Baltimore electro-bass sex rapper Spank Rock (Naeem Juwan) pins glistening, high-end frequencies to his beats like darts bull's-eyed onto stars. His low end gropes and slathers ears until bodies succumb to dance-floor, Soul Train sweat motifs. It's been five years since Spank Rock released the Diplo-endorsed, smash-hitting YoYoYoYoYo. In September, Naeem unleashed Spank Rock's second full-length on his own Bad Blood Records label. It's titled Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar, and while it's it not as "ass-tapping" as YoYoYoYoYo, Naeem is still every bit as playful. Touring with Beck, Björk, and the Beastie Boys has made him more worldly. I'm sure he still taps ass, though.

Everything Is Boring sees Naeem dip into his Baltimore club roots, mixing surly Southern bass into electro-house collages. On "Baby," he shows Prince-type range. The album features production from Boys Noize (using a Can sample), XXXChange, Diplo, Crystal Castles, and Pharrell, and appearances by Santigold and New Orleans bounce music mogul Big Freedia.

Opening track "Ta Da" crinkles out with vinyl snaps and builds into a fuzz-guitar/warble-synth tandem. Naeem is coy-ish, near quiet, relaxed, and cadent. He plays with the rhythm of his breathing almost more than he raps, landing line breaks in unlandable places due to the diaphragm-framed phrases: "Unprecedented, temperament, implemented, infinite inventiveness/Excellent, you just getting into it? My sound clash like a crash, you little accident/Fender bender/Tender is the dollar every minute on the hour/Let it shower you, I'm piling up that Doublemint."

Naeem spoke from New York. I lied to him.

I made up a Spank Rock lie, because of the title of your album. I'm going to read it to you, and you tell me if it passes the Spank Rock lie test. It's about the time you guys were on tour in Florida. You had a day off, so you played miniature golf. The place was near a marsh, and a 19-foot-long Burmese python had gotten onto the course and was sleeping. You thought the snake was part of one of the holes, because there were tons of plaster animals on the course, like a moose and a rhino. Anyway, you banked your golf ball off the python and woke it up. It attacked you, wrapped you up, and you fought it for five hours until the snake police got there. It turned out the python was pregnant, and after they euthanized it you delivered its baby. You named the baby python Carl Jung even though it was a girl, and now you take it with you everywhere. Now Spank Rock tours with a snake handler.

That was a long lie. I think it works, though. I like miniature golf. I say it's a good lie.

It took me like an hour to put together.

And it took you two hours to tell it. But that's dedication. I can get behind it. I try to take care of things that kill me. Like wrap them up in a blanket and carry them away. But that python tried to strangle me. I understand why they had to kill it. Carl Jung is wrapped around my neck right now. She goes with me everywhere.

You charge people $2 to pet it.

Yeah.

You've opened a snake farm.

Yes, I have.

What are you doing?

Eating lunch in Chinatown. New York is crazy. There's almost too much going on here.

What's for lunch?

Python. No, I don't even know. I have to choose.

Talk about your beats.

I love to work with close friends and producers to get beats. I'll get a beat from someone, then embellish it. And mutate it. Some people might think the beat is completed, but I'll take it further. Mess with it every way I can. I think that's where some of the uniqueness might come from. I try to make beats feel alive.

You've got some producers and guests on the album. Which one was your favorite to work with?

I'd have to say Big Freedia. If RuPaul, KRS-One, and Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew had a baby, it would be her. She'd be in that movie Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, the sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. I love Big Freedia. It was so inspiring and difficult to rap next to her.

Where did you record that song?

New Orleans. New Orleans is a great place. I heard a Red Hot Chili Peppers song about New Orleans, and ever since then I wanted to go.

Do you like voodoo?

I like the voodoo, yeah. Where are you from? You don't sound like you're from Seattle.

I'm from Atlanta. Different types of voodoo there.

Three things I love about Atlanta: Outkast, the Clermont Lounge, and the Black Lips.

And Freaknik.

Always. You know, I was in Seattle not too long ago. Went to Big Mario's and had amazing pizza. I know pizza isn't so Seattle, but that is the spot to go.

I highly enjoy Mario's as well. The pesto is automatic. They're way into voodoo at Big Mario's.

That Italian-Seattle voodoo. Okay. My python really liked the pepperoni. I'm looking forward to getting back there.

I'll take you ice-skating. You wanna go? There's a spot I know, in a place called Aurora Ave.

I'll go ice-skating with you. But if this is a date, you have to dress up. None of this grunge shit.

I'll suit it up. We'll speed skate.

I will not speed skate. But if you speed skate in a suit, I'll watch. With my snake.