Sex Packets

This didn't really do much for me. I like some 80's/90's hip hop, but this didn't hit it. I never really got into a rhythm with any of the songs, much less the album.

Records like this are called "one-hit wonder albums". They pop up relatively infrequently on this list, and for good reason: there just isn't much justification for their inclusion. This is an album compilation, not an "iconic songs" playlist. Pablo Honey didn't make the list, but Sex Packets did? Unacceptable. The Humpty Dance is undeniably iconic. Everybody and their hip-hop-crazed mother knows the line "do the humpty-hump": it's up there with "dolla dolla bills y'all" and "mama said knock you out". Great little snippets of horn lines and backing vocals to punctuate Digital Underground's lead vocals. And just about the most "golden age hip-hop" sound you can imagine. It turns out, when the lyrics aren't horrifically misogynistic, rapey, or violent, the genre accidentally creates a masterpiece or two. Cool hook-melody in The Way We Swing, although after the first six minutes it gets a little stale. The guys bar-singing that melody at the fadeout is pretty sweet, though. Underwater Rimes rips the bassline from the Hancock-penned jazz standard Chameleon. The track itself is barely passable but much, much worse than any big-band dub over that sweet bassline. I have no clue what's happening lyrically in Gutfest '89 but it's pretty gross and I'm glad those 6 minutes are behind me. The bassline in Freaks Of The Industry is worth a shoutout: it's easily the highlight of the track. Reminiscent of Let There Be More Light (which is itself one of Pink Floyd's strongest basslines). Great laid-back piano solo towards the end. This is the strongest track so far, barring the lead single. Doowutchyalike tosses all of that freaky goodness aside, making way for an unremarkable 9-minute slog with some scattered decent moments. The best moment, though, is the moment of silence in the middle. And at this point we have so much wasted time on one record that I can't give this anything higher than 2 stars. Trim it down, Digital Underground. I'm on the fence about the title track. It commits to this mysterious thin-textured mood that doesn't really appeal to me. The lyrics are weak and nearly identical to the next full-length song, Packet Man. But the latter is infinitely more musically interesting, so that one passes the check. Great bluesy guitar riff. Not a fan of the large number of interludes (4 out of 14 tracks). Interludes can work in small numbers, assuming they add something musically interesting to the preceding and succeeding tracks. Really the only role they perform in Sex Packets is breaking up the lengthier tracks. (Seriously. Pretty much every full-length track here is between 5 and 9 minutes long.) To its credit, The New Jazz (One) is solid, but would have worked significantly better as a full-length track. 2/5 Key tracks: The Humpty Dance, Freaks Of The Industry, Packet Man

The first track is kind of epic in its own right. But in all this is not for me. It felt like the production was actually pretty good.

Why is every song at least 7 minutes long? I just don't get it. Honestly you almost could just listen to the Humpty Dance and then turn this album off.

Sex Packets was the nickname Len Houmous coined for Ken Chutney after they had a night out with Gladys Knight’s Pips. 2.4 2/14 The Way We Swing

Dated and not something I'd really want to listen to, fun at times and some ok beats.

Bit of funk but of rap but not overwhelming. Didn’t stick.

Low/mid 2. First rap record I haven't vibed with here, just felt too goofy

Not my thing vry fun tho

Not the sex packets I've been wishing for

Some interesting songs on there, but mostly underwhelming.

Aged prod, poor delivery, uninteresting lyrics, long-winded... Nothing disgusting, but I'm still searching what this thing was trying to offer.

Was very excited when this album started off with a strong hip hop beat. But this first track is absolutely ridiculous. The lyrics don’t take themselves seriously at all. I do really like the bassline in the background and the cadence of the lyrics though. The lead singer has a very very smooth and enunciated voice which is nice to listen to. Simple rhyme schemes make this easy listening. I love how meta it is calling out the bassline in the break. The Way We Swing starts off a lot mellower and slower than the first track. I really really like this one. A much more mature sound while still having fairly unserious lyrics. More tame bassline with a bit more reliance on the main guitar lick. Not a huge amount to say about Rhymin on the Funk. Was okay I guess? Oh I love the false starts in The New Jazz (One). Oh just a tiny track? That’s a shame because it was sounding great. Underwater Rimes starts with a very funky spoken intro. Really like the distorted ad-libs in the background. This album really is just not for me. Listened to another 5 tracks there. If I have to hear them refer to biscuits one more time I’m not finishing this record. It’s just not for me. Lyrics are terrible. My favourite part of this album was when I took my headphones off to wash my face.

There’s better 90’s hip hop to listen to

This really hit that beautiful mark of this is hilarious and I don’t know that it meant to be. Dimmery what are you doing to me. I don’t know, this thing is funny if you don’t take it seriously. Like the way we schwing? Yeah goes from this is funny to insanely bad. Why is every song 7 minutes long. All the sex packet related songs were so bad and gross and just terrible. Not even charmingly funny or anything. Won’t be returning to this one at all but glad to know the humpty dance now that my dad has been referencing for my whole life.

Completely new to me, as the Humpty Dance wasn't a hit in the UK. I'm not sure we were missing much. The concept could actually have been interesting because the idea of substituting technology for sex is more relevant now than it was in 1990. It could have been a prescient exploration of how that might affect human intimacy. It isn't, of course. It's a silly adolescent fantasy about making women disposable (and men, but mostly women). Oh well

I like the music—good beats, some jazz mixed in, lots of samples. I can see a path from here to someone like Thundercat. But I don’t think it’s aged particularly well, especially the lyrics. It was undeniably novel when it came out and there are some fun moments, like “Rhymin’ on the Funk.” In general, I liked the first half better, when they are establishing their approach and their flow. The second half, a kind of sex fantasy concept album, fell flat for me.

Not my area

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.

I guess this sort of a missing link between the 80s Run DMC stuff and the gangsta rap to come but it came across more cringey than both. Lots of things that don't make sense here, I'm left with a lot of questions. Is he saying he's strange looking because he is Humpty Dumpty, or is it just a name? Does he actually look weird? Why are there two tracks about a conceptual sex drug? Actually liked the beat on the first one, probably my favourite track. Didn't fully understand this but I know I didn't like it.

the funkadelic baselines were fun but it got old past "the humpty dance"

It is not that it sucks but it's just hip-hop and I skipped almost every track. 1,5

Musically these guys are competent, if not very original. The lyrics are juvenile, but sometimes fun.

