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This had two big negatives from the very start, the title and that it was hip hop. I didn't get very far into this one before quitting.
Haven't heard of them. If I had a nickel for every time a 90s rap album based around a sci-fi concept relating to sex appeared on this list I'd have 2 nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice. While ok, I'm afraid this album didn't reach the absurdity and entertainment heights of Dr. Octagonecologyst 2/5
Humpty Dance and not much else, doesn't do it for me the way other early 90s hip hop does.
I'm probably generous judging by the ratings on the project website. It's a bit long. Gets weird at the end. However, I'm a sucker for late 80s/early 90s hip hop.
Rap not my scene
Cool to see this band is more than just the humpty dance. Great beats
A couple great songs, the rest are pretty good. I bought this album when it came out. The Humpty Dance is classic, but I never thought the album was anything really special. It is more of a nostalgic pick for me. 4/5
Now that I am old enough to understand The Humpty Dance in full, I don't think it was the brightest move on my parents' part to show me this as a young child. During the 90s Hip Hop/Rap music was very clearly splitting up into two separate groups, 1. A much grittier and dark sound was emerging full of political and more meaning lyrical content in the wake of N.W.A.'s classic album Straight Outta Compton and 2. The group who wanted Hip Hop to stay fun, unserious, and playful. The Digital Underground and their debut album Sex Packets fall into the second group there, and as we can all now see with the aging of over 35 years, it hasn't fared the best for the second group. An album full of party anthems is only bound to last so long in the eyes of the general public, unless you are Mac Miller because KIDS still slaps. I have nothing bad to say about this other than time hasn't been very kind to it. If I was alive in 1990 and/or heard this more growing up, maybe I'd be more fond of it, but I just don't think it holds up very well with my current tastes and with the kind of music I enjoy.
You cant be gangster and then have a song about a bloafish DJ.
I fundamentally disagree that I needed to hear this before I died. Aged, dated, dull. So many great hip hop albums came out in 1990, but this isn't one of them
It was better than I was bracing for, but still too long.
I’ve hear way better-I could do better
This was stupid. Literally listening to middle schoolers rap about sex and sex and sex. Way too long and bloated, same ideas (sex) repeated over and over and over again. Why is this here and why did I have to listen to it?
I feel like I lost some brain cells listening to this
This album is super fun, like all of the songs are fun and enjoyable, but they don’t have anything that I felt was good. I would only relisten to one song just because the rest was like ok, not good.
This is a very good and energetic rap album. Listening to it felt lively and entertaining from start to finish. The rhymes are flawless and often funny, with a playful attitude that keeps the whole record moving. The vocals sit naturally on top of the instrumentals and everything feels well matched. The group has a clear sense of personality and fun. The tracks carry a strong party energy mixed with clever wordplay, and the mood stays consistent without becoming repetitive. It has that early 90s West Coast and funk influenced hip hop feel that still works well today. The production is really well made. The beats are tight, the samples are used effectively, and the overall sound is clean and full. Nothing feels rough or unfinished. The instrumentals support the rhymes perfectly and give the album a polished but still funky character. Sex Packets is a strong and enjoyable debut. Energetic, well crafted and full of personality.
Not for me. Really at all lmao I'm sorry
Lots of creativity here, but many songs are far too long, and "Freaks of the Industry" and "Sex Packets" border on negative-star territory. I probably shouldn't have read the lyrics while listening.
Enjoyed this more than expected, was pretty clever and creative Best lyric: “now if you wear corrective shoes and you got thick bunions, toenails smell and look like onions, don’t doowutchyalike”
63/100. Some beats on this record are fantastic and it's a record that knows how to have fun, maybe not the best listening experience at all times, but it’s a classic. The main issue is that it has segments that drag on for way too long, especially when the beat ain’t at its best either. Overall a fun party hip hop record.
like???
You hear how outdated this is and attribute it to its age but then you realise Tribe would drop The Low End Theory just a year later, Public Enemy had already put out multiple classics, you had Rakim in the same era who blows the rapping on this album out of the water and you wonder how this album has made it on the list. The Humpty Dance is a cool opener but it goes on for WAAAAY too long which is a pretty good summation of this album (why is the second song seven whole minutes long??) I guess the best thing about this album is its strong P-Funk influence and some may find the concept funny but on the whole this album really shows its age.
Overall: 3/10 After listening to the rest of this album, I'm shocked that these guys were able to write a song as good as The Humpty Dance. That song alone is the reason this isn't getting my lowest rating. The beats all suck and the lyrics are so gross and misogynistic. There were a few moments that made me laugh but it wasn't enough to make me enjoy this. Just listen to The Humpty Dance and skip the rest. Fav Song: The Humpty Dance
Better stay underground, digital or whatever. Wankers.
Prince is the only one who’s allowed to sing about sex this way. If you’re singing about anal sex and about not ever having to jack it anymore, you’re definitely jacking it.
It’s funky
Good beats, but I didn't really resonate. It was kind of forgettable
A new group on me. Funkier than most rap tunes, which is no bad thing as far as I’m concerned. I liked this album, even if the subject matter is a bit dubious for today’s taste.
Peace, and Humptiness forever
There seems to be no good reason for all these songs to be six or seven minutes long. They could be a concise three, be stronger and we'd all get to go home sooner. The first moments on the album had me thinking there'd been some mistake and I had a Will Smith album. The rhymes, which include such things as I get stupid, I shoot an arrow like Cupid l use a word that don't mean nothin, like looptid - are either goofy or incompetent - let's go with goofy, just to be charitable. And all the sex kink stuff. Well, we've got Prince to do that properly. Kind of an artefact of what the 90s thought would last.
This one is difficult for me to rate. Sometimes it truly was a 4. But the songs overstay their welcome on the whole and it’s spotty. The pace and the humor are actually really interesting. I wish I could go 4. But it kept dragging me back to a 3. And when the concept really kicked in on the second half, the 3 solidified. 3 Boolean: True
Great hip hop
An interesting album. Not a fan. 1 star.
