I had already downloaded two great songs from this album: “Sons of 3rd Bass” and “The Gas Face”, so I was excited that the rest of the album might be a treasure trove of late-80s white hip-hop goodness. It wasn’t. The rest of the album isn’t bad, it’s just not that great. For starters, there are skits or jokes in between every song. This means that the impressive-looking track listing on the back of the CD is half filler. I can’t wait to unclick those songs on my iTunes so they’ll never make it to my iPod. The tracks that are actual songs are pretty respectable, but the production is a little lazy, and the two rappers never drop any really memorable lines. One thing I kept hearing was when the producer used two different samples in the same song, and they were just a little out of tune with one another. That has always bothered me. (Notorious B.I.G.’s “Unbelieveable” comes to mind.) It’s something you rarely hear today, because the ProTools wizard on hand will fix it with a computer.
The bottom line: this CD is reassuring proof that pre-Eminem white rappers weren’t all lame-ass Vanilla Icicles. There are 3 or 4 solid songs. It’s worth cherry-picking them song-by-song on iTunes.
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