Sex Packets

Welllllllllllll...I was having a pretty good time at this party. I've always liked The Humpty Dance. It's cheeky and fun. The next track talks about verbal rape but ok, I guess that's just some macho posturing and it was 1990 and all. Rhymin' on the Funk, The New Jazz, and Underwater Rimes are fine with their "smooth flow" and "dope rhymes" such as "mobster" and "lobster." (Sincerely! Not sarcasm! The quotes are from the album!) These guys mostly seem silly and fun. And then...the last half of the record felt like I was listening to a joke where I wasn't exactly the punchline but the joke really wasn't meant for my ears (and maybe as a woman, I was punchline-adjacent). I won't say I was offended by all the sex talk --- I'm a feminist killjoy, not a prude --- but I didn't enjoy it and wanted to leave the party. I'll just take The Humpty Dance and go.

Baby the humpty dance is 6 and a half minutes long

Kinda fun, but so incredibly dated. Not really for me. Also I wasn't expecting multiple songs about a sci-fi sexual fetish, but they may have been the highlight of the album.

Weirdly, I really like this. Conceptually, I feel like I would hate a rap concept album about a futuristic sex drug, but the variety and prowess of the rhymes feel futuristic even thirty years later. The production is really clean which is pretty anachronistic in terms of what was popular at the time. There are some duds in the middle of the album, but I like the rest of it enough to give this album a 5. Additionally, the comedic tongue-in-cheekness of the album and the idea of sex packets is very funny and adds to the futuristic tone and themes in the album. The skits aren't overbearing and are used pretty sparingly which is great for its replay-ability. I highly recommend this to anyone who likes hip-hop and conceptual albums. Highlights: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 11, and 13.

This is one of the better 90’s hip hop records on this list, a relief given it lasts 65 minutes. The rhythms seem faster, funkier than most contemporaries here, while the raps are pleasantly old school, slow and cheerful. The content is often nonsense, but knowingly so. Sex Packets’s content is also largely about itself: rappers rapping that what they’re doing on this record is what they’re doing on this record, and that it’s better than the rest: the 90’s hip-hop curse of recursion. This background makes the mini-concept album at the end a gift, though it’s ultimately just a sci-fi variation of some of the horny stuff that came earlier.

There are some really fun moments on this album, and I was really grooving to them. "Humpty Dance" is, as always, a fun funky classic. I like the way they swing on "The Way We Swing" (schwing!). "Rhymin' on the Funk" and "Underwater Rimes" continued the fun and I was really getting into this album. I liked how they seemed to really be having fun with this and not taking themselves too seriously. (Did I wince several times? You bet. It's early 90s hip hop. You're gonna wince.) The rest of it, however, while always funky, didn't feel as fun. "The Danger Zone" seemed out of place. Grim. By the time it got to "Freaks of the Industry" it was a little cringy. And then came the songs about the titular ;-) sex packets that were just...strange and creepy. Anyway, it's hard to rate because I did move to this music and I liked their sound so much. I just don't wanna hear about the underage fetish sex packets anymore.

I knew Humpty, but for the rest of this album, it was a first. It really grabbed my attention…for a while. The funky beats with the silly raps are very 90s danceable. I enjoyed the nostalgia of the sound. The bulk of the sexual themes were mostly uninteresting to me, and after a while it felt like it was too drawn out. I connected with many of the samples, and I enjoyed how DU used them…but then I just wanted to go listen to the sources of the samples.

Like an hour of listening to Fresh Prince, tiresome.

This album isn't that bad. The only problem is that it's a concept album that revolves around being horny. I guess I should've tailored my expectations with a name like Sex Packets but still. The album is mixed great, and it sounds really good; however, I wouldn't ever be able to listen to this casually due to how uncomfortable it makes me. Favorite track: Sex Packets

Unapologetically arrogant and objectifies women and men in a sexual storyline carried throughout the album. I fucking loved it.