I’m truly torn on how I feel about this album. Most of the songs are far too long to be an enjoyable listening experience, but the flow is good and the emcees are entertaining to listen to. The album also doesn’t take itself too seriously. It almost feels like a comedy album by a group like the Lonely Island, but they forget the irony and treat everything seriously. I can’t even fault the concept album part of this because it’s not that prevalent, and it’s a pretty interesting science fiction topic. Other reviews want to hate on it, but those same people would be drooling if the same concept was used but it was four stuffy British white guys high on shrooms and playing psychedelic rock. All in all, this album was my chance to do the hump.
really not what i was expecting... but i didn't hate it? quite raunchy
The 3:30 part of Doowutchyalike was funny. "Oh yeah it's 3:30 now, you radio people can fade it out now." *fades out* "Ok now any clubs or house parties or such can keep listening, here's more of Doowutchyalike"
Big no to the opening Humpty nonsense. My part of St Albans did not like the way they swing. Rhymin on the funk was meh. Didn’t mind the jazz funk feel but spoilt by stupid voices and content at times. Just about rescued from a 2 by the tracks from Doowutchyalike onwards. Yes I enjoyed the packet songs. 2.6.
The hip hop equivalent of Justin Timberlake but funnier
A little dated and I think similar-ish concepts have been done better - Bobby Digital, Dr.Octagon/Kool Keith etc..
Dear god, no, that was awful. Terribly dated, terribly predictable rhyme schemes, childish, misogynistic and frankly just not very good. Like a poor man’s De La Soul. Scraped a 2, with serious consideration being given to a one star review
If MC Hammer had a stroke and became weirdly sex obsessed.
More like the rapping from Flight of the Conchords
The fact that hip hop developed decades after blues, jazz and rock were fully established leaves us with the surprising artifacts like Sex Packets, an album from 1990 which sounds as old fashioned as the boogie woogie. The Humpty Dance is a straight up novelty song and is not at all representative of the album but because it's the opener and bit single it draws disproportionate attention. The bulk of the record is enjoyable, smart hip hop, not quite A Tribe Called Quest level, but music that’s a lot of fun with a good energy.
Sex Packets was a solid 2 for me, some laughs (I liked it when he was rapping from the perspective of a fish in a fishy voice) but a lot of cringe
Please no more hip hop, although this is a bit more musical and interesting than most.
*album would not open, said it’s private
Hip Hop, 64eme album =>1/5
Bon déjà, à voir la pochette et la durée (le réglementaire 1h-1h15 de rap), ça part mal. Et que j'en voie pas un me traiter de raciste. Après la première mauvaise impression, c'est vrai que le concept est rigolo, il y a certains bouts qui sonnent bien, des bons samples (un extrait de Chameleon de Hancock par exemple). J'ai aimé gutfest '89. Pour moi le rap, c'est lourd, c'est chargé, c'est peu digeste, j'ai l'impression de souper au foie gras. Probablement le plus proche d'un compliment que vous allez me voir faire sur le rap, parce que j'aime le foie gras. Mais manger juste ça pour souper, ça me déprimerait.
J'aime mon rap rigolo et loufoque, c'est en plein ce qu'on a ici.
Weirdest album about a strange sex drug, aged rhyme patterns. This 90s rap a few years before this genre exploded and transformed into something new did not age well. I still had fun with the Album, especially the beats and production is a bit ahead on some tracks. 5/10
Really pretty solid. I enjoy old school hip hop.
Really good album! Shock G and Tupac were legends that will be remembered for generations! This is one of the greatest Rap albums of all time and one of my personal favorites! Amazing!
So 90s
Super dated and way too long
The Good: We finally receive that special packet! The Bad: Ours got switched in the mail… The Ugly: Humpty’s nose… I mean, seriously… that’s a gherkin fo sho Fuck me, to think that I was going to not find another hip hop album to like… until the fucking digital underground presented themselves! I’d say this album oozes “let’s have some fun” Listening to this for the first time in my life, only familiar with the opening song which was everywhere in 1990, I have to say that I wasn’t bored. However, and this would be my gripe, I don’t know if I would be able to handle the album in its entirety with a set frequency… unless that frequency is once a year, or every other year. Still, instead of stating “bitch suck my dick”, here the ladies are enticed to just get busy with the afore mentioned gherkin. I really want to give this 4*… I really do… but I can’t 3*
90s hip hop. Some of the beats were pretty good, but every single song was about twice as long as it needed to be and so the whole album felt really slow and repetitive. The first half of the album was a bit silly but had some good moments. Then out of nowhere the second half is a concept album with a premise that is just really lame and goofy. This gets 1 star for ruining "Who Knows" by repeating the same 2 second sample for 7 mins.
The Humpty Dance was part of the soundtrack of my high school experience. I went to a boarding school and there was a kid named Thurman who played it over and over at and over and had this funny dance he’d do. We didn’t like the song because it was it was good. We liked it , but because it was a funny novelty. And that’s kinda how I feel about this whole record. It’s not terrible hip hop. It’s just silly.
I know they’re from Oakland but I couldn’t finish it sorry . Thanks for the lake Merritt shout out though
Our first West Coast hip hop album in quite some time, and what a way to return to this side, lol. Despite some very funky beats & production, nothing much really latched on to me during the first bit of the album. I think it would've worked better if more of the album had been devoted to the absurd "Sex Packets" concept, because once the last few songs about those started, I was pretty locked in.
All the reviews calling this very dated were right. Ugh no thanks
This album is so close to being incredible!! The Parliament/Funkadelic influences instantly stood out to me, both in the beat production and in their overall humour. Clean rhymes overall, too. Its one major flaw: they never know when to stop. Just about every song (barring skits) could be cut in half and be made a whole lot better. It's to the point where even bangers like Humpty Dance and Doowutchyalike were overstaying their welcome. Then the sex packet concept itself is confusingly brief, ironically, considering it's sold as the whole premise of the album. Nevertheless, it's an unique project and I love it for how creatively stupid it gets. There's a song where they bring in a blowfish MC to drop underwater-themed rhymes. That's uncharted territory in hip hop as far as I'm aware. Standouts: The Humpty Dance • Rhymin' on the Funk • Underwater Rimes • Packet Man
How to classify this album. I think it would work a lot better if they stuck to one idea. Calling the album Sex Packets but then only elaborating on that idea in two songs and an interlude is kind of crazy to me. Call me weird but I thought they would spend some time exploring the idea. I would have been ok if that was the whole album, and i would've been even more ok if they focused on just making a tight, comedic work. You could trim about two minutes from most of these songs and lose nothing, which is a shame because when they decide to be funny, they're great. Gutfest 89, Underwater Rimes and Freaks of the Industry all genuinely made me laugh at some point. The album is just a little too long and a little too confused.
they are talking a lot about this sex thing. cant relate ;( apart from that not very captivating. Flow gets a little stale after a while. Some chill tracks but over all rather annoying. Some weird bars about teenage girls too. Kinda icky 3/10
Mixed bag, singles, skits and weird sci fi that doesnt go anywhere
Поначалу полный кринж, но в целом есть забавные веселые моменты, если слишком серьезно не относиться к альбому, то можно 3,5 влепить с натяжкой, но все равно не понимаю, как он здесь оказался.