Some unreal basslines but more sex pest than anything

Too horny

Not bad but not great, way too horny for a Wednesday morning

2/5

The sound isn't entirely terrible. But it is terribly dated, especially the lyrics. And far too long. Cut it in half and you'd have a much better album that would score a point higher perhaps. Even with the lyrics.

I had doubts about this immediately after seeing the title Sex Packets, and my doubts were confirmed after listening to just the first track, “The Humpty Dance.” Hearing an MC who unironically calls himself “Humpty” rapping lines like “I’m spunky” and “I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom” was simply dreadful. The rest of the album was similarly plagued by faux-macho, misogynistic rubbish. I’m refraining from giving this one star, though, because by the end of the album, I couldn’t help but think that the majority of the backing beats were actually rather good. If you were to shave about 25 minutes off this, completely redo the rhymes with a better flow, and shift the content toward themes you’d hear on a funk record, you might have something quite good. Another thought stayed with me, specifically the line “Does this record bother you? If so, you need to leave it alone” I think I’ll follow that advice.

They really thought they were cookin with this sex packet stuff…they were not.

Lots of questionable dated stuff here. The Humpty Dance is always a fun tongue-in-check jam. After that we get into women’s bodies and rape along with sci-fi sex and rapping about how good at rapping we are. Just doesn’t do it for this amount of time…

I only knew The Humpty Dance. Not my favorite hip hop album. The lyrics were overly sexual and misogynistic.

vile album title

Funky but not for me.

Old-school rap album that feels really dated, is named after condom wrappers, and that comes across as really misogynistic. I didn't hate listening to it when I wasn't paying attention to the words. The music is fine if old sounding. The lyrics are dumb as hell, though.

I don’t mind the sound of this but it felt long. Gutfest 89 was quite fun? And I liked the radio spoken word interludes and announcements

Normally I’m into sillier lyrics, but these are just so corny and delivered in such a sleepy way that I just can’t get into it. Then it’s only worsened by the fact that every song goes on for so long

"The Humpty Dance" is an incredible piece of work but what a fucking 180 degree turn into "The Way We Swing" I mean jesus christ i'm not gonna pretend I know what to say about this album. I don't. I'll give them this: no one will ever be able to say this album isn't interesting to listen to. Whatever it is, it's not boring!

RIP Shock G. Starts off really strong (the delight in this man’s voice when he says “yeah I called ya fat, look at me I’m skinny” makes me laugh 100% of the time) and then just kind of keeps going. One of my favorite things to do is try to spot things that influenced an artist and, in turn, things they have themselves influenced. The intro to Gutfest '89 very helpfully did this for me by listing a bunch of artists with whom Digital Underground have chosen to associate with themselves at this fictional event. The Who, The Clash, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock. Gives us a good idea of where Digital Underground see themselves.

I usually like funk, really wasn’t enjoying this

Funny nonsense.

The opener is a fun song. The second track insanely repetitive…a vibe that continued thoughout. No need to revisit this one. 2/5

dit album is uiterst geschikt voor mensen die lijden aan slapeloosheid... na twee minuten lig je gegarandeerd in dromenland

Tää oli ihan hauskaa kiimaräbää, mut loppua kohti vitsi alkaa olla aika kulunut. 2/5

Erm, some interesting tracks in here but doesn’t quite reach the bar for 3

Estuvo bien, no lo volvería a escuchar porque se me hizo muy repetitivo.

I probably have a screed to write about how hip hop doesn’t hold up very well (largely because it is ever-shifting and evolving in ways both good and bad) but Sex Packets, while perhaps the ideal subject for that analysis, is not quite worth the time despite the affection I once had for it (and somewhat perplexed feelings as I really was too young to get some of it in the phys. ed. sense). DU gave birth to a character I genuinely didn’t know was an alter ego until much later in life and also Tupac. There’s a lot here and also not very much at all beyond token novelty.

Interesting. My standout song is ‘Packet Reprise’ and that says a lot because it’s the only song without lyrics.

I still don't really know what a sex packet is.

Weird sexual album with some sexual themes that honestly aged like milk in the hot sun. It's a shame too as songs at the start like the humpty dance and underwater rimes are a lot of fun, but once it hits gutfest it gets real weird

I'm sure it is good but it's not my thang.

When I signed up to do this project, there was a sense of resignation when it came to the high likelihood that I would completely hate some of the albums, but I committed to listening to them with an open mind. This one elicited so many cringes it’s a miracle I didn’t turn it off before the end. It’s so painfully stupid. I refuse to give it too much credit for having some good, funky beats because the rhymes and flow are so immensely corny, dated, and childishly horny. Still, the beats and production earn it 2 stars rather than 1. There was so much good hip hop in this era, I don’t get why this one made the list.

Funk is good. Rhymes is good. Stop the presses! I think I'm done.

I'm sorry, I gotta hear this why?

This might have been iconic or groundbreaking at the time, but it has not aged well. Mid bars and boring production. Another reason East Coast >>>>> West Coast

Found it kinda of funny for some songs but with beats that didn't move me. I can appreciate how others would later build on it, but I wouldn't listen to it again

boring song loop over and over

Props on them for sounding pretty 90's in just 1990, but hiphop got a lot better later on imo. Faves: The Humpty Dance, Doowutchyalike

Cool album cover. Certainly sounds like the 90s. Doowutchyalike was an interesting song with the radio fade break. Never really got into this one.

The "Humpty Dance" was okay, but the rest was sadly puerile.

This doesn't even crack the top ten hip hop albums for 1990. Some pretty bad tracks on this one

For a time and place, it’s good stuff! Felt very same-same? For general listening, not for me.

It was that good old school vibe but probably wouldn’t listen through again on my own

It was okay, interesting that they were the intellectual rap group. I need some heat soon tho generator, I’m not playin.

Maybe not every single song needs a 4 minute outro

Listenable rap.

Chapa

2.9

Undoubtably influential, deeply weird. Someone had to keep the party going while Chuck D was yelling about politics and Eazy-E about slinging dope. Managing to bring the party while also making a concept album about a sci-fi digital sex drug is an accomplishment in itself.

It will never not make me laugh that they put time, effort, and energy into creating some kind of sci-fi alternate universe and it came out corny as fuck. 2/5

I'm not sure which is more problematic, the music or the lyrical content

Is this good? No, not really. Does it represent an era? Unfortunately, yes messy cultural snapshot of the late 80's It hasn’t aged well, but there is some genuinely interesting music buried in here, like corn in a turd. It’s not 2 Live Crew-level chaos, but let’s not pretend it’s high art either.

