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  The way in which DJ O Show creates a sort of fun, light-hearted hip hop song on "Love & Monogamy" is just not something you hear a lot of in the world of hip hop these days.   This is that type of vibe we may not have really heard in the mainstream since Outkast.  Even though the pacing on "Love & Monogamy" is a bit slower, there are a lot of similar elements which make me think of the song "Give It Up" by Public Enemy, which, yes, back in the day I did buy a cassingle for. First seeing the title "Love & Monogamy" I think this might be a song like Babyface, how it's going to be R&B but also sing about how they'll treat you and only you right.  What unfolds is a lot of the opposite of that because this song is more about someone who has been wronged by both love and monogamy and now doesn't want to get married, as one lyric says: "Not running to the altar with you".   And it really does just feel like th...