Ржака, но очень долго.
не мое, ну и давно прям неинтересного не было - 2.5
God this cover is SO dated. Is that supposed to be a digital condom? That looks like an NFT 🥲. So on their Spotify bio they say this rap group uses Parliament-Funkadelic samples. This was before G-funk perfected the recipe. Add to that they don't know how to cut a rap short. Even on "Doowutchyalike" someone tells the DJ to start their fade out lol. There's only so much you can "pack" on one song till it gets annoyingly repetitive. All that to say the last four tracks seem to be the most consistent with the album's vision. With a rap group name like that though they could have leaned into the "digital" sound more. The production on "Sex Packets" has aged the least; sounds like a 2000s or mid-2010s alt-R&B song. Quality control could have helped this album so much (2.5-3). (Also I don't get their vibe. Are the Digital Underground supposed to be zany but also gangsta? Like an in between De La Soul and NWA?)
This sounds like it was made in a lab to be the most dated, dorky sounding late 80's rap album ever made. 3/10 and lucky to just slip out of 1 star range.
hmmmmmm kinda neutral Will I listen to again: 5%
Some of the beats were pretty sick
6/10
This is either too silly to be this explicitly sexual or too explicitly sexual to be this silly and I'm not sure which. I think the sound is pretty unique, both in the instrumentals and the vocal style. It's interesting for sure. I cannot believe how long most of these songs are. They'd have been forced to shorten these today but it's kind of cool they were allowed to groove on them back then.
Dieser Hibbity Song schon gnaz lustig, aber die Texte wirklich schon seeeeeeeeehr aus der Zeit gefallen
Furchtbares Album, kindische Texte, langweilige Beats, zu lange.
Furchtbares Album, kindische Texte, langweilige Beats, zu lange.
"Black radio shame, pop rap’s to blame, Program your playlist to sound the same, With a disco tempo, cliche intro, Wack rap tracks for commercial shows, Mindless music for the masses has to take, Time away from the real rap master, So I’ll stay cool for community airplay, While ratings slip for the sh** that you play” - This Is A Test (from The Devil Made Me Do It - Paris, also released in 1990)
Nothing makes me feel more like Hank Hill than listening to hip hop. I think I prefer the sound of power tools to this.
Horny but bars. An extra star just for the lumpy oatmeal rhyme
Me encanta
I guess I'm a bit confused about the conceit of Sex Packets. Humpty Dance is cool though.
These guys are horny af 2/5
After taking a month off, I asked the algorithm to show me what it's got, and it served up an album called “Sex Packets”. Sigh. Well played, algorithm. With a title like that, and lyrics like “My name is Humpty, pronounced with an Umpty…”, this clearly isn't an album that takes itself too seriously. Party rap, absurdist comedy, and social commentary frame a strange science-fiction storyline involving G.S.R.A. (Genetic Suppression Relief Antidotes) or “sex packets”. What are G.S.R.A., and what the hell are you talking about? Fair question. These fictional “sex packets” are government-developed pills that supposedly create completely convincing erotic dreams, given to astronauts and the likes to keep them focused on the mission and not their co-workers. Yep, it's nutty. It's weird. But it's also unexpectedly great. Funk-soaked samples make this pretty damn enjoyable. 80s/early 90s hip hop was always built on great samples, and this is no exception. Every song is constructed out of old-school funk, soul and rock tunes, from the likes of Sly and the Family Stone, Hendrix, Parliament, Herbie Hancock, Ray Charles, Prince and so much more. Samples are combined with programmed drums, live keyboards and bass, scratching, sung passages, character voices and deliberately theatrical transitions to amazing effect. “Doowutchyalike” is the peak of that sample-heavy approach. A frenzied fever-dream collage of a loop party, you could spend a lot of time trying to identify all of the source material. It's also the peak of the nuttiness of the album with pitch-shifted vocals, a fake fade-out for radio plays, PSAs and who-knows-what-else buried in the layers of this nutbar of a song. I didn't know anything about the Digital Underground before today. They were a flexible collective full of extravagant costumed characters, working off the P Funk model (hence the eccentricities). Apparently, Tupac was a dancer and roadie in the band for a while before starting his own rap career. But for how unseriously they took and presented themselves, there was some serious substance and musicality under the madness. Well played, algorithm.
According to the song 'Packet Man', one of the Sex Packets is for a minor. Be careful out there y'all.
had rly low expectations honestly but hard to not be completely won over by the vocal imitation of the bass partway thru the opening track. obviously i heard the chronic recently so p-funk's deep entwining with hip hop has been a thing in my brain, but this is genuinely less hip hop that uses p-funk as the basis of its construction and more just like...a hip hop version Of p-funk. its basically a beefy, dancey funk album that just happens to have goofy rapping over it, and the overlap of optimistic afrofuturist aesthetics and indulgent silliness are extremely george clinton-core. gets stuck in ur teeth like caramel. rly fun!
Urgh. 90s rap is mostly shite, but this is beyond shite. Awful backing music that Jazzy Jeff would baulk at and utterly abysmal lyrics that are dated and the sort of stuff that would probably identify you as an incel in this day and age.
The opening track is one of the best things ever made, the rest is okay.
This is incredibly annoying Best Song: Humpty Dance Rating: 3.5/10 Stars: 2
Starts strong and fades. Maybe a little too long. Overall enjoyed it, but starts out a strong 3+ and finishes a 2. Gonna be generous and go with a 3 because it’s unique.
Shock G was a brilliant musician and producer. This album is fire
The Humpty Dance is undeniable and Doowutchyalike is a favorite since small times, but it's a pretty uneven album.
2,4/5
Hiphop's Frank Zappa. Wildly inappropriate to listen to at work.
I'd only heard the humpty dance as a weird al polka snippet. This shit is all ridiculous, but pretty fun and that weird ass toned? bass? drum? in the opener is cool as hell, a lot of the production is, though the rapping is older school. The concept and lyrics are ridiculous. Love the fish one.
I’ll be honest - I was excited to see this pop up. I just have fond memories of The Humpty Dance when I was a kid. Unfortunately, that was the highlight of the album. 80s rap is so corny, and anachronistic that it can be hard to listen to. That said, The Humpty Dance is still a banger, and this is the band that launched 2Pac, so it’s all love from me.