Awesome album, with some really good songs

One of the most challenging listens of the project so far, and not in a constructive or positive way. This thing is dripping in enough cheese to give any person a coronary - the bars are consistently corny, creepy, or both, leading to a steady level of baseline cringe that fluctuates from unbearable to uncomfortable. The beats offer no salvation as they opt to instead beat several 1-2 second samples out to 4-7 minutes at a time, meaning the backing tracks are at best stale and at worst infuriating. There’s one track that has some sort of female moaning/vocalizing looping over and over for the entire runtime, and it’s probably the most annoying track I’ve listened to out of nearly 700 albums on this list so far. This is not some nostalgic relic worth revisiting, it’s just plain bad and should remain firmly in the 90s.

Too loooooong. I knew an hour was going to be too long from the moment I clicked on the first song. If they had cut this down, getting rid of some of the weaker songs, to a nice 37 minutes, it'd be a better album. Doesn't age particularly well, at least that's my opinion. Some of this is just stupid and dumbed down. Like the emergence of "MC Blowfish." Give me a break, please. At times it feels like these people just learned that words can rhyme, because they came up with some of the most basic and boring rhymes I can imagine. Couldn't stand it after about 30 minutes of listening.

If I dislike something I can usually understand why other people might like, or why it could be considered a significant album. This though, I have no idea why it's on the list. It's so sleazy, with lyrics about masturbatory fantasies and the degradation of women. Really horrible. Despite there being abums from the 50s on the list, this feels far more out of date than anything I've heard so far. It feels grimy and sticky, so nasty.

One of my favorite rap albums of all time. Uniquely entertaining with a funny flow. Also responsible for helping to launch the career of Tupac. RIP Tupac and Shock G

Great album!

Classic

Such a good album! My favourite so far. Every tune was great and the influence it had on all the hip hop I love is clear. Loved it!

Hey wow, I got this record recommend on the day after its 35th anniversary. Pretty cool. Anyway, this is basically a Parliament-Funkadelic album, replete with futuristic/sci-fi album concept, but with hip-hop added and I’m cool with that, I guess. In fact, they sample Parliament a bunch of times here, which was par for the course in the day. Here a few examples: They sample Parliament’s “Flashlight” on “Rhymin’ on the Funk”). There’s also “Underwater Rimes”, which is pretty close, with similar narration and theme, to Parliament’s 1978 album, “The Motor-Booty Affair” - they sample “Aqua Boogie” from that record here. They sample “Flashlight” again on “The Danger Zone”. “Dr. Funkenstein” and “The Motor-Booty Affair” are sampled on “Sex Packets”…. I’m just gonna stop listing the samples there, because Parliament records really built the foundation for *a lot* of 90’s hip hop and I think maybe having more than one Parliament record on this list would be a good way to really drive home just how integral Parliament’s music is to hip-hop. Well, that, and they sample Flashlight so many times on this record that it’s not worth listing every instance. So, by all means, finish up this record, but maybe also check out “The Motor-Booty Affair” (the title track has one one the greatest bass lines of all time) and “Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome” (to get the full “Flashlight” experience, but also, it might be their best record). Sometimes you’re better off just going straight to the source, you know what I mean?

every song is overly long, and the flows and rhymes are instantly dated and mega corny in that 1990 fresh prince way, but i almost admire the intersection between this album's brazen stupidity and its sex-positivity

Parts of this are charming and I do like some of the beats, but so much of it is corny and inane that I can’t say I enjoyed it all that much. Also these guys seriously needed editors—did Doowutchyalike really have to be 9 minutes long? Best song: Underwater Rimes

A good example of how clownish and directionless hip hop could be in the early 90's. Pervy and dull in equal measure, and so goddam long..

Ayoooo who up listening to Sex Packets in 2022?

A lot of these early 90s hip-hop albums feel like they're here under obligation to give rap more representation, rather than because of the quality. This is one of them. There is absolutely no reason this should be over an hour long, it gets repetitive by the second song. In fact, you could half the runtime on all of these songs and have a superior album. Title track is genuinely good though, only positive thing about the album.