Garbage.

Not really my cup of tea, but never got to the point of absolute loathing.

Wasn’t really into this. The Way We Swing uses the riff from Who Knows (Hendrix) in such an obvious way that it seems insulting. Using the bass line for Chameleon in Underwater Rimes also just provoked an eye roll. The songs are overly long and all stagnate. I do get that if I had heard this when it came out I would more than likely have a different opinion, and for it’s time, it’s ok.

Not really my cup of tea

6/10 Favourite: The Humpty Dance Least Favourite: The Danger Zone

Yep.

Gracioso pero no me liaria.

If you take it for how silly and immature it is, it's not bad and pretty funny but I'd never listen to this twice.

Not sure this album is a change changer or one that everyone should listen to in their lifetime. It has two tracks I like and that it's. I would rate it one but that means it's as bad as the Mekons, which it is are not! Sadly Two stars are a stretch 🫤

I was not into this one. The Humpty Dance totally caught me off guard, and it kind of irked me. The context that this album is meant to be commentary/a satirical concept album is very important, because I didn't know that until after the fact and was a little disgusted. That being said, I do think it's well-made and a good example of hip-hop/funk. But I couldn't get into the actual music, and I was really not into the song where a woman was moaning in the background the whole time. I don't think this album aged particularly well. I did like that they had some fun concepts, like Underground Rimes and the gutfest song that started with a commentator/announcer.

bro needs to take a cold shower and take a walk. I understand that during this time period the rap that was being put out was mainly political statements but this album is to horny for me to really enjoy without laughing out due to the weirdness of the bars

Okay I listened to this is 3 parts as I was running errands today (Nov 13). As such I'm doing notes from memory. This album is hilarious and idk I think it's only partially intentional. I love this era of hip hop but I was asking myself is this an important record in the history of hip hop? I don't know much about it but crazy if true! Humpty Dance is actually sick, that bassline is so cool, never heard something like that before. Love this dudes voice. Underwater Rimes into Gutfest '89 is what kinda lost me. The rest of the record felt like a novelty. The mobster verse in Underwater Rimes had me cackling in the car tho. 1-2 seeee.. well I'm a deep sea gangsta, underwater pranksta, kissin all the girl fish, dissin all the ??? Freaks of the Industry I actually kinda liked too haha, I'm into these story-songs, a friend bragging to another friend, like "this is what I did...", Pharcyde is my reference here. A couple nice piano moments scattered throughout! Track 11 is when we learn that this is an insane concept record (read wiki)????? Packet Man had me laughing in the grocery store.

"your wife looks just like a fat blue grouper" Starts off big with Humpty Dance. That bassline is bonkers. I love when he sings to the bassline in the middle lmao. I guess I liked Slick Rick back in the day, but otherwise this sort of funky funny rap from the 90s was never my jam. That being said I do love newer funny rap (YN Jay, RXK Nephew, Rio da Yung OG, Lil B, etc. etc.) so I will rock with this and see how we do. Underwater Rimes is great lmao. The underwater mouth sounds that repeat. Had to look up whether this album invented the 'hip hop skit'. I guess consensus is De La Soul beat them to it a year earlier but still pretty cool that this tradition still lives on. Haven't thought about it intentionally in a while but it is suuuuuch a cool generic tradition fuck. I think mainly what brings me out of it are the drum grooves. I've never liked the swung beats of the 90s and at the end of the day, the beats are so much of what keep me around. OK the sampling on 'Sex Packets' is beautiful. Those first 12 seconds had me like confused in the best way. PACKET REPRISE!

This is a lot of long, meandering raps. I checked out for a lot of it. But Underwater Rimes got me back. Did Marlon write this?

As far as Hat Rap goes this isn’t too horrible. But not the most fun. It’s so long! And I get it guys, yall are Horny bois. God damn. Relax.

Ugh, I guess they make good use of some samples but why do so many hip hop acts feel the need to be so juvenile? It put me in mind of going on dating apps and being bombarded by men looking for ‘dirty talk’, sexy pics or demanding to come to your house/place of work immediately for sex. Tedious and something I don’t wish to repeat ever again. 1.5

I do not love this

great grooves but the lyrics did not age well. theres also no reason each song needs to be 6 minutes or more. if you chopped this down to runtimes that dont let the beat get stale its probably a 3.

This feels very much of its time. The 80s. Hip hop, before it took so much Rap and R&B influence. Similar vocals to Fresh Prince of Bellaire.

- Enjoying the funk of the beats and sampling, the production is clean, too, except for everything being way too long. - The lyrics are pretty bad in a lot of spots (like the entire Underwater Rimes). I know it was the 90s, so it’s definitely dated in that respect. - I started getting pretty tired of the album at the second half of doowutchyalike. Then, it got sexist and explicit. Call me a prude, but I don’t want to hear explicit sex stories from random dudes. - The first half of the album, I liked enough, the second half, I strongly disliked. That whole sex packet thing went on waaaay too long. Was going to rate it a 3, but knocked it down after the second half.

Not my thing, but, okay sure.

it's fun how early rap sounds so slow like they're actually under water. still dont have patience to listen something like this without skipping. but i can see it working as a background music

Tried listening to this before since I heard it was similar to Dr. Octagon's Dr. Octagonecologyst. Honestly, couldn't disagree more. The concept I guess is in the same realm, but it's just not as interesting or funny for me as Dr. Octagon is. Combine that with the more old school rapping/rhyming, and the incredibly repetitive beats (along with the songs a lot of times being overly long), and I'm just not feeling this. Nothing in it is really offending me, it's just nothing is interesting to me either.

My childhood memories didn’t live up to my adult experience.

Some nice ideas but doesn't work for me

I love hip hop and was excited to explore a piece of its roots, but I can't say I liked this much. There are some creative moments, but the project is too long and inconsistent.

Masterclass in sampling, but I don't love the final product. It's a shame Humpty Dance opens the album as it's easily the weakest track. I don't resonate a lot with this style but more importantly there's not a lot of ebb and flow with these tracks. They seem pretty same-y overall.

Funky

This 🤝 Be Here Now Almost ending the album with an incredibly long repetitive song, then following it up later with a 'reprise' that no one asked for.