Better than I hoped. Sounds of its time, but a good listen with lots of fun tracks
This album has aged horribly. Boom bap records always sound somewhat dated just due to how quickly hip hop has progressed in 40 years, but this record has the unfortunate distinction of having lyrical content that isn’t exactly acceptable in 2026. I did enjoy certain points of this album and I definitely hear some sounds that influenced other acts such as OutKast.
Wow these guys are really obsessed with s-e-x. It could be worse, I guess.
from the title and album art i already knew this was either gonna fuck supremely or just absolutely suck shit. one verse in and we're already rapping about having a big nose and fucking in the bk bathrooms? yeah.... this one whips. this album is genuinely great. the lyrics are insane, and the production feels quite a bit more modern than i'd expected from a 1990 release. between the beats, the flows, and the choice to rap about, whatever the fuck, it kinda reminds me of early de la soul if they were significantly more unhinged? and not just cos of their shared themes of getting on some bullshit at a burger king. i'm also a huge fan of the sudden segue 3/4 of the way thru into being a concept album about a government-developed pill that makes u instantly black out and hallucinate til u cum. it's incredible stuff. these guys were moving different. i think my favourite tracks probably would've been "the humpty dance", "rhymin' on the funk" and "doowutchyalike" but the entire concept album section about sex packets at the end really stole the fuckin show for me. despite being what the album is named after, and the album art depicting humpty hump holding the sex packet, it still somehow caught me totally off guard. it really is amazing, and they're a great set of tracks to boot. i also gotta mention the nautically-themed "underwater rimes" for teaching me what the fuck a "fathom" is. yeah that's right, this album is educational too. it's got it all. i love this album so much. what a great pick. music is so fuckin good dude.......
Really fun good energy throughout. Loved the P-Funk samples and that everyone had a funny voice. When he started doing a Blowfish voice during Underwater Rimes it was so awesome. The pace was generally so slow though it got a little annoying when they were just listing different countries that like the way they swing. Also so funny that they have this like elaborate multisong swing that's just a sexual fantasy where there are no women involved. We need more concept albums about jerking off.
Come on. One of the best thousand albums with the Humpty Dance as it's centerpiece.
This is like a guilty pleasure album. It's a bit goofy and stupid in places, but it actually has some really good rhymes and tunes in amongst it all. I challenge you to listen to 'The Humpty Dance' and not have a smile on your face. 'The Way We Swing' and 'Doowutchyalike' are also great, while the concept of 'Sex Packets' is bizarre but pretty cool. Maybe it's just that I heard this when I was 16 and loved some of these tracks at the time, but it doesn't deserve the hate it gets in a lot of the reviews here.
Repetitive
The Humpty Dance! There doesn't really need to be an album that follows this. Peak early 90s hip hop. It was just everywhere back then and it still bangs. As for the rest of the record, well all I can say is your fun fact of the day is that Tupac was once a member of Digital Underground. Unfortunately, he wasn't part of this album. Did you know that this was a concept album, focused on these little packets which would be given to key individuals who could use them to simulate sex when they couldn't actually have sex since it would stand in the way of what they were doing? I'd say this idea and making a concept album about it is borderline crazy, but if we are being honest about it, this is far from being borderline. All rolled up, 4 stars. Crazy concept, decent album, banger of a song in the Humpty Dance. And yes, I am being very generous.
Прикольний розважальний хіп-хоп. Біти танцювальні. Репчик кумедний. Єдина претензія це те, наскільки ж він довгий. Деякі пісні можна було, буквально, вдвічі меншими зробити, і альбом від цього тільки виграв би. Але маємо, що маємо. Оцінка: середня-висока 6
1/5 I’m writing this while listening to the album, and honestly, I don’t feel annoyed by this project anymore - I’m starting to let frustration and sadness take over! Holy shit, man: whoever put this list together must not really understand what “must-listen before you die” means! I get a lot of the criteria: quality; the artist’s genius; sales; impact on a particular genre; et cetera, et cetera… But man, either I’m having really bad luck with this latest trend, or whatever comes next is going to have to be really, really good! Finishing up these latest albums and thinking, “I want the time I wasted listening to this back” is truly sad and frustrating. I didn’t find this kind of music funny at all back then, and as time has gone by, I feel like nothing has changed - it’s completely dispensable. Absolute garbage - don’t tell me there aren’t better albums out there… oh, right, I forgot - Anglophile crap reigns over the whole world :-(
..........I didn't know "The Humpty Dance" was, or needed to be, 6 and 1/2 minutes long. Now that's a song that really benefits from an abridged version. In fact, most of these songs could be cut down by a minute or 2 to make something that has a little more energy to it. All of these mid-tempo grooves are nice in isolation but forcing them to repeat endlessly over a VERY dated old-school flow makes these would-be party anthems into a slog to get through. The "concept" of this record - something about quarter-sized pills for sexual potency, or something like that - is also somewhat lost since each song more or less talks about the exact same thing the exact same way. Despite all those shortcomings, these beats are immaculate especially for the era they came out of, being the tail end of old-old-school hip hop and all. Each one is memorable and wonderfully mixed; it's just a shame that the rhymes can't keep up with them more than half the time. Many of these beats are begging for an MC to recount some crimes or rough story, but they're given the dirty bar treatment basically every time. An important listen to if you want to see where hip hop started really getting ambitious, but you have to be prepared to listen to the same type of bars a whole lot. Also a pretty racy album lyrically, which wasn't out of the ordinary even at the time but you can expect straight up moaning on the beat like in "Freaks of the Industry." Key Tracks: The Humpty Dance, The Way We Swing, Gutfest '89, Freaks of the Industry
was fun for a few songs but got old really quick
i actually liked it, is it a whole bunch of kinks? yes. is it kind of grotesque in it? yes as well.
A hip to the hop and the hip hop hippity. Good rhymes but just sounds a little corny
Meh get your big pickle schnauzer out of here.
This album is silly, pronounced with an "illy"
Pretty interesting and entertaining.
not my thing
Genuinely couldn't get past the first song. How this even made the list is beyond me
Stronger on concept than metaphor. Funky as hell 4.4
RATING: 5.5/10 HIGHLIGHT: The Humpty Dance LOWLIGHT: Gutfest '89
Enjoyed it more than I expected, but it’s not something I’m rushing to listen to again.
I raised my eyebrow since I started reading the album concept in Wikipedia, and listening to the album itself didn't fix it that much. Plus every song is repetitive as hell.
