The Midnight Beast approach rap as fans first, and their second album is less parody than pastiche. They don't make fun of the genre, necessarily; they just have a little fun with it, spitting verses about old people who watch pornography and kids who make "bass face." And their own beats command plenty of ecstatic grimaces too: "Sweet Sixteen," for one, puts a Lesley Gore sample over trap drums and then lets the track play out, joke-free, simply because it's hot enough.