4.5

I only know the Humpty Dance. Let’s see how this goes. “The way we swing” is a great song. I may end up loving this album. Just finished the third track and I really dig it. I love underwater Rimes. This album keeps getting better. It’s a shame it’s only really known for Humpty dance. This is so good. Finished the album. It’s fantastic.

I like my oatmeal lumpy.

If P-Funk was a hip hop group, it would sound like this. So funkin' good.

All right, stop whatcha doin' 'cause I'm about to ruin The image and the style that ya used to I look funny, but, yo, I'm makin' money, see So, yo, world I hope you're ready for me Now gather 'round, I'm the new fool in town And my sound's laid down by the Underground I drink up all the Hennessey ya got on ya shelf So just let me introduce myself My name is Humpty, pronounced with a Umpty Yo, ladies, oh, how I like to funk thee And all the rappers in the top ten Please allow me to bump thee I'm steppin' tall, y'all and just like Humpty Dumpty You're gonna fall when the stereos pump me I like to rhyme, I like my beats funky I'm spunky, I like my oatmeal lumpy I'm sick wit dis, straight gangsta mack But sometimes I get ridiculous I'll eat up all your crackers and your licorice Uh, yo fat girl, come here, are ya ticklish? Yeah, I called ya fat, look at me, I'm skinny It never stopped me from gettin' busy I'm a freak, I like the girls with the boom I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom, I'm crazy Allow me to amaze thee They say I'm ugly but it just don't faze me I'm still gettin' in the girls' pants And I even got my own dance Five stars for getting busy in a burger king bathroom. 5/5

THis was soooo good. Basically all the songs were great. I love funny hip hop. I love Tupac. I love Gutfest '89. My favourite song was proibably 'Doowutchalike' because it's 8 minutes long

its been a bit since i've been generated an album i fell in love with more, i've been given stuff i already like and shit but this is just such a fucking good album its so fucking funny

One of the best New Jack Swing albums made. A classic!