Strangely, for any album that is almost entirely about sex it is incredibly corny. Theres a moment in one if the songs where they talk about having to stop and put a condom on. Which like, yeah let's practice safe sex, but it seems kind of shoe horned into the verse and doesn't really add or say anything. Most of the album is like this. I find it really disappointing because sex is such an easy topic to use word play with, look at Cupcakke, who's lyrics are obscene but incredibly smart and well written. The most i can say is that it's definitely a party, except for the moments where rhe flow kind of stops to talk about condoms. 4/10
Can’t get over the fact that he sounds like Roger from American Dad in the opening track
Not awful, but I don't get why it's here. Nothing special.
fun. but id rather pick up de la soul or digable planets tbh. 3.5
This was pretty fun. I knew a couple of songs and this was generally pretty light hearted for a hip hop album. Good funky groove.
They are debuting with a concept album? A concept album about illusory sex pills? That's courageous. Interesting concept/story, unique, creative, has a sense of humor about itself, magically free of slurs (so it CAN be done), I appreciate that they brought their own pianist. Vocals are nice and something about it reminds me of the podcast "Adventures in New America" (afrofuturism storytelling, I guess). It is certainly sexist, tasteless and sleazy in places but it's no worse than 'Ready to Die'. "Sexist" and "sleazy" is, unfortunately, what I expect from hip hop in general (though I'm always in the market for artists that prove me wrong). I guess in the end it balances itself out to a solid 'ehh, pretty ok'. At least they encourage safe sex.
Um its ok. Over rated I think
Kinda surprised this is on the list? The Humpty Dance is iconic of course, but I guess I had assumed Digital Underground didn't do anything else notable. Some pieces are good here, the rapping all throughout is surprisingly competent and the sampling is inspired and tasteful. It's just that some of the tracks simply go on too long for no real reason. Maybe a product of its time. I'm also not really following the "concept" that's supposedly here either. Although I guess the album's title spells it out pretty clearly...Quite the concept...
not my scene
Best bit was when it ended
I don't mean to be a prude or sex negative but like this album just comes off insanely objectifying the way it talks about women 💀 It was so intense and constantly self referential that I'm genuinely not sure if this was meant to be a concept album or satirical or something?? If I'm the one missing the point that's my bad but uhhh regardless of those opinions I didn't feel like it was good music. It felt like the fresh prince but bad
why did I commit to listening to 1.5 hours of this on the plane
sex n objectification stuff aside it is just really cheesy and dated. Maybe I been spoiled by other projects of this time but this is the kind of artist that has a a song in the background of a live action TMNT movie somehow. It just is bad! I couldn't finish it. Giving a 2 as there were some moments of fun production.
pretty decent beats. only good thing i can say really
Probably the worst bars I've heard in my life, the beats are ok but jesus...
It was kinda fun in a corny, pre-gangster rap hip hop kinda way, but I’m never gonna listen to this again
Very much not a record you need to listen to before you die. There’s some funny moments and clever deliveries buried under a bunch of dated sounds, references, and lyrics. But nothing else to report of here. “Underwater Rimes” was a pretty cool little story. I wish there was more goofy, harmless ideas instead of corny sexualizations of women like “Freaks Of The Industry”. It sounds like the album cover 2/5
Fresh prince of Bell-Air, enough said
I enjoyed this. Pretty melodic.
Not my favorite of the early 90s hip hop albums (an incredibly strong and fun and experimental time for hip hop), but there’s still lots here to enjoy.
Definitivamente sexual. Divertido, musicalmente interesante.
5/10
I don't find interesting enough so far. While I think it's well made and well produced, I look for other things in hip hop records usually. The production, while fine, isn't especially exciting except for some points. Couldn't really catch anything very special about the rapping aswell. Kind of middle of the road laid back hip hop album from the 90's. I understand that it supposed to be a classic, but I'm not sure it is for me. Not at all. Can feel the good intentions but it's not for me. Can't give more than a 2 unfortunately
1. The Humpty Dance (★★★☆☆) -Vale más el ritmo que el "canto"... 2. The Way We Swing (★★★☆☆) -Samplea a Hendrix y eso verdaderamente le da el toque... lo demás son negradas, cantos típicos de un negro yankee estimo, que por suerte no entiendo, pero no creo que le sume nada a nada, bien podría ser la instrumental sola y más valdría. 3. Rhytmin' on the Funk (★★☆☆☆) -El ritmo está más o menos, como dos estrellas, y el cantito de los negros resta y resta... 4. The New Jazz (★★⯨☆☆) 5. Underwater Rimes (★★⯨☆☆) 6. Gutfest '89 (★⯨☆☆☆) 7. The Danger Zone (★★☆☆☆) -Dos estrellas a la instrumental y 0 a los negros que hacen ruidos vocales... 8. Freaks of the industry (★⯨☆☆☆) 9. Doowutchyalike (★★☆☆☆) -Se me hizo eterna... 10. Packet Prelude (★★☆☆☆) 11. Sex Packets (★☆☆☆☆) 12. Street Scene (★☆☆☆☆) 13. Packet Man (★★★☆☆) -Tres estrellas por la base, lo demás no lo considero. 14. Packet Reprise (★☆☆☆☆) TOTAL = ★★☆☆☆ (2)
meh
This surely is a concept album with an… interesting concept. I don’t even want to get into the moral implications of the „sex packets“. But man, this thing is musically exhausting. Every single song goes on for way too long. Every interesting idea gets stretched out for WAY too long to the point that it looses any semblance of what made it intriguing in the first place. This was just a disappointing listening experience. There are traces of genius, no question - but they get buried in way too much fluff.
Been listening to a song that samples ‘The Humpty Dance’ for almost 30 years and finally listened to the full original. The whole album was a fun ride. Felt like I was in a 90s Hip Hop video. Some lyrics that caught me off guard but it was a vibe. Part comedy, part musical. Really enjoyed it.
Pretty good flow on this one and a really tight and punchy kick/bass drum that comes in hard and doesn't stick around very long. I really enjoyed that in particular. But obviously that can't entirely carry the album Standouts The Humpty Dance Freaks of the Industry 3/5
3/10
Sometimes, not sounding like anyone else can be a bad thing. But occasionally it can break new ground and help you stand out from the crowd. That’s what happened with Digital Underground on this album. Unique and creative lyrics. Funky beats and samples. And a truly one of a kind alter ego.
Load bearing parliament samples. Not unenjoyable but way too long. Funny at times and decent flow but just wears out it’s welcome. The title track is a genuinely interesting sci fi premise!