How are you gonna call an album Sex Packets and then wait until the album's three quarters of the way done to introduce the thing you named the album after? Also, every song on this album is 3 minutes too long, except the two 30 second interludes and the title track. Fun ideas and a somewhat fun delivery, but this album could be cut down to 5 tracks and not lose much.

Did he seriously just say a woman was diseased for weighing 66 pounds?

It started out okay...and I am not a prude, but it was just all sex and just got dull after a while. Yes that was the concept of the album, taking a sex pill but it was just over and over freak sex from a dude's perspective. So it just really was one note and not all that great. The rhymes and rapping were slow and obvious, nothing impressive or different. There were some cool funkadelic beats and they overlaid it with some new more electronic sounds but those didn't save it from being overly reliant on their need to have freaky sex and remind everyone they are the underground. Things towards the end just drug...Doowutchyalike did not need to be that long and then packet had like five songs surrounding it. The concept was just not enough to save this one.

This is one tedious, stupid album. There are a couple of fun, vapid songs like "Humpty Dance" and "Doowutchulike," but all go on way too long and are repetitive as hell. And, lyrically, there's nothing there, just empty, cartoonish back and forth that gets old very quickly. And the elements that are interesting such as jazz interludes here and there pass by quickly and are gone, replaced by another monotonous song about the wonders of using condoms (or some magic sex pill?) A puerile slog of an album

# 592 : Sex Packets "Cringe" - I still don't like Rap / Hip Hop. I'd give it one star, but a couple of things were ok, so 2 stars... maybe.

This was long and some of the songs were not great.

This is bad 1990s hip hop. It is so dated; the 1990 sound is practically a time and date stamp. Very trebly and vocals way high in the mix, and over an hour long. It’s so amusingly low effort and dated, I can’t even rouse myself to hate it.

Humpty is still good

I like a few tracks but I was starting to get tired by the middle of the album. I feel like I have just been so used to modern rap that I am not accustomed to hearing 90s rap which is a whole different ballgame in terms of rhythms and lyrics and meaning. I disliked the album more than I liked so for that reason it is getting a 2 instead of a 3.

90s hip hop, a bit too obvious for my taste but it was good fun

Not for me

Honestly, I didn't enjoy this which was unexpected. Outside of Humpty Dance (which is fantastic), it's a pretty mediocre 80's rap album.

there’s a beautiful piece of piano randomly on this album. other then that, definitely showing its age. what’s a sex packet?

Not sure why this is here..

The way this started maan idk its just a weird one. High 2 I guess?

"Cause I know I'm the poop Steaming hot Stinking up the dance floor"

I found this album unserious and uninteresting. There was not much to redeem this one. I listened though but not necessarily glad I did.

I guess I should t be surprised sex packets is horny as hell

Utdatert, pubertal one-hit-wonder fra nittitallet. Lett fengende i flekkan, men kunne likegodt vært Aqua...

Tällasia on kuultu jo ylltätävän monta haasteen aikana. Toistaa melko liiaksi itseään.

Humpty Dance carries. 2.5 stars

Yeah, this is the kind of hip-hop I don't like one bit. Lazy, dreadful lyrics, and a chore to get through. Two stars.

I mean, maybe it was influential?

I'm sorry, I tried

5,2/10

Jeg kommer nok ikke til at høre det igen, men der er lidt humor og selvironi, som har manglet i noget af det andet rap, jeg har været igennem.

This album feels very dated. It was hard enough getting through the first song let alone the full 65 minutes. Not for me.

I mean, it's loooooonnnnnnngggggg. A concept album about genetics and sex and whatever - I'm sure it was hilarious when they came up with it. Considering they sample so much P-Funk you could argue this is a George Clinton off shoot, it's amazing how much I don't want to dance. Well done. I never need to word "humpty" ever again. It's doing a lot of heavy lifting. Best Tracks: The Humpty Dance; Rhymin' on the Funk; Packet Man

Nagy hatással van erre a rap albumra a funk, pl.Rhymin’ on the Funk szamukon megjelenik a Pralamient - Flaslight témája is. Szövege nem irodalmi, inkább a körülményekre reflektív, semmi mélyebb igazsagot,megfejtest nem tartalmaz. Underwater Rimes cámokun Herbue Hancock Chameleon basszus témája.

To nie tak, że nie bujało. Bardzo rytmiczny, lekki rap. Ale te teksty, jezu te teksty. Jestem kobietą i dostałam skrętu kiszek z tej żenady. Gdybym chciała godzinę słuchać o tym jak ktoś jest napalony to odpaliłabym sobie redpillowego youtube’a. Odejmuję gwiazdkę za ten przestarzały duch. 4.5/10

This undeniably sucks, but it's sort of charming. You can tell they had fun making this! I appreciate that -- but at the end of the day, it still sucks.

Well it was funny. I think it’s intentional. Peaked on track 1. I almost got up and did a little Humpty Dance all of my own.

That’s a lot of unpleasantness hanging off a couple of novelty songs.

humpty dumpty danced on a wall / humpty dumpty had a great fall

I dig the sci fi concept album. But man, I just couldn’t groove with this with how dated the production is.

A handful of classic party time hip hop tunes, but the songs/album are a bit to long for me

The songs are very long and I didn't find this to be super enjoyable.

Sorry - not my taste

2.5

Old school sex obsessed hip hop. It was pretty okay.

Mostly cheesy late 80s hip hop. Feels like a better representation of the genre exists to replace it on here.

Silly 90s hip hop about fucking. The sound isn’t amazing, the rapping voice is pretty bad.

Really feels dated. Some fun verses. Interesting combo at points of live instrumentals + beats. That said, it’s pretty hokey and repetitive.

Strange inclusion for me. Listenable and even enjoyable, but would have been dated at the time and probably should have been left where it was.

J - 2/5 Best Track - "The Humpty Dance"

Holy 90’s

not my fav

Of course the Humpty Dance was inescapable in 1990 but I had no idea how epically stupid Digital Underground was. So epic I had to give it an extra star. This is like an advil to temporarily clear up 90's nostalgia.

Not horrible, super outdated, crazy to see what other hip hop was being made around the same time and how superior most of that is to this.