In the late 1980s, Hip-Hop started absorbing more of the history of Black/American Pop Music outside of samples, and started to look to other song stylings, if you will, to inform the rhymes and the flow. Jazz vocal styles started to creep in, which was cool, to hear other approaches to riding a beat, or indeed, float over the beat. And, thank the Gods of the ever ringing Note, MCs and DJs remembered Mr. George and the glorious cosmology Afronauts, Mad Scientists, and in the Jimi Hendrix sci-fi tradition, tales of Atlantis (or Atlanta) the underwater glory of Parliament/Funkadelic, the elemental (periodic abbreviation PF) body-mind groove emanations from beyond space and time. The East Coast De La and Tribe get accolades for their PF inspired wry kaleidoscopic tracks of 70s Gen X pop culture obsessions, which is no doubt why that shit is like oxygen to me. Later, the West Coast would polish down the wry and polish to chrome the chill factor samples over fat fucking basslines and beats. PF are perfect for this; they made records for people to take drugs to—an invaluable public service. Couple this will street tales and calls to party, and Dr. Dre becomes a producer on par with George Martin (no argument here—Let Me Ride is a forever song of the summer song), Ice Cube and Snoop Dog become national treasures (incrementally, we baby step to better/ the ever devouring hegemony smells money: the track makes me forget all that shit). This becomes the style most associated with PF. Not associated with the West Coast style are the northern California groups, all of whom are apparently "alternative hip-hop", a term less useful than "alternative", but hey, all critics want to coin a genre term, right? You can say fairly "alternative" bands like REM were more exciting and interesting than the Outfield, and that seems sensible, though no accounting for taste. "Alternative Hip-Hop" as opposed "mainstream hip-hop", where Run-DMC, the Beastie Boys and LL Cool J et al sold squillions of records making great fucking records? "Alternative" assumes a pure superiority over such things, flinging "authentic" and "sell-out" shitballs at such artists. Except only fuck heads would assert that these artists were garbage. Like total morons: the white college radio dickheads who cliched their way through "underground superiority" pronouncements and "sell-out" horseshit. Incidentally, these people all love "that one DK song" but really creamed their Morrissey approved Levis about the Stone Roses, but I feel like I'm drifting a bit... From a Bay Area known for Thrash and Punk Rock, the weirdos of Digital Underground scored one stone cold classic: "The Humpty Dance", a song so ubiquitous, your pasty Me-Maw knows the groove (If your pasty Me-Maw busts out "I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom", you should probably smoke a joint with her and talk that out). If you grew up in the Safe as Milk burbs, that is likely the end of it. The problem with the lightning in a bottle super-pop song is that everything thing else necessarily gets overlooked, cindered crispy by the exploding sublime pop ecstasy. The foreverness of "The Humpty Dance" as cultural totem obscures the album it came from, which is a terrible thing, because the rest is an absolutely fabulous alloy of PF samples a la De La Tribe, some bop lyrical phrasing and boogie beats weaving a sci-fi tale about a psychotropic pill that induces the sensory overload of fucking without actual fucking. Not masturbation. You take it, and the drug does all the rest: "Safest Sex there is" they proclaim. And for the AIDs terrified and stygmata afflicted Eighties, what could be better. St. George of Clinton doth say "The bigger the headache, the bigger the pillin'". We needed huge pills after the devastation of Reagan. The songs are all thematically related, highlighting different good times (music festivals, chilling with your pals, being butt naked, swimming pools, wanting to go home and get fucked up by yourself) orbiting the prospect of getting laid, which will change all previous plans for a lot of people. However, with in this sci-fi tales, the parallels to the war on drugs emerge, street crime and the life of a hustler, pop in and out of the rainbow pan-racial vision of booties shaking and boys boogying. This light approach to dystopian themes may have let folks sleep on this classic, but not me: I like gorgeous pop songs of utter despair, so give me party vibes and serious ideas, the sounds of the Underground. Shock G had to know he and his conspirators created a rare thing indeed—an utterly dancable, funky fun high-concept album that is never ponderous and contains no in·ter·sti·tial filler. This shit does not let up. It is a feature length universe of PF weirdness, bop phrasing, and sci-fi sexcapades. They should have made a movie. The poster would have had "Sex Packets" in the Star Wars font. Shock G's Nose lit up like a light saber. The tagline would be "Peace and Humptiness to You All". Get some humptiness, y'all.

Groovy and funky.

Cool

This album was super fun. Full of funny bits and didn’t take itself too seriously. It was made even better by the clean vocals any groovy beats backing every song. I definitely plan to revisit this album.

Bros from the Digital Underground be needing a cold shower, and got me wishing the Packet Man was real.

High school classic. This and public enemy were some of the best music for my teen years. 5/5

Weirdo hip-hop at its best

The central plot was quite strange, but I still had a great time.

Hilarious, great beats, a snapshot of 1990.

Concept of this album seemed stupid, but album is fire. Much better than expected. Great album!

cool

LEGENDARY SHIT RIGHT HERE. 5 stars.

After over 30 albums listened to, this is my first 5. This album does everything right, from good beats and flows to humor on every track. A very enjoyable listen, and one I am likely to return to.

I love this. It's a concept album from start to finish, and just drenched in comedy. The digital underground take all the bluster and swagger of big time performers, and turn it on its side. Freaks of the Industry doesn't get a E for its lyrics. That's a feat by itself. All this nerdy sex and swagger culminates not in actual sex, but in an eponymous Sex Packet. Just like the real thing. For sale. And you don't have to work at bedding the target of your interest. Dystopian sci fi rap genius. I loved it.

The concept album and the George Clinton samples drag a bit, but I will always love this album and the follow-up "Sons of the P" album for being unabashedly sexy, goofy and funny. 4.5 stars rounded up.

Amazing debut album. Genius lyrics. Funny. Funky. Just awesome.

