Dirt Nasty tells us: “Alrighty people…. It’s been long enough. You want a new Dirt Nasty album? You got it. I went back to my roots on this one, ditching the electro club genre and making music for driving through the hood and even the suburbs. It’s raw, dirty, nasty, but at the same time clean. Don’t ask me how I did it…. I don’t even know my damn self…. Just enjoy what I like to call…..PALATIAL.”

Directed by Nicholaus Goossen. Featuring: Brother Marquis (2 Live Crew) and Charlie Sheen. From The FREE EP – “Extended Package”, hitting September 8th.

New collaborative single between King Fantastic and the rapping alter-ego of Simon Rex. Listen and/or download above.

Dirt Nasty’s lead single from Nasty As I Wanna Be, directed by Nicholaus Goosen.

Dirt Nasty is the rapping alter-ego of actor and all-around-man-about-town Simon Rex. He made his debut in 2008 with his self titled album, a loose knit collection of songs that found him rapping about sex, celebrity, and the mean streets of Hollywood. His persona was that of a washed up actor using hip-hop as his last chance to get famous, humorously channeling artists like Kool Keith and Too Short with his off the wall rhyme style.

With his second album, Nasty As I Wanna Be, he looks to be a bit more serious about blowing up, enlisting an all star cast of collaborators to help him flesh out the album. He starts things off perfectly with the Alchemist produced title track, finding him in his element, rhyming dirty over slow rolling 808 bass. “Boombox” follows, another throwback banger that finds him playing Radio Raheem, waxing poetically about the stereo on his shoulder. He executes another great track with “Milk, Milk Lemonade”, a sort of electro-pop track that finds him, Too $hort, Warren G cold gettin’ disgusting with the filthy food metaphors. This leads right into the seedy “Motel Room”, as he flawlessly executes his sex style.

But on the second half of the album, things begin to go awry, as he attempts to grab the pop audience. Ironically, “So L.A.” – which blasts the twenty-two year old party girls of the scene – panders directly to them. “Turn It Up” fails miserably, while “Lookin’ For A Nasty Girl” (already) interpolates a hook from Lady Gaga’s “Love Game”. Meanwhile, the cheesy “Miami Nights” (feat. Ke$ha) just crosses too far over.

However, the LMFAO produced “I Can’t Dance” hits the nail on the head, forming a new genre of music in the process (Jewish House). While this collaboration will knock in the clubs and help carry the album throughout the year, we only wish there were a few more tracks like this on the album. Still, when he slides back into his groove on songs like “Fuck Me I’m Famous” and “Canal Street”, we gets shades of the old Dirt Nasty we all know and love.

Simon Rex’s quest for identity continues on Nasty As I Wanna Be. He does successfully create a few excellent cuts throughout the album, and does attempt to shake the one dimensional stigma he’s been branded with in the past. Only problem is these attempts at going pop sometimes fall flat, when ultimately, Nasty is what he wants to be.

Dirt Nasty’s “As Nasty As I Wanna Be” is in stores this coming Tuesday. Preorder packages just went up at www.dirtnastymusic.com, which includes the Deluxe Regalia package, as seen above for $75. The album features LMFAO, Too Short, Warren G, Ke$ha, Beardo, Andre Legacy, Andy Milonakis, and Benji Hughes. There are also less palatial packages available, which include:

CD + DIGITAL ALBUM + STICKER PACK + T-SHIRT $38 (+S&H)
DIGITAL ALBUM + T-SHIRT $30 (+S&H)
EXCLUSIVE T-SHIRT $20 (+S&H)
DIGITAL ALBUM $10

After showing off the Alchemist produced title track, Dirt Nasty delivers the second single from his Nasty As I Wanna Be LP, due out next week. This one features LMFAO and celebrates his lack of coordination.

LISTEN: Dirt Nasty – “I Can’t Dance (feat. LMFAO)”

Dirt Nasty delivers perhaps the most profane performance in Las Vegas history, with “Sleep Around” and “1980″. We’re sure the Bellagio suits are losing their minds right about now.

You either get Dirt Nasty or you don’t. We think he’s hilarious. Case in point is his latest track, “Sandwiches”, which pretty much sums up his filthy, vile persona in a electro-hop club track. Added bonus is a real live rap battle with Dirt Nasty and Andy Milonakis vs. Frank Stacks & L Money. That’s how they do it in the streets, yo.

LISTEN: Dillon Francis + Dirt Nasty – “Sandwiches” (MP3)

Dillon Francis + Dirt Nasty – “Sandwiches” (MP3)

Dirt Nasty prepares for his upcoming Nasty As I Wanna Be CD+DVD with the all new Stretch Armstrong helmed mixtape, produced in conjunction with ALife. Here the animal lover runs through his favorite white-rap hits. Grab it here.

In the case of Dirt Nasty, it’s a fluke. Simon Rex has a long list of strikes on his ghetto pass, as his resume includes things like MTV veejay, model, comedian, and “not-a-rapper-but-I-played-one-in-Scary-Movie”; all of which point to “stay far away” from his self-titled hip-hop record. However Dirt Nasty has got one thing going for him that most other rappers seem to forget – originality.

He presents himself as a washed-up celebrity that never got his due, and as a result, makes for some very interesting commentary and background for the record. He introduces himself on “Droppin’ Names” – a sort of “Hi, My Name Is…” type of song that takes pot shots at various Hollywood stars. Not so much a lyrical superstar as Eminem, Dirt Nasty’s talent lies in his hilarity, which comes through on this song, with lines like “I’m horny for beaver…. / so give me a call, Sigourney Weaver,” and other quips. His breakthrough hit is much more original however, with “1980”, a glorious nod to the hot pink and turquoise, coke-stained eighties, which finds the kid from Oakland spitting humorous, bouncy rhymes about the greatest decade ever, over a beat reminiscent of Dead Prez’s “Hip-Hop” (although surely a different message.) The rhymes are strung together, sometimes forced and poorly delivered, but that’s definitely a part of it’s charm.

His sense of humor is self-depreciating, as he rhymes about things like being addicted to coke (“Can’t Get Down”) and his abnormally small penis (“Baby Dick” – but later refuted on “My Dick” with Mickey Avalon & Andre Legacy) – both elementary joke topics, but he takes it a step further, embarking on some uncharted territories. “Animal Lover”, for instance, will have the PETA people in shit-fit, as he explains his unadulterated love for the creatures of mother nature. Without spoiling it, it involves getting married to a cow and what it feels like to do it with a snake. “Mountain Man” is another off the wall track, where Dirt raps with a southern accent (white guy southern, not black guy southern) about the joys of inbreeding and living on a farm. These things must be heard to be believed.

We do get to see a bit of the “real” Dirt Nasty later in the album, such as on “Too Short Homage”, which is just that, and “True Hollywood Story”, where he doesn’t really poke fun at the fact that his acting career never took off. While this isn’t going to change the face of hip-hop, nor will he one day be crowned as one of the best to ever hold a mic, Dirt Nasty is definitely one of the most original and interesting rappers to come along in a while. The album’s production sounds low budget – as he prefers boom bap to flossy keyboard synth – but stick a major label recording contract in his hand and give him some expensive beats, and the mainstream would eat this right up.  – D.T. Swinga