Oh okay, I remember the Humpty Dance. RIP Shock G. I also remember Doowutchyalike and like that one even more than Humpty Dance.
It was an Ok album. Very 90’s hip hop.
Corny, overtly strange, dated, boring garbage. Get it FAR away from me
The Humpty Dance?!?! Oh hell no. It is like the Beastie Boys with just a lot less talent.
Not my style but I can appreciate the musicianship.
Got "The Predator" by Ice Cube yesterday who dropped his first solo album the same year this came out. It must be said the difference between the two is night and day when it comes to rhymes, flow and production. Cube is one the greatest of course, but this sounds old and bad because it is.
2 out of 5. Something struck me listening to this album: do modern hip hop albums teach their listeners a dance anymore or is that outdated?
The Freaks of the Industry need to hear this one.
The worse of 90s hip hop
boppy fun little vibe. fun to jam to and such a classic 90's feel. the group hip hop sound is always a good time.
it's offensive that this is on the list
5/10
Ope
A stone cold classic. A perfectly balanced mix of abject stupidity and stupid fun. This album makes me significantly dumber but marginally happier.
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Offensively bad.
This is an insanely horny album. Better than I expected.
Hmm ...some of the lyrics a bit prepubescent .I won't listen again because not minding some of the music is not a recommendation
Lowkey groovocentric.
Back when rap was fun
eh, alright, not bad
Nonsense
Doesn’t feel like it’s aged particularly well. Not that I suspect it was much good back in the day anyway.
Sounds very dated and of very little musical importance. Less abrasive than other hip hop.
It’s OK fun in a kind of older skool hip hop sound and party vibe.
Amazing how much of this album I knew just from friends quoting it.
Rap
Perverse, reference laden, narratively oblique, full of words that don’t mean nothin, like luptid? Welcome back, James Joyce.
Lots of things to enjoy about this album. They were a bit flippant with the assigned 65 minute run time
Normally a fan of hip hop, but this seems so off the mark of where American hip hop would be at this time, lyrics wouldn’t have been fine today, so a bit cringe, was a chore to finish it
Guaranteed this is the only album on the list with lyrics about having sex in a Burger King bathroom.
It's fine!
oh I remember some of these. 2
I'm conflicted with this one, I think it was pretty good but then a few of the songs sounded exactly the same as others. Its better than a 2 but not quite a 3 for me.
"yo yo yo im here to say, I fuck women and beat them everyday!"
A fun, vulgar, and ultimately harmless blast of old-school hip-hop. Not everything has to be extremely serious to be good. These guys are funny and were groundbreaking at the time.
Digital Underground is a re-invention of P-Funk through an 90's lens. Full storytelling, characters, the beats, the samples. You can't open up with a track like that and not sing along. Not a bad moment on the entire album. The world is still looking for a definition of "lupid". My Rating: 5/5
I should like everything about this album. I think if the lyrics were just a little more diverse or tracks a little more fun/bumpy I could see this as an all timer
The early 1990s were full of artists pushing boundaries, often through sexually explicit content and profane lyrics. Albums with the Parental Advisory sticker became irresistible to curious kids, and Sex Packets by Digital Underground was one of those records. Aside from "The Humpty Dance," I was almost completely unfamiliar with the album. There’s no shortage of explicit content here, but the bigger issue is the album’s juvenile, often sexist humor, which frequently reduces women to punchlines and objects of conquest. Beyond the nostalgia hit of “The Humpty Dance,” the record quickly becomes repetitive, with most songs running several minutes longer than they need to. While I would gladly choose this album over many of the other rap albums on the 1001 Albums list that also focus on gats, drugs, and gang violence, I truly expected to enjoy it more than I did. Instead, by the end of its bloated 66-minute runtime, I was a bit exhausted and felt like I needed a shower.
Kinda fun, very misogynistic and the kind of shit British people would have elevated to #1 for 16 weeks.
Unique. I’ll give it 3 sex packets out of 5
This album is a lot of fun and very clever.
This was fun and had a lot to like. Unfortunately, "a lot" is still not enough to justify the album running 65+ minutes long. The length really made the album's gimmick become more grating than enjoyable. Musically and compositionally, the album fits pretty clearly in the late 80s/early 90s. The vocal deliveries often added to that feeling. While the instrumentation had a few stand out parts, it didn't really do anything that notable. I'm not sure if the concept really made it better or worse. It was entertaining, at least. Really, though, the issue boils down to run time for me. Despite the weirdness, I could definitely enjoy this for 40ish minutes. And I think I did, for the most part. But some of the songs just went on and on. As did the album itself. And this was apparently the short version (the cassette runs another 15 minutes per the wiki). It was too much for what they were doing. I liked this enough, but its flaws really bring it down a few notches for me. As a whole, I found it more fine than good. Overall: 2.6/5
No redeeming qualities.
The Humpty Dance is a classic, love that song! The rest of the album was alright, nothing really stood out to me as good or bad.
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. Oh goodness me. This is one of the crappest records I’ve ever had to listen to. Shitty hip-hop ‘concept’ album, where the incredibly juvenile is dreadfully presented, and lasts for over an hour. Utter, utter shit. How this is not in amongst the lowest rated albums on the app is beyond me.
I would have liked each song better if it was just half the length. But overall I thought this was very fun to listen to, I actually had to laugh a couple of times, but sometimes had to cringe a bit for inappropriate lyrics
The concept is maybe the most interesting thing about this album. It was way too long.
Eriniert mich an Tribe called Quest habs eig enjoyed, am meisten: The way we swing Underwater Rimes aber freaks of the industry schon crazy freaky. da haben sie echt den nagel auf den Kopf getroffen wtf
Dire
terrible
Something about this period of hip hop does not click with me.
Awesome album tbh, though a bit overlong. Glad I finally got the chance to do the hump. Also real Lonely Island heads know these guys aren’t the real freaks of the industry
i used to listen to this album all the time (never considered it to be afrofuturist until now) but the voice that shock g does when hes playing humpty hump makes me laugh soooo much. anyways the fun fact about these guys is that 2pac was their backup dancer for a long time and thats basically how i knew about them originally. fun tunes!
Humpty dance 4 life. My earliest memory of a babysitter is getting taught the accompanying dance to this song in the kitchen of my childhood home at approximately age 4 or 5.
The pervy soul of a 2 Live Crew album and the energy of classic early 90s hip hop. Humpty is still a classic.
Audacious reference to 17yo girls
Middle of the road and a bit forgettable.
this was so extremely bad and it felt really unnecessary
Some real bright spots in here, but its over an hour long and mostly very repetitive. The beats are almost universally excellent, but the songs are constructed in a way that makes me get tired of each of them by the end.
