Paul Mardles 

Professor Green: Growing Up in Public review – art doesn’t reflect life in a humdrum third album

Professor Green’s third album rarely rises above the humdrum, writes Paul Mardles
  
  

Professor Green 2014 press image from Stoked PR
Professor Green … an absence of drama on his third album Can't Dance Without You. Photograph: /PR

Having been banned from driving and robbed outside his home, Professor Green has endured an eventful time since 2011’s At Your Inconvenience. Such drama is in short supply on the rapper’s humdrum third album, though, the tone of which is set by Can’t Dance Without You, a garish hymn to clubbing, ecstasy and casual sex that samples the Shamen’s Ebeneezer Goode. Elsewhere, the title track addresses being mugged but, as is true of far too many of the songs, Professor Green’s whiny rap and the tired chart-house riff detract from the power of the narrative.

 

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