The last gasp of the second wave of hip hop - lots of the basic nursery rhyme cadence in the raps but with seeds of the soul & funk sample heavy dj scratching boom bap /proto g-funk style, the wordy flow and interplay of Native Tongues, and the sing songy pop choruses and dance breaks that would soon blow up mc hammer, naughty by nature and vanilla ice. Dumb concept album stuff, but hey at least it's not another rock opera about a sci fi dystopia where it's illegal to rock. Favorites: freaks of the industry, underwater rimes

The most confusing concept album ever. Just, why?

If I wasn’t a shit white dude and was in fact a class African-American this is how I would want to write hip hop - I’m gonna make fun of you, talk about how great I am and maybe tell you how to do a lil dance. This is fucking great. There’s something educational about record. I have no idea what it is but I definitely felt like I was learning something. RIP Humpty Hump. 3.4/5 JF

Before rap music was on MTV and the radio, before rappers started putting out records... hip-hop was a festive culture that had mainly one goal : play records and tell jokes so people would dance and have fun at block parties. This is indeed a party album that somehow feels connected to these roots : it doesn’t take itself seriously, it doesn’t try to be « artsy », it’s just plain old-fashionned fun. I lack knowledge of the specific context of this album, so I can’t really judge if it was relevant or not when it came out. It does however feel outdated now ; it’s old-school even for 1989, and not all the beats and lyrical experiments have aged well. Some songs are really, really long – which is nice when you’re high and dancing, but quickly feels boring when actively listening at home. By the end of the album it felt like a chore. Tracks are hit and miss – some are funky, while others are annoying I didn’t hate it, but I won’t listen to it again, one try was enough.

Ok

Not my thing, but can appreciate it.

Meh. Kinda a mixed bag for me. Contrary to popular opinion, I thought the concept section on the back end was the strongest part of the album. The front end oscillated between bland and juvenile and ran undeniably too long. I can understand why some would find the lyrics cringy, but I found them no more offensive than, say, Prince - just with more emphasis on camp than class. Far, far from the worst this journey has to offer, but not a particularly interesting nor pioneering entry, either.

I think my probably with concept albums is that comes off better in idea than execution. The idea for this album was wild, and I was excited for this. Sadly, this didn’t hit the mark. I will give it a little grace as it wasn’t terrible, but it did fall flat.

Ha ha I dunno man. This is out there. The album cover and title made me laugh several times throughout the day. Sex Packet.

After the massive lead off hit Humpty Dance, the album does go in a different direction.

Didn't entirely care for this one.

This is insanely long, the skits need to go, and the Humpty song being six and a half minutes is madness. Fine enough to listen to and of its time but don't think this is mandatory.

Why would anyone want the Humpty Dance to be that long? The tracks have a fun energy but it is upsetting how long this album is. Some good flow and 90s beats but I don't see myself revisiting this.

Not really, no

I somehow missed this in 1990?! Even with the sexy themes, it’s somehow less edgy than a Fresh Prince album. Yikes. Are we sure this wasn’t a colossal joke? I rounded up to two stars.

Not a big fan of this album. It feels really dated both in how inappropriate some of the sexual references (talks about rape and giving a "sex packet" to a 17 year old) and the rapping style. A lot of the MC Hammer era rappers all sound the same and it's pretty corny in my opinion.

This was corny. Did not really like it.

The Humpty Dance is an iconic hip hop song.....The rest of the album is alright at best. Definitely not something I think deserves to be on a 1001 albums before you die list.

You probably had to be there. Do the humpty 🤣

Step 1: recoil at cover Step 2: ok soni recognise mr humpty Step 3: 10 minutes in, this isnt as bad as i thought i was going to be, fairly innocuous bouncy rap Step 4: ok, this is really starting to grate now Step 5: hold the fuck on, these lyrics are wild Step 6: this is genuinely terrible, how did this het made? Step 7: thank christ thats over, i'll give them marks for ambition, but not much else

Sure, I'll listen to the full record that The Humpty Dance comes from. Why not. It was so fucking corny. Like horny in the most "what the fuck are you even saying", weird guy way. I don't think you can get how corny and embarrassing it is unless you listen to it yourself. It was also over an hour long. It sucks. But I've heard worse on this list. Moving on.

I suppose it's a sign of the art form's evolution that rappers, like their prog-rock brethren before them, could come up with a half-baked, interminably horny concept for their concept album and wrap a bunch of ponderous, overlong songs around it. If only they understood anything about what would actually be sexy - better rhymes, for one. To take just one example: the song with all the moaning in the background also contains an extended discussion of the technical aspects of soundproofing the room where you're doing the deed. We are not aroused.

Not terrible, exactly, but this was pretty weird and I couldn't get away from the feeling I was listening to some guy detailing his very specific fetish in great detail.

unbearable cover

Barely notable as a "serious" Rap album. This one only registers because of the novelty hit song, "The Humpty Dance". Maybe a later Digital Underground recording would be interesting as peek at future superstar Tupac Shakur, but he wasn't even a member of DU at this time. As it sits, this album belongs with Tone Loc's "Loc-ed After Dark" and DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's "He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper." Sure, they had big his in the dance clubs, on the radio, and on MTV, but they are not worthy of the "must listen" tag. Speaking of Novelty acts, I will be seriously disappointed if we don't get a crack at something from "Weird Al" Yankovic's discography. That man is a treasure and he deserves the "must listen" designation and a spot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Feel free to fight me on this...you'll lose, sucker.

Other than the Humpty Dance this album is meh.

There's no need for so many of these songs to be over 5 minutes long.

it's definitely pretty raucous, especially for the time. I'm not gonna lie, some of the discordant percussion between the scratching and the drum sample sort of throws me. Didn't listen to the whole thing, and total content with that.

Absolutely hilarious lyrics that I couldn’t take seriously and were kinda shocking? Found it a bit long Favourites: the humpty dance, underwater rimes

These guys are delusional. It’s so stupid it almost makes me not want to plug my ears.

Tyyris tyllerö istui seinällä, Tyyris tyllerö putosi hienosti; Kaikki kuninkaan hevoset ja kaikki kuninkaan miehet eivät voineet koota Tyyristä uudelleen. Rotanpaskaa, paskanpaskaa, likainen vanha pillu, 69 peräreikää sidottu solmuun. seksiäänet liitetty sampleen mukaan on aina klassikko mutta rohkeata laittaa femiinisiä miesääniä mukaan. jumaknkauta miksi tämä on yli tunnin pitkä herrantuuttelis vuuttelis puuttelis cuuttelis suuttelis luuttelis zuuttelis ruuttelis xuuttelis buuttelis nuuttelis fuuttelis juuttelis quuttelis sentään! loppuu heti paikallla! tämä loppuu heti paikalla välittömästi! doowthavicthculike

I can see the influence this album had, but I would choose to listen to what they influenced instead.

