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- Date Released: June 13, 2000
- Genre: Hip-Hop/R&B
- Style: Hip-Hop
- Label: Analog Brothers Records
Ice-T, Kool Keith & Co. kick out the jams for art's sake — and fun's.
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We Say...
What do you get when you mix Kool Keith’s lunacy, Ice-T’s gangsta, a Bay Area pimp and a slew of vintage keyboards? Featuring the eccentricities of Keith, Ice-T, Pimp Rex, Silver Surfer and Marc Live, the Analog Brothers rhyme about Space Age pimping but present it in a very old-fashioned way, using an analog-only studio packed with vintage equipment to record this album. The uncommonness of this release — one of Keith's best thus far — lies in the marquee value of the names involved and the uniqueness of the result: rarely do hip-hop artists record something for art's, or even fun's, sake, the motivations behind Pimp to Eat. "More Freaks" starts off hard with Ice-T addressing women like a real G should, while "Country Girl" is a little more humorous — the guys reminisce about a Southern love interest. Unless the quintet decides to don the futuristic pimp suits again, there will never be another album like it.
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They Say...
Five personalities spit game and talk mess in humorous and fantastic fashion on Pimp to Eat. Deeply synthed 808 and 909 kicks power these retro godfathers' boasts, stories, and pimp/pop-culture laden non sequiturs. Keith Korg aka Kool Keith steals the show; no one ever quite sounds as bugged out or charismatic. The others generally follow Keith's non-linear abstract route, the exception being Ice Oscillator aka Ice-T. Ice plays the thugged-out pimp a little too well, his persona noticeably aggressive and misogynistic. Everyone does their part, though, in executing this conceptually creative and brilliant album -- check out the Analog Brothers-under-attack epic "War" and the futuristic players ball "Perms, Baldheads, Afro's, and Dred's" for prime examples. If the Brothers take a while to sink in lyrically, the music is fortunately consistent and engaging, darkly funkdafied with seriously programmed stop/start grooves. Pimp to Eat comes together like a great Marvel Comics supervillian crossover -- make way for the retro pimps from the future.
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| 01. |  |
Analog Brothers Intro |
3:41 |  |
| 02. | |
Analog Technics |
4:52 | |
| 03. | |
More Freaks |
4:05 | |
| 04. | |
2005 |
4:29 | |
| 05. | |
So Bad |
4:03 | |
| 06. | |
Analog Anilalator vrs. Silver Surfer |
3:49 | |
| 07. | |
Perms Baldheads Afro's & Dreads |
4:09 | |
| 08. | |
Who Wanna Be Down |
4:43 | |
| 09. | |
Country Girl |
4:03 | |
| 10. | |
War |
4:05 | |
| 11. | |
Double Back |
3:48 | |
| 12. | |
We Sleep Days |
3:43 | |
| 13. | |
Bionic Oldsmobile |
4:27 | |
| 14. | |
Shut Down Show |
3:24 | |
| 15. | |
Once I Get It |
1:14 | |
| 16. | |
Analog Outro |
2:20 | |
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