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This huge, cartoonish Californian crew, helmed by concept-man Shock-G, seized on the ultra-bassy funk woob-woob of Parliament-Funkadelic as the platform for its ensemble tomfoolery. At its best, it's inspired, daffy give-and-take that you can shake your rump to, especially on the hits "Doowutchalike" and "The Humpty Dance" and the ridiculous aquatic hip-hop fantasia "Underwater Rimes." At times, though, an uncomfortable current of leering misogyny surfaces. The disc ends with a suite of tracks about an imaginary safe-sex drug, the "sex packets" of the title. The concept gets stretched pretty thin, but "Packet Man," a cunning dialogue between Shock G (as a dealer) and his Groucho-nosed alter ego Humpty Hump (as his customer), is outright adorable.
TRACK LISTINGS
1. The Humpty Dance (LP Version)
2. The Way We Swing (LP Version)
3. Rhymin' On The Funk (LP Version)
4. The New Jazz (One) (LP Version)
5. Underwater Rimes (Remix) (LP Version)
6. Gutfest '89 (Edit) (LP Version)
7. The Danger Zone (LP Version)
8. Freaks Of The Industry (LP Version)
9. Doowutchyalike (LP Version)
10. Packet Prelude (LP Version)
11. Sex Packets (LP Version)
12. Street Scene (LP Version)
13. Packet Man (LP Version)
14. Packet Reprise (LP Version)
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