This album is the musical equivalent of that scene in Idiocracy with the guy who “really likes sex”.

Lame as shit. Sounds dated for a 90's hip hop album.

I am not the target audience for this, I didn't like the objectification of women, and honestly don't really rate the music, except Danger Zone which was actually okay. This just made me uncomfortable and I wonder - WHY would you make a concept album about a VR sex experience?! Rating: 2

Well. Not my fave but I will give them kudos for committing so hard to the underwater concept in that one song😂

Ikke helt i min gate. Litt små morsom og gøyal til tider, men virker også svært utdatert.

A fun album but not the best of it’s era

A bunch of white sounding people rapping about sex, like what did I expect? Decent sampling, however, it was just boring.

All I can say is that it was better than Hendrix. Rated “not terrible”.

not my thing.

Not my thing, really

Not one of the stronger 80s rap albums on here

eu nunca imaginei que ouviria um disco conceitual de rap scifi. Ainda que soe datado, gosto de alguns beats, e dá pra sacar que eles tão gastando onda nas rimas, mas não consigo gostar delas de forma geral

Yeah album matches the name… the fact they pulled out the HUMP part of HUMPtydumpty just made me cringe. So did that ‘underwater’ one where the singer rapped in some silly fake lisp voice Most of its just average rap but with abhorrently bad moments 2/5

Humpty goes hard but the rest is a dumpty

Couldn’t dig it.

Bumps n humps

LMAO. Ridiculous album name / conept. These dudes suuuuuuck.

Digital Underground can be downright charming and funny on tracks like "Humpty Dance" and "Underwater Rimes", but the misguided attempt at a concept album about Sex Packets" leads them to some uncomfortably horny lyricism. The beat, jazzy. production and rap flow are generally pretty good, but it's the sexual content of the lyrics that typically hold me back ("Gutfest '89" and "Freaks of the Industry" come to mind). There are also tracks like "The Way We Swing" and "Rhymin' on the Funk" that just seem uninspired. "Doowutchyalike" would be a highlight, if not for the 7-minute runtime. This is a problem for the whole album as, of the 14 tracks, almost half of them are 6+ minutes long, causing the album to drag. I'm sure Digital Underground is capable of making an album better than this one.

1.6 I lasted 4 songs. Might be one of the worst bits of hip hop I've heard. I thought the first track was a classic hip hop skit until it hit the 3 minute mark. The next 4 minutes were brutal. Tracks 2&3 weren't much better. Offensive to my ears and to humanity in general.

Pues no los conocía y he tenido que mirar quienes eran. Me ha gustado la canción que da título al album y otra del final que se llama "Packet man" que además se salen un poco del estándar rap a mi entender, aunque la más famosa es la primera y me han parecido interesantes las intros con sonidos y samples. No me ha parecido algo imprescindible.

Hasn’t aged as well as other rap albums of the era. A little too long a well 2.5/5

Did this album predict the coming internet porn crisis?

Not my bag, good production tho

Typical hip hop. Not for me.

So, so, so, so, so long and quite dated. A few great hooks.

Thank goodness music evolves

Hip hop and funk you say? And it’s a concept album about a futuristic drug? You must have the wrong listener. Hope it’s someone else’s jam though.

#552. This isn't terrible by any means, but this kind of thing is past it's prime and sometimes hard to get into if you didn't listen to this kind of thing at the time. 2/5: meh

2/5

New album for me - ok sound and vibe 2/5 #musicsky #albumsky

Hard to believe 2pac was in this group. First four songs are decent although heavily sample driven. Changes by Band of Gypsies sounds good as a hip hop beat, but it should not have been nine minutes long. Lyrics aren't great, the flow is decent for the era, but nowhere near the level of Tribe, De La, or Public Enemy. Second half of the album runs out if gas and is not good

Three US Hip Hop albums in a row and severe diminishing marginal returns. The luck of the draw means I can listen to this in the context of Public Enemy and Nas and comparatively this is thin fare indeed.

Horny 90- Tals rap, men med ganska mycket swagger och helt roliga moment

2.5

Ok. I made it halfway through before I couldn't take it anymore. Better than many, I thought.

Ow - typische 90er HipHpo. Tönt ächli wie Fresh Prince. Ehner langwielig.

Even for its own time, the album was a novelty.

Meh

Mostly cringe! I can't quite work out if it's satire or not.

Wanted to write that this aged like hip hop from 1990 - as in: fine milk - but this is also the year of "People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm", so its age isn't an excuse for this being so boring. It's haha funny at times, then cringe, "Underwater Rimes" was alright, but I didn't need this. No one did, today.

I imagine that if in the 90's a bunch of guys with limited musical experience were tasked with creating a Bart Simpson hip hop album within four days, the result would sound an awful lot like this. Impressively immature.

It's catchy but not something I'd listen to again

Some of it is all right, for me not bad compared with other hip hop of the time. But my gosh, it's repetitive.

This definitely sounds like a joke, but it's not clear on who. At first it sounds like the joke is on Digital Underground, and this is one of those awkward early incarnations of rap, with ham-fisted rhymes and corny production that hasn't aged well at all. Then I realised that no, this was clearly never intended to be taken seriously (as the album title should've made obvious); instead maybe the joke's on other rappers, or preconceived notions of rap... or... something. Then, when yet another track stretched beyond 6 minutes of the same basic beat, it definitely felt like the joke was on me, the listener. It wasn't until the track Packet Man that I finally 'got' what these guys were going for, and I enjoyed my second listen through much more. Still a bit throwaway though. 2.5

Nawp

Well this has been playing for what feels like an hour, but am only on track three. Like majority of hip hop albums in the 1001 albums, the charms of this genre have largely passed me by. The tracks play in the background but they are making no impression, good or bad, whatsoever

⭐⭐ 4/10 You know in Eurodance, the breaks where some random 90s rapper gets loose. This album is just those breaks

2.5

Other than the obvious "Humpty" hit and "Doowutchyalike", this is just tongue in cheek mid level rap. Nothing to write home about. I do like some of the incorporations of jazz through out, but it's not enough to recomend this or even really want to revisit the album. Not even sure why this is essential. There are several rap album I don't like but say, yeah, that's important... This, nah. (5.4) ★★½

Meh nothing special imo 5/10

My takeaway from Sex Packets is packets, sex packets and other obsessions typical of a rap, hip-hop record. I've often said here, "I don't like rap", but the more I listen to the genre on this list, the more I respect craft, more tolerant and realized there is some great rap/hip-hop albums out there...this is not one of them. Sex Packets is pretty much everything I dislike about the genre. It has the usual misogyny, stupid skits and dumb obsession with sex, but it's mainly lightweight, non-threatening, goofy and dated. Gee, maybe the Fresh Prince isn't so bad after all? It seemed to go on and on and on and it couldn't end soon enough.

