# Expose Negative > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Expose_Negative > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Expose_Negative.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expose_Negative > Source revision: 1339269943 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Expose Negative | type = Studio | artist = [Oddjobs](/source/Oddjobs) | cover = File:Expose_Negative_cover.jpeg | alt = | released = February 22, 2005 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = [Alternative hip-hop](/source/Alternative_hip-hop) | length = 46:06 | label = Raptivism | producer = | prev_title = [The Shopkeeper's Wife](/source/The_Shopkeeper's_Wife) | prev_year =2003 | next_title = | next_year = }} '''''Expose Negative''''' is the fifth and final album by Minnesota [alternative hip-hop](/source/alternative_hip-hop) group [Oddjobs](/source/Oddjobs). It was released in 2005 on New York label Raptivism Records. ==History== The Oddjobs quintet had moved from Minnesota to New York three and a half years before releasing ''Expose Negative'', during which they had enjoyed their critical and commercial peak with their album ''Drums''. But by 2004, the group's label, Third Ear, went out of business,{{cite magazine |last= |first= |date=2004-11-20 |title=News To Us |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O_4RyUZdhgoC&pg=PA3 |magazine=[CMJ New Music Report](/source/CMJ) |location= |publisher=CMJ Network, Inc. |access-date= 2023-05-29 |page=3 |issue=890}} and the band wound up moving to Berkeley, California, to work on a new album. "It was kind of a dark period" for the band, rapper Nomi (Mario Demira) wrote later,{{cite book |editor-last1=Villegas |editor-first1=Mark R. |editor-last2=Kuttin |editor-first2=Kandi |editor-last3=Labrador |editor-first3=Roderick N. |last=De Mira |first=Mario "Nomi" |date=2014 |title=Empire of Funk : Hip Hop and Representation in Filipina/o America |url=https://archive.org/details/empireoffunkhiph0000unse/page/86/mode/2up |location=United States of America |publisher=Cognella Academic Publishing |page= |isbn=9781626612839 |chapter=Traveling Man }} and led to the group's breakup.{{cite news |last= Riemenschneider |first=Chris |date= February 18, 2005 |title=Oddjobs' Odd Rebirth |url= |work=[Star Tribune](/source/Star_Tribune) |location=[Minneapolis–Saint Paul](/source/Minneapolis%E2%80%93Saint_Paul) |page= 4E }} The musical visions of the group's two producers, Deetalx (Devon Callahan) and Anatomy (Stephen Lewis), had begun to diverge before the last Oddjobs record, ''Expose Negative''. Eventually, this grew into two entirely separate projects. ''Expose Negative'' became entirely a Deetalx production, while Anatomy worked instead on what would become the debut self-titled record by [Kill the Vultures](/source/Kill_the_Vultures). Rapper Crescent Moon (Alexei Casselle) told an interviewer in 2006, "Oddjobs was always very producer-based, so Steve and Devon had a very large role in the directions of the songs we were making. I think when it came down to it, it was really the two of them having different creative opinions."{{cite web|url=https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/2872/|title=Kill the Vultures: Meet the pleasure seekers|work=[Twin Cities Daily Planet](/source/Twin_Cities_Daily_Planet)|first=Steve|last=McPherson|date=2006-11-09}} In an interview with Hiphopcore, Anatomy reflected that "I wanted to make something that was really minimalist, trashy and noisy; but [Deetalx] wanted to make a more high quality hip-hop album. So we had different ideas."{{cite web |url=https://www.hiphopcore.net/interviews/130%7Ceng-kill-the-vultures.html |title=Kill the Vultures |last=Phara |first= |date=July 2009 |website=Hiphopcore |publisher= |access-date=2023-05-29}} The creative differences proved insoluble, and the group broke up in 2004. ''Expose Negative'' came out less than a year later, by which time Deetalx and Nomi had moved on to a new project, Power Struggle.{{cite news |last= Riemenschneider |first=Chris |date= June 17, 2005 |title= Down for the upbeat |url= |work=[Star Tribune](/source/Star_Tribune) |location=[Minneapolis–Saint Paul](/source/Minneapolis%E2%80%93Saint_Paul) |page=5E }} ==Reception== French music critic Sylvain Bertot said that ''Expose Negative'' pointed to the direction that Power Struggle would take on its debut album ''Arson at the Petting Factory'': "It was still a draft, an attempt, and it was probably not the direction that everyone wanted to take within Oddjobs. It was also a little too monolithic. ... It was a little less accomplished, it was a little less good."{{cite web |url= https://www.fakeforreal.net/index.php/post/2006/ODDJOBS-Expose-Negative |title= ODDJOBS - Expose Negative |last=Bertot |first=Sylvain |date=May 3, 2006 |website= Fake For Real |publisher= |access-date=2023-07-08}} Waymon Tinsdale of the magazine ''Roctober'' gave a succinct one-sentence review: "Should be called Blowjobs, because this sucks."{{cite magazine |last= Tinsdale |first=Waymon |date=2005 |title=Flamin' Waymon Tinsdale, King of Reviewland: Kill the Vultures |url=https://archive.org/details/roctober-40/page/86/mode/2up |magazine=Roctober |issue= 40 |location=[Chicago](/source/Chicago) |publisher= |access-date= 2023-07-01 | pages=83–86}} == Track listing == {{Track listing | collapsed = |title1= En Pocket|length1= 2:22 |title2= Minus 3|length2= 2:27 |title3= Smoke|length3= 3:36 |title4= The Alibi (Dekalb And Vanderbilt)|length4= 3:58 |title5= Rather See You...Never|length5= 2:35 |title6= Lynlake|length6= 3:37 |title7= Minus 2 - Freestyle|length7= 3:01 |title8= Self-Taught|length8= 4:46 |title9= 7th Street Entry - Minus 3|length9= 7:03 |title10= Dear Parasite|length10= 3:08 |title11= Bloody Knuckles|length11= 3:36 |title12= Stone Cold|length12= 5:57 }} ==Credits== * Layout, design: Marshall Larada * Lyrics by Advizer, Crescent Moon, Nomi * Mastered by Bruce Templeton * Mixed by Joe Mabbott * Photography: Octavio Dealva, Marshall Larada * Producer: Deetalx, Scratches [Cuts], Recorded By * Written by Adam Waytz, Alexei Moon Casselle, Chaka Mkali, D. Callahan, Mario Demira == References == {{reflist}} ==External links== *{{AllMusic|id=mw0000262304 |title=''Expose Negative''}} *{{Discogs release|689959|Expose Negative|type=album}} {{Oddjobs}} {{Authority control}} Category:2005 albums Category:Oddjobs albums --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Expose Negative](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expose_Negative) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expose_Negative?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.