Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride 2: The Pharcyde
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Artist: PharcydeEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2001-03-20
Music Label: Delicious Vinyl
Soundtracks:
- 4 Better or 4 Worse (Interlude)
- Oh Shit!
- It's Jigaboo Time (Skit)
- 4 Better or 4 Worse
- I'm That Type of Nigga
- If I Were President (Skit)
- Soul Flower [Remix]
- On the D.L.
- Officer
- Ya Mama
- Passin' Me By
- Otha Fish
- Quinton's on the Way (Skit)
- Pack the Pipe
- Return of the B-Boy
Free Music Notes for Bizarre Ride 2: The Pharcyde
Free Music Review: The most entertaining hip hop album EVER
Hit: 5 Stars
"Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde" is a prime example of hip hop at its best. I believe that it is one of, if not the, very greatest hip hop album ever recorded. I have listened to hundreds of albums, all of the ones that other people claim to be the best ever, yet nothing entertains me like "Bizarre Ride". I love everything about it. The MCs (Slim Kid Tre, Fatlip, Imani Wilcox, and Bootie Brown) are absolutely hilarious, and they seriously make me laugh everytime I put this in the player. J-Swift made his mark as one of the world's greatest producers, creating beautiful jazzy, funky, and ridiculous beats for them. The subject matter goes all over the place. At one minute they're telling a silly story, the next bashing the police, and the next telling mama jokes. They yell and chant every chorus. Their immature, harmonious voices, along with a great flow, will keep you listening for the end and you'll keep coming back for more "Bizarre Ride".
The first full song is called "Oh Sh*t", a hilarious mix of stories that made the four use the exclamation. Between being busted and finding your lady is a man, over a jazzy and bluesy beat, this song is great. "4 Better Or 4 Worse" also has a great soulful beat, awesome chorus and on-point lyrics. "I'm That Type Of N**ga" is just a happy, catchy song, with a sax loop, funny chorus, and more great rhymes. "Soul Flower" is maybe my favorite beat here, it makes my head bob and puts me on the brink of dancing every time, and the beat to "On the DL" is just as great, a bass and drum heavy track with great vibes. The lyrics and hooks to both do not slack, and both are classics. "Officer" is an anti-police anthem, but it's done in the signature Pharcyde style, half-kidding the entire song. It almost sounds like a parody of a Public Enemy song, with the spinning, loopy beat and chorus. "Ya Mama" is maybe the funniest song I've ever heard. The beat is great, and I know you think you've heard mama jokes before, but wait till you hear this. A peg leg with a kickstand? An afro with a chinstrap? Where do they get this stuff? This is perfectly followed by "Passin' Me By", indisputibly one of the greatest hip hop songs of all time. The beat is among the best ever, and the lyrics tell the stories of the girls that got away. It's as legendary a hip hop song as any. "Otha Fish", one of my favorites, has a toned down, happy beat with flutes, providing hope to any lovesick teen. "Pack the Pipe", a silly story which involves giving weed to a 4-year old, and "Return of the B-Boy", an excellent groove, finish the album amazingly in a way only the Pharcyde could. Throughout the album, hilarious skits like "Quinton's on the Way", "It's Jigaboo Time", and "Pack the Pipe" only enhance the tracks.
"Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde" is a must-have for anyone who likes hip hop. It has the funniest lyrics and immaculate production. Everything went right on "Bizarre Ride", and I speak of it among the best ever, with other greats from the early 90s period like Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Souls of Mischief, and A Tribe Called Quest. You don't know what you're missing without this in your collection.
Bizarre Ride 2: The Pharcyde Poster
One of Pitchfork's ''Top 100 Favorite Records Of The 90's'' is now available again on deluxe red & blue double vinyl! ''Bizarre Ride II'' is the debut album from The Pharcyde. Released in late 1992 by Delicious Vinyl, the album was hailed by critics and alternative rap fans and appeared in ''best albums'' lists in several publications. Produced entirely by J-Swift with easily some of the tightest and most inventive beats of the era, ''Bizarre Ride'' features only one guest appearance, provided by little known Los Angeles rapper Buckwheat (who would become known as Bucwheed from The Wascals). Released during the dominant Gangsta Rap era of the West Coast, the music was described as ''refreshing'' due to its playful, light-hearted humor and lush, jazzy production. Along with albums like ''To Whom it May Concern'' by Freestyle Fellowship, and ''I Wish My Brother George Was Here'' by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, ''Bizarre Ride'' helped establish a new alternative scene on the West Coast followed by artists such as Hieroglyphics, The Coup and Jurassic 5. The album featured four singles, all of which were accompanied by music videos. The group's debut single, ''Ya Mama,'' originally released in 1991, was the song that landed the group their record deal, but it failed to reach any Billboard singles chart. Their first major exposure came with the release of the album's second single, ''Passing Me By.'' The song became the group's biggest crossover hit and is now considered a classic. The album's third single, ''4 Better or 4 Worse,'' was released in mid-1993 and featured the stoner song ''Pack the Pipe and the throwback track ''Return of the B-Boy'' as its b-side. The final single, the SlimKid solo track ''Otha Fish,'' was released in late 1993.Like De La Soul's Three Feet High & Rising, the Pharcyde's 1992 debut came at a time when hip-hop was headed in one direction, but the group was going somewhere else entirely. A crew of spunky b-boys armed with a self-deprecating sense of humor, the Pharcyde made an album that was fresh and profoundly honest. "Ya Mama" is a clever array of mother jokes set to cartoonish beats; "On the DL" has each MC unguardedly making self-denigrating confessions (like Fat Lip admitting to masturbating--previously a hip-hop no-no); and "Passin' Me By" is an ode to hopeless crushes on unattainable women. The group's playfulness was also infused with smarts, too, most visibly on "Officer." Recorded around the time of the Rodney King verdict, the song was an indictment of racial profiling--shrouded, of course, in a comic tale that parodied Public Enemy's "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos." With animated beats from J-Swift (the West Coast version of Prince Paul) and four distinct rhyming styles, particularly Slim Kid Tre's melodiousness and Fat Lip's nerdiness, this album captures an innocence rarely seen in the music's posturing ways. It's something that this album captures forever. --Joseph Patel
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