- MUSIC REVIEWS

"Just Say No" opens Pretty Dark Things with insistence and passion, the emcees and producers performing with urgency. Before a minute has elapsed, however, everything comes to a halt as an angry voice shouts that the underground is stagnant while an admonition against listening to Nelly is leveled at "little girls." If these guys seriously want change, they should realize that pious self-aggrandizement (in the manner of a mainstream hip-hop artist, no less) isn't the best way to encourage it...