Power & Passion

Power & Passion is the debut EP by American rapper Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire.[1] It was released on Universal Republic Records, as his major record label debut, on November 6, 2012.[2] It includes production from Dot da Genius, Harry Fraud, El-P, SpaceGhostPurrp, and Blue Sky Black Death,[3] as well as guest appearances from Gucci Mane and Goldie Glo.[4] A music video was released for "The Message Pt. 1 & 2".[5][6]

Power & Passion
EP by
Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire
ReleasedNovember 6, 2012 (2012-11-06)
GenreHip hop
Length18:17
LabelUniversal Republic
Producer
Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire chronology
The Man in the High Castle
(2012)		 Power & Passion
(2012)		 Kismet
(2013)

Promotion

Prior to the release of Power & Passion, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire released "Position of Passion" as a prelude to the project.[7] The song uses the beat of 50 Cent's song "Position of Power".[8]

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic60/100[9]
Review scores
SourceRating
Consequence of SoundD[10]
HipHopDX3.5/5[11]
Pitchfork5.4/10[12]
Spin7/10[13]
XXLL[14]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Power & Passion received an average score of 60, based on 5 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[9]

Jesse Fairfax of HipHopDX gave the EP a 3.5 out of 5, commenting that "Previously proving capable of awareness and self-scrutiny, Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire is dedicated to regression this go round with Power & Passion, pandering to the notion that entertainment can be drawn from sheer recklessness."[11] Jonah Bromwich of Pitchfork gave the EP a 5.4 out of 10, calling it "a vulgar, dissonant listen" and "wildly inconsistent on a bar-by-bar basis."[12] Brandon Soderberg of Spin gave the EP a 7 out of 10, describing the beats as "a chillwave-meets-Bomb Squad sound full of Morricone moans, ringing Black Sabbath riffs, and from-a-black-hole bass."[13]

Track listing
No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Cari Zalioni"Dot da Genius3:02
2."Cheap Whores & Champagne"Harry Fraud3:32
3."Telephuck" (featuring Gucci Mane)El-P3:51
4."Supa Speaks (Interlude)" 1:26
5."Aggin Laer" (featuring Goldie Glo)SpaceGhostPurrp3:12
6."The Message Pt. 1 & 2"Blue Sky Black Death3:12
gollark: It allocates memory and doesn't consider it a side effect.
gollark: I didn't do any horrible homoglyph hacks with THAT.
gollark: It uses the function, yes.
gollark: So, I finished that to highly dubious demand. I'd like to know how #11 and such work.
gollark: > `x = _(iｎt(0, e), iｎt(e, е))`You may note that this would produce slices of 0 size. However, one of the `e`s is a homoglyph; it contains `2 * e`.`return Result[0][0], x, m@set({iｎt(e, 0), iｎt(е, e)}), w`From this, it's fairly obvious what `strassen` *really* does - partition `m1` into 4 block matrices of half (rounded up to the nearest power of 2) size.> `E = typing(lookup[2])`I forgot what this is meant to contain. It probably isn't important.> `def exponentiate(m1, m2):`This is the actual multiplication bit.> `if m1.n == 1: return Mаtrix([[m1.bigData[0] * m2.bigData[0]]])`Recursion base case. 1-sized matrices are merely multiplied scalarly.> `aa, ab, ac, ad = strassen(m1)`> `аa, аb, аc, аd = strassen(m2)`More use of homoglyph confusion here. The matrices are quartered.> `m = m1.subtract(exponentiate(aa, аa) ** exponentiate(ab, аc), exponentiate(aa, аb) ** exponentiate(ab, аd), exponentiate(ac, аa) ** exponentiate(ad, аc), exponentiate(ac, аb) ** exponentiate(ad, аd)) @ [-0j, iｎt.abs(m2.n * 3, m1.n)]`This does matrix multiplication in an inefficient *recursive* way; the Strassen algorithm could save one of eight multiplications here, which is more efficient (on big matrices). It also removes the zero padding.> `m = exponentiate(Mаtrix(m1), Mаtrix(m2)) @ (0j * math.sin(math.asin(math.sin(math.asin(math.sin(math.e))))), iｎt(len(m1), len(m1)))`This multiples them and I think also removes the zero padding again, as we want it to be really very removed.> `i += 1`This was added as a counter used to ensure that it was usably performant during development.> `math.factorial = math.sinh`Unfortunately, Python's factorial function has really rather restrictive size limits.> `for row in range(m.n):`This converts back into the 2D array format.> `for performance in sorted(dir(gc)): getattr(gc, performance)()`Do random fun things to the GC.

References
  1. Letkemann, Jessica (October 21, 2012). "CMJ 2012's Top 5 Bad Band Names: Good Music?". Billboard. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  2. Martins, Chris (October 11, 2012). "Mr MFN eXquire Brings Out Gucci Mane on 'Telephuck,' From His New 'Passion & Power' EP". Spin. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  3. Martin, Andrew (October 17, 2012). "Premiere: Mr. MFN eXquire's "Power & Passion" Artwork and Tracklisting". Complex. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  4. Fuertes-Knight, Jo (November 6, 2012). "Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire: The Message Pt. 1 and 2". Vice. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  5. Breihan, Tom (November 16, 2012). "Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire – "The Message Pt. 1 & 2" Video". Stereogum. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
  6. Young, Alex (November 17, 2012). "Video: Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire The Message Pt. 1 & 2". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  7. Fitzmaurice, Larry (April 2, 2012). "Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire "Position of Passion"". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  8. Yates, Kieran (August 29, 2012). "Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire: "Position Of Passion" (Video)". Vice. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  9. "Power & Passion (EP) by Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  10. Coplan, Chris (November 9, 2012). "Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire – Power & Passion EP". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  11. Fairfax, Jesse (November 9, 2012). "Mr. MFN eXquire - Power & Passion". HipHopDX. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  12. Bromwich, Jonah (November 13, 2012). "Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire: Power and Passion". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  13. Soderberg, Brandon (November 5, 2012). "Mr. MFN eXquire. 'Power and Passion EP' (Universal Republic)". Spin. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  14. Diep, Eric (November 8, 2012). "Mr. MFN eXquire, Power & Passion EP Review". XXL. Archived from the original on December 16, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
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