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- Genre: Hip-Hop/R&B
- Style: Hip-Hop
- Label: Strange Famous / Revolver
Word-happy Canadian rapper offers a "We Didn't Start the Fire" for the hip-hop crowd.
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We Say...
Hip-hop’s big tent admits all manner of oddballs, but even in that realm Buck 65 stands out. On Situation, his ninth album, Buck 65 (Halifax, Nova Scotia’s goat-voiced Richard Terfry), casts himself as a kind of impressionistic pop historian: “1957” quotes Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” (which was published in 1956) and features lines like, “Orpheus descending, walking in the crooked waters/ Hello Sid Vicious, goodbye Brooklyn Dodgers.” That sets the tone for the rest of the set, which riffs on that year, painting a rich and jumbled tapestry over production that buffs up mid-'80s rap beats (an appropriate choice, given how large the nostalgia market had become by then). “The Beatific” hinges on the line, “Che Guevara, rock star,” while the slide guitar-fueled “The Rebel” is a true-crime narrative that replaces hip-hop’s drive-bys and Tupac references with fistfights and Eddie Cochran.
Best of all is the three-song arc about the bondage-porn market: “Lipstick,” conga-fueled and funky, is about Bettie Page (a “girl with a perfect figure and a cult following”); the low-key, semi-electro “Shutter Buggin’,” about a photographer (“Don’t understand your needs, and frankly I don’t care/ He wants to be a cowboy, she wants to be an actress/ I just want to stash the money under my mattress”); and “Spread ’Em” focuses on the cops busting the whole thing. It’s not quite a history lesson, but he puts you there anyway.
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| 01. |  |
Intro |
1:42 |
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| 02. | |
1957 |
3:57 |
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| 03. | |
Dang |
2:40 |
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| 04. | |
Lipstick |
3:10 |
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| 05. | |
Shutter Buggin' |
3:29 |
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| 06. | |
Spread' Em |
2:52 |
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| 07. | |
Ho-Boys |
3:48 |
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| 08. | |
Way Back When |
3:34 |
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| 09. | |
Cop Shades |
4:09 |
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| 10. | |
The Beatific |
3:18 |
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| 11. | |
Mr Nobody |
3:04 |
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| 12. | |
The Rebel |
3:17 |
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| 13. | |
Benz |
2:34 |
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| 14. | |
Heatwave |
3:01 |
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| 15. | |
The Outskirts |
3:14 |
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| 16. | |
White Bread |
4:00 |
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16 Total Tracks, 51:49 Total Length
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