I can understand why this was instrumental to the Hip Hop scene.

01) The Humpty Dance - 6,0 02) The Way We Swing - 5,5 03) Rhymin' on the Funk - 5,5 04) The New Jazz (One) - / 05) Underwater Rimes (Remix) - 5,5 06) Gutfest '89 (Edit) - 6,0 07) The Danger Zone - 5,5 08) Freaks of the Industry - 5,5 09) Doowutchyalike - 5,5 10) Packet Prelude - / 11) Sex Packets - 5,5 12) Street Scene - / 13) Packet Man - 5,5 14) Packet Reprise - 5,0 TOTAL: 5,55 (56/100) Current ranking: 377/439

2.3 - I dunno about the whole listening to sex noises tbh. I Just didn't get it

Everything was 4 minutes too long

Favorite Track: Humpty Dance

Mc Blowfish is the perfect metaphor for this album: cringe and bloated. Gets an extra star for production

Were we really still doing this in 1990? I mean the Sugarhill Gang came along in 1980 and a decade later we're doing the same kind of rap/hip-hop? If this album had come out in 1980, it'd probably be trail blazing. But it's somewhat embarrassing that this was still going on in hip hop. I mean, white people like me might resonate with it (or Young MC who, yeah, only hit the scene in 1989) but thank god Ice T, Ice Cube, NWA, LL Cool J and the gangsta rap scene came along. At least they had substance. And thank god for Chuck D and other political rappers. This album is fun and all but the rapping is juvenile and the lyrics are bubblegum. I'm being a little harsh because they really do have some fun beats. Great beats. But I've always rolled my eyes at the Humpty Dance (lyrics and vocal rhythm) and now I do the same at their other single Doowutchyalike (which I didn't recognize). Songs like The Way We Swing and Rhymin on the Funk weren't much better lyrically. Don't get me started on Underwater Rimes. And I don't see the concept on this concept album - no link from one song to another. Oh and most songs are 2 minutes too long (Doowutchyalike 5 minutes too long). So I'm not going higher than a 3. But given all my eye rolls, sorry, I can't even go with a 3.

Could have done without a lot of those lyrics

Wasn't Great.

The humpty dance was a great listen of course but the album itself didn’t do anything for me. Old school hip hop can feel a little like nursery rhymes. Yay for the contribution to what came next but I won’t go back to it.

I not likey I think it bad and smell like poopie

I’m not sure who consulted on the rap additions to this list but it’s been a very strange collection to this point. This album wouldn’t come close to cracking a decent 100 rap albums to listen to before you die.

1.9 What the hell are these guys talking about!? Sex Packets, Gutfest, humpty dance?

Muy buen rap de la costa oeste con marcado sonido funky e Influencias obvias de Afrika Bambaatta Funcadelic y Prince Bizarro disco conceptual aunque con lírica y sonidos aún actuales es el antecedente directo para o 2 Pac o aDr Dre y junto con Nas son de los más salvable de la costa oeste

So so

I mean it had its moments. But, for all intense and porpoises it was mediocre. Juvenille wordplay, hoorendous production, very uninspired faux jazz undertones. At some point I just realized that De La Soul and Tribe Called quest literally walked so Digital Underground could shit it's pants and fall on the floor foaming at the mouth.

Dated, misogynistic, silly, and way too long...but Humpty Dance was an anthem of my coming of age and I can't help but love it.

Pretty cringy with some very jay puffiny lyrics... quite the piece of "art".

Is this like a sub-genre called horny rap or something? The whole thing is very cringe. My biggest question is how did Tupac end up on one of these tracks?

These past 30ish days I've had 2 Tribe Called Quest albums, Lauryn Hill, and 36 Chambers, so this album had some real competition, but just couldn't quite cut it. The beats are ok at best, but it just isnt that fun. However the real problem is the "bars". A lot of cringe lyrics, bad flow and I don't like his voice. Mid 2.

una pesadilla sonora, repetitiva

With all the gangster rap on this list this is a fresh breath of air. Nice beats and sampling. the more comic ones feel more interesting than the serious to me. but what takes of a star is the length of the tracks, most overstay their welcome. Lyrical content is nothing to speak of, generic hip hop shit so i don't really listen to it. mostly grade it on the flow of the rhyme more than the content. Would have been 3 if the tracks were shorter

Rapp en samt af betri gerðinni. Fyrir utan hvað viðfangsefnið er asnalegt, sérstaklega þegar þeir fóru að tala um pillur sem líktu eftir ýmsum konum og ég fékk eiginlega bara nóg. Fram að því hafði kjánahrollurinn bara náð að gaurnum sem söng með misheppnaðri Laddarödd

One hit and some weird stuff

Very dated.

Nope.

Good god. Frat boy level puerile. A very poor man’s 2Live Crew

There’s enough good ideas here to produce a 4 track EP, but that’s about it. Most of these songs are at least twice as long as they should be and they get boring pretty quickly.

Massively dated, good beats but let down by weird adolescent lyrics

I guess a humorous concept hip hop album was something of a novelty in 1990. I can see how this could have been pretty influential some other 90s artists, particularly Dr Octagon. It's not without its charm, but man, it really didn't age well. The non-stop obsession with sex is fairly cringeworthy. It has some genuinely good moments in the music, but it suffers from many songs and the album itself really outstaying its welome. Sorry but five songs are longer than 6 minutes and each of them desperately needed to be edited down. Amazingly, the cassette version is even worse, with extra songs and extended versions. The music just isn't good or interesting enough to warrant these lengths. A trimmed down version could have gotten 3 stars, but as it is, it was a slog to get through.

This did not pass the test of time. The Humpy Dance gets a star, though.