Fun! But is it a law for all hip hop albums to be at least 15 minutes too long?
An album that demonstrates the borderline between a fun album and a silly album. It has a sort of classic rap sound, though a bit imitation, with opening track The Humpty Dance giving hope that this could be not a classic but ok. However, it gradually loses the plot into long, meandering songs with awful lyricism that makes the album off putting. Making a concept album about some kind of pharmaceutical attempt to create sexual satisfaction in a pill is certainly *bold* for a debut album, and the way it’s handled makes it come across as crude, instead of with deftness and humour.
A truly dreadful album. ‘The Humpty Dance’ is an okay opener but nothing special, daft but kind of funny. Amazingly, it’s probably the highlight of the album, as after that it goes into a series of seemingly never-ending songs that are either painfully boring, lyrically icky, or both. ‘Gutfest ‘89’ and ‘Freaks of the Industry’ are probably the worst of both worlds here, but almost every track is too long and massively outstays its welcome (there’s no justification for ‘Doowhutchyalike’ being nearly nine minutes long; the fake fade-out should have been real). Basic beats, basic rapping, and terrible, off-putting lyrics.
Es Hip hop puro, se siente la calle, lo internacional, sonidos represantivos, a mi me gusta bastante y es de mis géneros favoritos , lo disfrute no seria algo que guarde en mi playlist pero si un dia quiero escuchar hipo hop sin duda lo escucharía
Total time capsule of an album. Sense of humor goes a long way here, but it starts to wear out its welcome down the road a bit. Chuck Klosterman says the 90s didn't start until '91 when the Berlin wall fell. By that logic, this album is definitely an 80s hip hop record. You can see some themes and ideas that were going to be bigger with gangsta rap, but this album is a little too Sugar Hill Gang for me.
this was very playful and creative, i enjoyed a lot of the grooves, good album, that’s what like about this challenge is that i’d never have heard this before but now i have
4/10 - too immature for me, a little bit of fun but I can't even imagine any of these songs in a club
good ols school beats, bad lyrics
Surprised to see this here. Three stars for some cool samples, and of course the Humpty Dance. wtf
Fine. Humpty Dance is so good though
Sex, ok got it.
pela capa eu tava esperando algo muuuuito pior pqp é só esquisito e datado, muitas vezes cansado, mas não é horrível
não eh ruim não, tem uns beats legais mas eh mei longo e sem mta variedade... pelo menos não se leva tanto a sério, então tá na média aí
Respect it, but it's not for me. Definitely has some choices I haven't heard before.
I have a couple thoughts. 1) I can definitely see why this was popular and influential. The beats on this are really good. 2) As it seems with a lot of late 80s/early 90s hip hop, these lyrics age very poorly. 3) I feel like they could have cut out a lot of the sex packets stuff and had a better album that aged a little better. 4) OR they lean entirely into the sex packets stuff and explore more into how people would react to/use these packets. Either direction would have produced a better album I think
I was excited about The New Jazz (one) it's the only track I didn't mind listening to on the album which says more about my own musical taste than what this album is.
The best part of this was the reminder to go listen to Chameleon for the billionth time.
I liked the fish song
A juvenile and dire hip hop album with absolutely no redeeming qualities.
Мощно. Sex Packets могла длиться и все 10 минут, честно, не хотел, чтобы она заканчивалась.
Lyrical and kind of nasty. It's actually rather funny.
Digital Underground was so talented that Tupac had to be relegated to dancer. This album starts with a hilarious hit, Humpty got bars. It continues with more bangers, interesting and layered beats, and clever, funny lyrics. MC Blowfish on "Underwater Rime" was an incredible experience. And the moaning sex song ends with Piano Man taking us out with a killer piano solo. Goddamn, what an album. The sex packets idea seemed to predict the future
It’s not the worst. Sometimes a little repetitive. It’s quite tongue in cheek but some parts and tracks are bangers
ngl, no me gusto, just not my thing i guess. me estaba gustando "packet man" hasta que llegué a _ese_ lyric... 1.5 que creo que bajo a 1.
Can't say I much enjoyed that.
Just not my vibe. Giving off Fresh Prince.. which may be racist... but It's just not compelling. it seems like they're acting too cool for school. and I love passion and cool rythmns. And the lyrics are very problematic.
When I first read it I thought it said Sex Pistols, clicked the link and the humpty dance came on… there was a real cheesy period of rap and this fit right in that. I can get down at times, but only a 2.3 for me.
I started out liking this album. It was chill, funky. But the tracks get really repetitive and long. If the tracks didn’t overstay their welcome, or had more variation in the backing tracks, this would be stronger for me. Again, this is not helped by the fact that I have a hard time following lyrics and their storylines on a first listen. 3/10 Ho Hum
I think even hardcore rap fans are forced to admit that nobody needs to listen to this in the 21st century.
Good but not quite something Im looking for all the time even in its own genre.
Oddly fun
Leuke old school hiphop, extra ster voor het goofy concept
Lyrical geniuses! Fucking bangers
echt nog tof
More dreary hip hop. It’s not terrible to be fair but you don’t need to listen to it.
Definitely dated and not really my cup of tea.
Ahhhhhhh eeeeeeeee I don't know about this one Jim
It's fine I guess. The Humpty Dance is enough of a classic, but my god is the album version long! The rest kinda just blends into the rest of the sort of hip hop of it's time.
Me gustó mucho el álbum. Me parece q sirve muy bien para freestyles. ♡
Meh (although I liked The Humpty Dance)
Why is every song over 5 minutes long? The Humpty dance was kind of fun, but not fun enough to justify this albums inclusion on the list. Too drawn out and way too much misogyny for me to enjoy.
The Humpty Dance and Doowutchyalike notwithstanding is a pretty forgettable late 80s hip hop album. It's dated by now, but still a fun listen.
Album #135 Digital Underground: Sex Packets Even if I’m going to put aside all of my reservations and actually try to enjoy a song like The Humpty Dance, I simply can’t keep up that charade for over an hour. Some absolutely baffling lines on this thing, that are at times actually funny, but only for how absolutely terrible they are. These guys are pretty much the personification of that kid you knew in school who only talked about having sex, when in reality he was a version, or just Jay from the Inbetweeners. I might not be a big rap fan, but I am very happy that this style has been left in the past, and the stuff we have on the radio doesn’t feel like you are being sexually assaulted, or as Digital Underground would put it, verbally raped. Best Song (I guess): The Humpty Dance Worst Song: Gutfest Score out of 10: 3
Every song went on for twice as long as it needed to. It all sounded quite basic.