I went in expecting a 3, halfway through was entertained enough to make it a four, and by the end I'm somehow considering giving it a five. The concept of the album was funny and entertaining with the peak being packet man near the end but it was backed up by fucking great beats and production that makes it relistenable. The "main theme" beat on the sex packet song and reprise is super sexy and catchy r&b while other songs like the way we swing and doowutchyalike are just straightforwardly good hip hop tracks. I'm also really glad that there's more outwardly comedic albums on this list (still hoping for weird al). Looking into the wiki more and this launched Tupac's career??? I guess I see where he got the inspiration for Temptations lol.

honestly…i saw the run time and i thought oh great…here we go…… but wow i loved every minute of this. funky ass instrumentals with some jazz sprinkled in to support a raunchy yet original concept about sex. as soon as the first track started i knew i was going to love it and i did. gotta give it a five, can’t find a flaw.

I must say I love the amount of Golden Age Hip-Hop coming up lately on my project. It went from a genre I was sort of unsure about, to a genre I'm really starting to enjoy. It just has a fun quality that later gangsta rap sort of lacked. This has things I'd generally dislike - it's another "horny" album, this one goes a step further by being a concept album with a very sexual storyline, but it gets a pass because it doesn't take itself seriously at all. In fact it's consistently funny. It's a product of its time, sure. I don't think an album joking about sex for 65 minutes would go down so much today. But what makes it stand the test of time is how listenable it is. The beats are great and the flows are smooth. I do think the first half was better than the second, but it was still great. A real bouncy party of an album. Favourite: The Humpty Dance

What is a sex packet? Where can I get one? I didn't listen to the album but I am intrigued by the title so five stars.

Digital Underground's Sex Packets is a wildly hilarious album that will have you laughing, dancing, and feeling a bit naughty. The album's storyline about a government-created drug that provides a unique sexual experience is sheer brilliance. But it's the tracks like "Sex Packets" and "Freaks of the Industry" that really showcase the band's funky beats and irreverent humor. "Sex Packets" is like a funky, psychedelic trip through a futuristic sex club, while "Freaks of the Industry" is a raunchy yet hilarious tale of sexual conquest that's impossible not to dance to. The album never takes itself too seriously, which is what makes it so much fun. It's like a funky party that never stops, and you're invited. So if you're looking for an album that will make you laugh, dance, and maybe even blush a little, then Digital Underground's Sex Packets is the perfect choice. It's a classic that's still as fresh and fun as the day it was released.

This was genuinely so much fun to listen to. Some of the lyrics are just mad and I love how unserious it is. 10/10 story telling too.

A worthy debut from Digital Underground. If you didn't quite like this one, the true essential entry from them is Sons of the P. RIP Shock G

This is quite a cool sound, very summery especially to bring out at a party.

Incredibly fun(ny) shockingly good album. You can't tell me that the rhyme scheme/flow of Packet Man didn't influence Hamilton though

Gloriously weird in conception, totally hilarious (a component often lacking in the genre) and super detailed in execution. Love what got pulled off here.

I don't like hip-hop or rap. But maybe that's not completely true. This sounds decidedly 90s in a good way, and the lyrics are a riot. Favorite track: The Humpty Dance, but the whole album is consistent

Takes me back to living in downtown Oakland back when this was out and you could hear it from car radios...

Awesome album, didn't listen to it back in the day. Glad I did now.

The production is simply amazing, the innovative mix of hip-hop and jazz, the sampling and the small musical moments like the ending of "Freaks of the Industry" are really good. Musically, this album is simply flawless. Shock G is great, charismatic and creates an interesting character in Humpty. The lyrics and flows are also very well crafted, and the group's talent, particularly Shock G's are undeniable. The biggest flaw I find with the album is the execution of the concept. The concept in itself is interesting enough, and the album cohesively builds around varied commentary about sex. But not all of it has aged too well. While the parody and exaggeration are certainly a big part of the concept, I feel like they miss the mark with the tone in some parts, for example, the women in cages in "Gutfest '89". There is relevant commentary about safe sex for example, and it's an interesting exploration of sexuality through a concept album, which is far ahead of its time in my opinion. To do this in an album that's musically so good should merit 5 stars. But I can't take away from the fact that what was an forward look on sex in the 80/90s, today just feels outdated in places that are too relevant to ignore.