It was silly in the same vein as Tribe Called Quest or De La Soul, but it wasn't as clever. There weren't any standout grooves either.

Gahhh. My best friend in middle school loved the hungry dance. It was her favorite song. I’ve always hated it. My feeling have not changed.

Horny dudes fantasy x old school Hiphop. For 65 minutes.

Humpty dance that volume down

In the first 3 seconds, "Do me baby" . Got immediately tired of it, and the rest of the lyrics followed raunchy suit. It's cute and nothing new, hip-hip-hopping, rhyming and bopping, I wish someone be stopping you.... When you have a stereotype you adhere to, you're just fearful to stand out and be yourself. History does not remember the forgettable.

I don't know why but this deserves an extra star compared to the other hip hop garbage... maybe I have changed...

Can't get through, just not my style

Oof so cheesy and lame. The lyrics are so so bad so the enjoyment entirely comes from the beats which seem pretty standard for other hip hop albums I’ve heard from this period. A great example of all the shit hip hop in this era! It’s important to highlight the shit so the actual great albums can be compared to something Rating: 1.8

Early 90's new jack swing type beats with a pretty smooth rap flow above them. It sounds nice (the diction is great overall), but I'm not really impressed enough for it to be on the list. I think the big draw here is that this is the act that it kickstarted Tupac's rap career, but his debut came in the following release. It was listenable and fun but I think didn't really wow me enough to warrant a higher rating.

Some good sampling on here, a Parliament track is always welcome, but that’s about it. This era of rap is fine just a bit too goofy sounding which is exemplified by the Humpty Dance being the big song on here. Shout out to these guys for giving Pac a start though (2.5/5)

I don’t even really like their big hit. Plus it being over an hour long seems egregious. Also admit this is just not my thing. 2/5

Classic 90's hip hop. Not as good as an NWA or Snoop or Dre but still very good.

Granted, this album went on right after The White Album by the Beatles, but I was truly unimpressed. Humpty Dance obviously stands out, although most of the rest are almost comical. One star would be too harsh, but this is certainly a weak two.

Didn’t care for this, even Humpty plays longer than I remember. The one song was huge back in the day at the clubs, so gets >1 cred, but not by much.

I never thought I’d be saying this, but dayum…the sex lasted way too long. And still no climax. While I can somewhat appreciate the whimsical approach here, the overall listen was just simply dated, boring and utterly forgettable. The two charting songs are the only thing keeping this out of 1* rating.

I’d have been embarrassed to be found listening to this.

Digital Underground sure likes to rap about….Digital Underground. How the eff is Underwater Rimes a song? Seems like this wanted to be all sexy but would be like dropping your pants in front of a girl and her just laughing.

I’m going to steal a comment from another review that perfectly sums up this album… The Humpty Dance is over six minutes long. This. Album. Is. Too. Long. Should be 30 minutes shorter. And even then it would be cringe and dated. I do enjoy the first few minutes of The Humoty Dance, tho. 1.75/2

While I'm pleased he once got busy in a burger king bathroom this album is not the one for me. I just think me and the sex packets have different priorities for what we want in music. I would say the first song overstays it's welcome at over 6 minutes but by that point I had mentally checked out. Other questions: why did the MC look like a lobster? Why do they rhyme attention and prevention so much? Do they think bike horns are erotic? Is a sex packet a condom? Wait Tupac was in this band????

A bit dated, some nice tunes though.

Humpty Dance is a classic song while the rest of the tracks were very hit or mostly misses. Also TIL that 2pac got his start in this group.

Way too long! Second half definitely was better than the first half which was Run DMC levels of cap. Early hip hop is so brutal sometimes.

Not a great 💿. There’s a reason you only know 1 track from DU.

nostalgia but hmm a bit hit or miss

This kind of hip hop just hasn't aged well.

Well, Sex Packets. What can we say? I mean, this must have brought enthusiasm in its day from the hip hop community? Young dudes of its era? We all remember the Humpty Dance, but it goes so much further than that. Lots of content that wouldn't be exciting for many today, but must have been important at the time. It is a fact that you can hear some echoes of this work in more recent hip hop bands like maybe a Jurassic 5 or something. Otherwise, meh. Why?

"The Humpty Dance" is great as a novelty song. The gimmick that Shock G carries through the whole of "Sex Packets," however, gets old fast. But thank you, Digital Underground, for launching the career of Tupac.

So early 90s. Got bored.

Far too long, and though some of it is amusing, lots is just cheesy. Could easily have dropped everything from "Packet Prelude" onwards

Way too long. It’s kind of fun, and I like the sense of humor combined with the cheesy 90s hip-hop style, but not a fan of the theme (such as it is). No desire to listen to this again.

Humpty Dance and a whole lotta future sex love drugs, if thats your kink.

1.5/5

A couple songs on here were fun boom bap but overall the album felt one dimensional. Too many of the songs were unnecessarily long.

A 90s album that's stuck in the 90s. First listen I was like: Yuck. Second listen it started to grow on me but it still has lots of yuck. So 1.5 makes it a 2?

Hmmmm, exceedingly cringe content, basic-at-best flows, unexciting production. This was a bit of a chore to get through and I'm not giving it a second listen. It was maybe less horrible than the Dr Dre and Kanye albums I scored as a 2, so I guess this one is like a 2.4 - it ain't getting rounded up to a three at any rate. Fave track - "Underwater Rimes" was the highlight. I liked the parts of "Doowutchyalike" that addressed the radio station / block party DJ too, I guess, if not so much the rest of the song.

Terrible name for an album. Hip hop and funk fusion that can get repetitive. It's definitely different from the other stuff out at the time (basically a West Coast version of the Native Tongues movement in New York), but is sometimes too out there. Highlights: "The Way We Swing" (a laid-back brag song), "Underwater Rimes - Remix" (there was a lot of pot smoking in the studio, right? MC Blowfish???), "Doowutchyalike" (I'm guessing this is the band's mission statement, cool funky horns...8 1/2 minutes is a lot, though) Notable: "The Humpty Dance" (the first song on the album is the big novelty hit), "Gutfest '89" (I'm assuming they are namechecking their influences at the beginning. Their flow reminds me of De La Soul. Apparently, it's a sex festival...), "Freaks of the Industry" (female orgasm sounds make up part of the background rhythm, explicit lyrics), "Sex Packets" (a 12+ minute suite with a mix of skits and raps)