Track Listing
1. Intro
2. Beatnuts Forever - (featuring Triple Seis/Marlon "Perro" Manson)
3. Muchachacha - (featuring Willie Stubbs/Swinger)
4. I Love It
5. Slam Pit - (featuring Cuban Link/Common)
6. Wild, Wild, What!
7. Look Around - (featuring Dead Prez/Cheryl Pepsii Riley)
8. Cocotaso - (featuring Tony Touch)
9. Monster for Music
10. Spelling Beatnuts With Lil' Donny
11. Puffin' on a Cloud
12. Turn It Out - (featuring Greg Rice)
13. Rated R - (featuring Nogoodus)
14. Who You're F**kin' Wit
15. Story 2000 - (featuring Patrick Blazy)
16. Watch Out Now
17. You're a Clown - (featuring Biz Markie/Tyler Fernandez)
18. Buddah in the Air - (featuring Carl Thomas/Gob Goblin)
19. Se Acabo (It's Over) - (Spanish, featuring M<agic Juan/Swinger)
| Details | | Playing Time: | 63 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Biz Markie, Carl Thomas, Cheryl "Pepsi" Riley, Cheryl "Pepsii" Riley, Common, Cuban Link, Dead Prez, Gob Goblin, Greg Nice, Greg Rice, M<agic Juan, Marlon "Perro" Manson, Nogoodus, Patrick Blazy, Swinger, Tony Tony Touch, Tony Touch, Triple Seis, Tyler Fernandez, Willie Stubbs | | Producer: | The Beatnuts | | Distributor: | RED Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The Beatnuts: Psycho Les, Juju.
Additional personnel includes: Biz Markie, Cheryl "Pepsi" Riley, dead prez, Tony Touch, Carl Thomas, Magic Juan, Triple Seis, Marlon "Perro" Manson, Gob Goblin, Cuban Link, Common, G-Wise (vocals); Alex Kyriazis (drums).
The Beatnuts: Psycho Les, Juju.
Additional personnel: Biz Markie, Common, Greg Nice, Magic Juan, Gob Goblin, Cheryl Pepsi Riley, dead prez, Marlon "Perro" Manson, Cuban Link, Triple Seis, Nogoodus, G-Wise (vocals); Alex Kyriazis (drums).
Personnel: Cheryl Pepsii Riley, Lindsay Robinson, Ariel Harris, Asjai Crutchfield (vocals); Alex Kyriazis (recorder, drums); Steve Stablie (recorder).
Audio Mixers: Chris Conway; Joe Quindy.
Photographers: Chiu Liu; Piotr Sikora.
Unknown Contributor Role: Chris Gehringer.
Juju and Psycho Les, better known as The Beatnuts, have been in the hip-hop game for a long time. In addition to producing this, their fourth album, and the three albums that preceded it, the duo has worked behind the boards for some of rap's biggest names. With A MUSICAL MASSACRE, The Beatnuts return to the underground hip-hop street sound that made "Off the Books" so hype.
A MUSICAL MASSACRE delivers more crossover songs that any of the duo's previous efforts. On "Turn It Out," Les and Juju lay down entertaining rhymes over a tap-dance flavored beat while Greg Nice lends his vocals to the party-inspiring chorus. They collaborate with Terror Squad members Cuban Linx on "Slam Pit" and Triple Seis on "Beatnuts Forever" to add a hardcore flavor to the album. Tracks like "Gimme a Light," which uses the harmonizing sounds of Bad Boy crooner Carl Thomas, and "Watch Out Now," with its catchy whistle melody, give The Beatnuts the club hits that will make listeners want to get up and dance.
The fourth offering from the rambunctious hip-hop junkies the Beatnuts is an all-out assault on the eardrums. This is crack-open-a-party music, with beats that have been chiseled with a Latin feel. Lyrics are rough, rugged, and raunchy. Songs like "Watch Out Now" and "Turn It Out" (featuring Greg Nice) are just plain fun, as close to feel-good music as hardcore hip-hop gets. Other tracks that will satisfy include "Puffin' on a Cloud," "You're a Clown" (featuring Biz Markie), "Buddah in the Air," and the Spanglish headsplitter "Se Acabo." Even the thematic "Look Around," a departure from the Beatnuts' usual hedonistic content, is a pleasant surprise. The true core of the Beatnuts' sound is their fleshy, textured beats, which are dense and dipped in cannabis -- flutes, synthesizers, and various percussion instruments seem to float over and around deep drum machine kicks and snares. Swelling with an eclectic assortment of hypnotic sounds, A Musical Massacre is among 1999's most entertaining hip-hop albums. [A Musical Massacre was also released in a "clean" edition, containing no profanities or vulgarities.] ~ M.F. DiBella
Editorial Reviews
...MUSICAL MASSACRE is razor sharp from beginning to end and is arguably the best work the Beatnuts have assembled....[It] is sure to quench any Hip-Hopper's thirst. - Rating: B
Rap Pages (10/01/1999)
...A MUSICAL MASSACRE is a departure of sorts from the diabolical duo's modus operandi....audibly more in-it-to-win-it than ever, our beloved Beatnuts are still creating unconventional music composed of eclectic sounds...
Vibe (09/01/1999)
4 mics (out of 5) - ...The Beatnuts remain the paragons of paradox: They're cool enough to get crazy and crazy enough to be cool....A MUSICAL MASSACRE is so potent, they should only sell it on bars.
The Source (09/01/1999)
3.5 stars out of 5 - ...raunchy as ever....With all the references to sex and weed, the only things getting massacred here may be sperm counts and brain cells. But the Beatnuts sure do know how to make self-destruction sound funky.
Rolling Stone (10/28/1999)
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