What a wild record. This is kind of amazing sexy hip hop. It’s absolutely too much and way over the top, but in its own way that kind of makes it great? A concept album about a futuristic pill that satisfies sexual desire?!? It’s ambitious, it’s silly, it’s groovy, it’s a mess. But it’s also kind of perfect. You can also hear how so much of this record influences contemporary rap and hip hop. Nikki Minaj or Megan Thee Stallion don’t happen without this record.

'I use a word that don't mean nothin', like looptid.' For a goof, they get real on this one, conceptualizing the basic integration of sex and commerce: 'Yeah, one big stupid butt nest / And I'm'a get mine at Gutfest.' Shock G is not quite Lewis Carroll, but unlike other alternative rap outfits at the time (De La, Jungle, Tribe, etc.), he doesn't just know how to affirm w/ off-color rhymes, but he employs nonsense to make a whole lot of sense. 'The Humpty Dance' and 'Doowutchyalike' are funk classics, but the ingenuity of the record clarifies on the second track, which samples Hendrix's 'Who Knows' from Band of Gypsys. Not quite a perfect album, since it's too long and plods in moments, but it's an enduring product: 'it's so real - it is real.'

Twenty-five years ago I would’ve given this five stars. I appreciated their heavy use of funk, predominantly Patent/Funkdelic, and sense of humor, especially against the backdrop of the rap scene at the time, which was leaning hard into gangsta rap. DU was more akin to the other bands of that era that I enjoyed, like Arrested Development and Trice Called Quest, but still unique. Now, the largely singular focus of one topic wears old and sad on me. The Humpty Dance is still a solid song, as is Dowhatchalike, but the rest just kind of fill me with - what is it the kids are calling it these days? - the ick? Yeah, that’s what it is. Oh, Underwater Rimes is pretty amusing. They rhyme “lobster” and “mobster,” so that’s a win. And Danger Zone is an interesting break with depth. If I heard this for the first time today it would probably only get 3/5, but I’ve listened to this album a hundred times in the past and struggle to give it less than 4.

Despite the interesting title, this is still some pretty damn good old school hiphop. 4.5 bumped down to 4.

Sex Packets is the debut album from Digital Underground. They brought irreverent humor to their raps, with goofy songs like the "Humpty Hump," and "Doowutchyulike," all with a funky bass line and melodic sampling. Most of Digital Underground's samples came from Parliament-Funkadelic, making the album something of an homage to P-Funk. Digital Underground pushed hip-hop towards a silly, jazzy sound - far from the gangster rap that dominated the era.

Whoever invents sex packets first will be a quadrillionaire. Also, the Humpty Dance is legendary.

If the A Tribe Called Quest album from the same year is a little closer to the rap Pet Sounds or at least rap Today! then this one is much more like Sex Rap Safari or Sex Rap USA. In other words really corny and dated and a little slipshod in places but also oodles of fun. Humpty Dance is tbh a kinda garbage start but on The Way We Swing they cue up Hendrix Band Of Gypsys and it becomes a good record again. Whole album is a mega Will Smith-athon because the grooves constantly evoke Fresh Prince Of Bel Air and on Underwater Rimes even a bit of Shark Tale. Gutfest 89, Freaks Of The Industry, Doowutchyalike and entire Packets suite all ribald highs. The Danger Zone dullest low.

Classic hip hop

4 stars! I really like the FREAKS OF THE INDUSTRY song.

I like it and it's a great party album, but I'm not a party DJ anymore so I don't think I'd add it to my collection. 20 years ago I should have had it.

