Track Listing
1. I Shall Return - (featuring KRS-One)
2. Holla Holiday - (featuring Humpty-Hump/Shock G/Clee & John Doe)
3. Wind Me Up - (featuring Humpty-Hump/Esinchill)
4. Mission, The - (featuring Big Punisher/Shock G/Styles & Whateva)
5. Odd Couple - (featuring Humpty-Hump/Biz Markie)
6. Blind Mice - (featuring Shock G/Money B/Humpty-Hump/Black Ty/Rashida/Malinda)
7. Gravy, The - (featuring Humpty-Hump/Truck Turner)
8. Peanut Hakeem - (featuring Peanut/Shock G)
9. Man's Girl - (featuring Shock G/Money B/Clee & Gruve)
10. April Showers - (featuring M Ludlum/Money B/Shock G)
11. Cyber Teeth Tigers - (featuring Shock G/KRS-One)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Big Pun, Big Punisher, Biz Markie, Black Ty, Clee & Gruve, Clee & John Doe, Esinchill, Humpty-Hump, KRS-One, M Ludlum, Malinda, Money B, Peanut, Rashida, Shock G, Styles & Whateva, Truck Turner | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Digital Underground: Edward Ellington "Humpty-Hump" Humphrey III, Shakeem Bocaj V, Peanut Hakeem Anafu Washington (rap vocals).
Additional personnel: KRS One (rap vocals, keyboards, programming); Biz Markie, Big-Pun, Esinchill, Mystik, Clee & John Doe, Styles & Whateva, Truck Turner, Shock Geesus (rap vocals); Kim Morgan, Malia Mamou, Rashida Card, Dina Wright (vocals); The Piano Man, DJ-JZ, Garry Jackson, Shock-Jigga, Genji Siraisi, J. "Funk" Alexander (keyboards, programming); Jonathan Marin (electric bass); JZ, Too Fly, Eli (scratches); Larry Jones, Quinton "Groove" Washington, Luchia "Sykes" Paris, Arron Jackson, Tanya Spurlock, Greg "Gold" Wilson, Mac Mone, John Doe, Jr., Lissette Figueroa (background vocals).
Producers: Shock-G, Gary Katz, DJ-JZ, Truck Turner, KRS One.
Recorded at Infinite Studios, Alameda, California; Battery Studios and Temple Of Soul, New York, New York.
The self-proclaimed "original big-nosed rapper" Humpty-Hump returns with an album that picks up where previous DU recordings left off. Though late-'90s hip-hop came to be typified by ominous soundscapes and aggressive gangsta rap, Humpty and friends were never out to start anything more than a party. Edward Ellington Humphrey III's boisterous, humor-filled style reigns gleefully over sophisticated, hook-filled tracks that make the most of synth textures and funky, highly danceable beats. Humpty gets some help from the likes of KRS-One, Big Pun and many more. Biz Markie plays the dozens with the Big Proboscis on the x-rated, uproarious "The Odd Couple." Nursery rhyme themes are utilized in the service of more adult themes on "Blind Mice." WHO GOT THE GRAVY ain't nothing but a party, but it's one that will last as long as the disc is spinning.
Editorial Reviews
...cameos from KRS-One, Biz Markie, and Big Punisher display an East Coast-West Coast unity that's more block party than political summit. While some beats creak, the end result makes for 1998's most joyous rap album. - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (09/18/1998)
| See an error? Submit a change request |
All rights reserved.
