rap group that dabbled in new jack swing, No Face had an underground hit in 1990 with Wake Your Daughter Up. In contrast to social and political commentators like Ice-T, Public Enemy and KRS-One, No Face set out to not to educate or inform, but strictly to entertain. There's nothing groundbreaking or innovative about the group's sexually explicit lyrics -- some blues artists had been offering raunchy lyrics 60 years earlier. But strictly as a party album, it succeeds. While the X-rated lyrics brought to mind the 2 Live Crew -- which joins forces with No Face on "Fake Hair Wearin' Bitch" -- the group's slower style of rapping and RB-ish approach to production are very much its own. No Face switches from rappers to singers on the engaging new jack swing number "Half," a commentary on being financially assaulted after a divorce.

- Alex Henderson, All Music Guide