Great beats and table-turning, not a fan of the braggadocios 90s vocal style

Pretty funky. Good samples. Hendrix, Parliament, Herbie Hancock. Lyrics could be a lil silly tho

very interesting. i fw most of it but some of the songs were very drawn out

Loved it until we got to the packets. Which makes me feel like I missed the point.

Look, it's really hard to follow The Humpty Dance. It's also really hard to listen to this album while at work without becoming very paranoid that my earbuds leak sound. I really enjoyed the instrumentation and funk sound on this and I guess I have a lot of openness to really stupid cheesy horndog song material. 3.5

I liked this. The only song I was familiar with was The Humpty Dance which was on a mix tape my cousin made and I thought it was so cool then. I still think it's so cool now. The album was definitely goofy in some parts. But I loved a lot of the songs on the first listen.

ahhh Humpty 😍😍

god amigo hipi yop yop yop

I like the way these guys schwing

Very old school, unique style but I got a bit tired of those simple 80s raps. The genre has evolved over the years.

Reminds me of music from pingu

Rap with questionable lyrics _can_ be combined with cool grooves! Who would have thunked it?

Pretty good. Different, I like that.

Genuinely exciting to find more older hip-hop that I enjoy. This has a great funky early 90s feel. Not quite a 5* for me but definitely a 4*. Great vibes music wise, some of the lyrics did not age well but they are certainly of their time. I tend to try to overlook that. The last few songs lose the thread a little bit for me so that's why it's more of a 4* than a 5* for me.

Finally something I can dance to! I love it. Definitely didn't remember that this album was called sex packets lol

Part of the originals, trend setting and ground breaking.

Entertaining.

Great old school rap hip hop

Funky funny hip hop

"Sex Packets" is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Digital Underground. It is a concept album based on large pills which are in condom-size package and developed by the government to provide users a satisfied sexual experience in situations where such experiences would be counterproductive to the mission at hand. Oh, Boy! The album had positive reviews and did well commercially hitting #24 in the US and #59 in the UK. The second single "The Humpty Dance" opens the album. A funky hip hop beat. Shock G on the mic as he describes his sexual prowess despite his ugly looks. Some absolutely great rhymes in this song. "Gutfest '89" opens with a guy talking about a conference with a bunch of great bands and, of course, Digital Underground closing. The jazzy music starts with a quick hip hop beat. Large girls in cages fighting naked at Gutfest, y'all. "Freaks of the Industry" gets the bass going with a chill vibe. You can't go wrong sampling Diana Ross and Donna Summer. Well, maybe you can but they didn't. The first released song was "Doowutchyalike." It's a busy song with multiple rappers. There's horns, a groovy dance beat and scratching. For some reason, I thought of Bell Biv DeVoe. Do what you like. Be who you are. "Sex Packets" is smooth and jazzy. A nice job of sampling Prince. They describe, well, the sex packets being all over the town. This was a fun album. It is funny, has clever lyrics and carries that ridiculous concept through the album. The music is funky and jazzy at times. They make repetitive jokes about the sexual packets. There's nice use of sampling particularly Parliament and Prince. There's an overall chill vibe. This album is definitely worth going back for a listen.

I don't think the concept of this album deserves a whole hour to be fully understood to be honest. Other than that it is actually entertaining enough and it made me smile a few times with its silliness which I actually appreciate.

Aah hip hop concept albums

Crass but good sound

Much better than I anticipated. Early 90's hip hop is much better than I gave it credit for. Best Song: Underwater Rimes

Really exiting album. I don't think I have heard something like this before.

Quite funky, also quite silly, definitely more memorable than the others on here

Havde svært ved at beslutte mig for om det her var helt åndssvagt eller virkelig fedt. Endte med "virkelig fedt" fordi det gik på for mig at det minder mig ret meget om Malk de Koijn. Virkelig virkelig quotable tekster, nice beats der ikke rigtig lyder som andet hip hop på det her tidspunkt

That was a fun album. I had only ever heard the single the Humpty Dance, the rest of the album was quite enjoyable