Pretty goofy and in retrospect uncool rap and hip hop.
Not for me x
Ok
This was objectively bad. Dated bars, dated beats. But I had a wail of a time listening to it. Visibly and audibly cringed at moments. Literally terrible and overlong but loved it (kind of) parodically. Entertaining for sure.
The sampling of 'agony of de feet' and 'flashlight' was spot on! Solid r&b fun album early 90s.
здесь всё просто ужасно, от обложки до звучания. альбом состарился очень плохо и сейчас слушать его невероятно скучно, из-за того, что это 6-ти минутные треки на примитивные биты, без развития и с прямой читкой оценка: 1/5
Lyrical genius I like my oatmeal lumpy My nose is big like a pickle Last night underwater I saw a French mermaid
I was torn on this one. Really enjoyed it! Is it a 4? Is it a 5? I think 4.5 is where I will land.
It’s alright… some cool beats
80s/90s hip hop is so good, and this album is no exception. The concept of the album is hilarious and the music is great. Good rapping too.
I like old school gangster rap but this was a bit lackluster for me
ma name is humpty! !& underwater
Wait, this is a concept album? That concept was lost on me and my junior high classmates in the rural American Midwest when this album was released and we all were enjoying Humpty Dance.
I only knew the big song, but the rest of this was really fun!
Wow. I couldn’t make it through.
Songs were too long for me!
Respectfully… “Gross.”
I like old hip hop but this had songs that were way too long. Nothing really interesting.
Funkadelic hip hop
⭐️⭐️ i already listened to this about a year ago (before using this site to track progress), and i think one listen is enough for the most part. first couple tracks are fun but after that, there's very little worth wasting over an hour of my time to listen to
Niet mijn hiphop
The yin to Fear of a Black Planet's yang. Hated this top to bottom, and it gets more and more ridiculous as the tracks go on. Turns out concept records can suck in every genre!
Oh man, 90s hybrid rnb/hip hop. Even they admit they aren’t clear what they are, but it’s fun and a vibe It definitely set the scene for great things.
Good hip hop album! Didnt know them but i rlly liked it.
Pretty lame album. Ridiculously repetitive and the dumbest lyrics. Barely makes a 2.
This is very much an album with low-key vibes, it has pretty melodic hooks (mainly early on) and of course has the iconic line of "Hey, fat girl, come here are you ticklish?" in it; that line is as classic as it gets in hip-hop. The rappers from the Digital Underground seem pretty witty with their wordplay, especially Humpty Hump himself, I had trouble keeping up with who was rapping but he was one that I managed to remember (because introduced himself in the first song.) Some bad points for this album are the length of some songs, which wouldn't be as bad if they weren't so repetitive and the chorus frequently coming back was just annoying. I would say this was an enjoyable album when you weigh all of the pros and cons together, though a re-listen would have to be down the track. 65 minutes of this stuff was a bit draining. Good album for the mid-school vibe. Highlight Song/s: "The Humpty Dance", "Underwater Rimes (Remix)" and "Packet Man"
I didn't hate it, but I didn't gain anything from my listen.
I feel like a nice big bowl of cereal after listening to this album.
Rating: 4.0/5 Short Review: Playful, weird, and completely unserious in the best way. Funk-heavy, loose, and not trying to be “important” at all. Feels like a party that doesn’t care if you get it or not. Favorite Track: “The Humpty Dance.” Ridiculous, catchy, and somehow iconic. You don’t choose to like it, it just happens.
This sits right in the sweet spot of hip-hop/rap for me, the humor and fun aspects are still there, P-funk samples are plenty and just a well put together album.
Pas mal juste j'étais pas dans le mood
As if Frank Zappa produced the most obnoxious rap music ever made …
Meh. It has that old school hip-hop sound that I'm just not crazy about. Although I can see why this may have been both influential and controversial in its day, as it's pretty raunchy and covers some topics that were not this explicitly (pun intended) talked about in 1990. The whole "Sex Packet" suite thing at the end of the album is mildly entertaining, but that's about the only redeeming quality.
“I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom!” This Humpty guy comes on pretty strong. It’s sometimes fun and the beats sound pretty good. It’s also obviously dated and the writing is more jarring as the album goes on. I’d like to be in on the joke and have a laugh with everyone, but man I was grimacing by the end of this. The central concept seems like something a teenager came up with with his friends during a particularly rowdy lunch period. Call me a killjoy, I guess. It’s also burdened by long track times. The 65 minute length would be par for the course for a 90s hip hop album, but the songs themselves are simply too long. I’m rating it higher for the production and influence, but at a certain point I just could not wait for the album to end. Alas I cannot match their freak. Nice and also weird to hear my guys The Who get name-dropped.
Ok.
Started thinking this could be a 4. Too long and got much worse as the album went on.
Platitude non pertinente.
I like the guy in "The Way We Swing" who sounds like Jimmy Stewart... "The way we schwing" Oh! He comes back as MC Blowfish in "Underwater Rimes" 😂 I'm not sure you can really call this a concept album when the "concept" is only really explored in the last 4 songs.
Underwhelmed and puzzled by a lot of the musical choices made. There are times where this album really clicks, but those moments are drowned in cringey lyrics, dated meta humor, and songs drawn out impossibly long. Maybe this album would have been better to listen to when it first came out, but it comes off as incredibly dated if nothing else. A few gems and a lot of skippable if more popular songs. Top tracks: Underwater Rimes, The Danger Zone
Not a great album. Very 80’s
Cover de fou furieux c'EST QUOI CA aura au moins le mérite de m'avoir fait rire. Funky à souhaits
Ennuyeux et répétitif, c'est pas un excellent moment à passer en 2026. L'album a bien vieilli et ne se laisse pas écouter si facilement. Note : 2 À réécouter : Non
At best, it sounds like an average Prince album. At worst it’s just an ordinary soundtrack of the early 90s. Not sure I would listen again. 2.5 stars (Feeling generous, we’ll call it 3)
Nah
Doesn't do it any favours that it came right after The Fugees this week, their densely referential, smart rhyming making this look even more dumb and adolescent than it maybe is. Brain switched off I could imagine someone gets some dumb fun from this - the beats are pretty easy - but it's so, so lyrically basic. Ten minutes in I realised there was a whole hour of it and I lost the will to live, and that was before I reached the really dubious stuff. At its best when at its most forgettable.
the answer is D