Paullelujah!

producers: paul barman, mf doom, mikethemusicguy, phofo.

year of release: 2002
website: mcpaulbarman.com | cockmobster.com
 
It's the funny man with the rhymes. The man you like to take more serious than he does himself. It's that stimulating guy, that had a 12" out that was produced by PM Dawn. Hey folks, this guy now has an album out called "Paullelujah". Blasphemy in many ways, as this kid does not have street cred, no ill spacey rhymes and he talks about square stuff, cause he's a square. Bwawawahahahah. Ah shut up…
It's not like every Biz Markie has to be a GZA. Then again, it's also that Paul is no Biz, but until the next Biz album, Paul is as good as it gets. And there's a lot of good to get, because if nothing else, Paul knows who does dope beats. And he gets them, namely Prince Paul, MF Doom, MikeTheMusicGuy (a guy that hangs with Automator) and Phofo, to do good beats for him.

tracklisting
1. It's Here
2. Paullelujah
3. Cock Mobster
4. Old Paul
5. Bleeding Brain Grow
6. N.O.W.
7. Excuse You
8. Vulture Shark Sculpture Park

9. Anarchist Bookstore Part 1
10. Burping & Farting
11. Talking Time Travel
12. Anarchist Bookstore Part 2
13. A Somewhat New Medium
That's why this album got the trunk for your shmocks going and it blows the dust off your headphones. With some of the tracks being a little merry-go-around, like "Paullelujah", or the Prince Paul produced "Bleeding Brain Grow". Then there's the cuts that straight up rock like roll. Them being "Cock Mobster", the Phofo produced "Excuse You", further "Vulture Shark Sculpture Park", the MF Doom produced and dense "Anarchist Bookstore Part 1 & 2", as well as the full out jazz on "A Somewhat New Medium". And speaking of "A Somewhat New Medium": here Paul gets down to some story telling in a fable kind of way. Because here he speaks. And he gives you a tale with a moral. And on "Talking Time Travel", Paul sings over a guitar. And the track only lacks in southern twang for it to be more folk. And speaking of folks: they'll loathe this in a purty kind of way. What then makes you wonder if they even listen to the lyrics.
Because they are good. At times they are straight up funny, often satirical (like on the activists spoofing "N.O.W."), there's many occasions where there's a meaning you can ponder too (case in point "Bleeding Brain Grow", where Paul says: "there's no such thing as anonymo to the I.R.S.kimo / and things are getting worse / there was laughter after NAFTA / because it can't be reversed"). But well, then there's also the laugh to it "Cock Mobster", where Paul fantasises about all the Celeb adventures that come to mind. And "Cindy Crawford offered". And Paul says "I would jizz early, inside Liz Hurley" and Tyra, Heide, Helle and all line up to be next. Further there's the straight silly "Vultures Shark Sculpture Park", where Paul says: "It's getting cold out. Oh wow, a wedding. The groom wore a costume, a very goth towel, a terrycloth owl. He said 'I, Hairy Moth Owl, take you to bite awfully headed to ravish and mould in quickness and stealth till death or we part. And you?'" Ohhhmmkaaayy. But after all this fun, the phoneys get another blow on "Anarchist Bookstore Part 1 & 2", while this might get just a little under-acknowledged among a song like "Burping & Farting".
And maybe that's exactly the biggest ill, that there's "Burping And Farting" (that is also bad musically) that can distract the intending to dislike this album from the other songs. That's why such songs are only pouring gasoline over a fire. This kind of Paul gets disses and will get dissed.
But Paul got better technically and his flow is effortless, his deliver sounds better too and he gets his points across in a careless funny man fashion, that deserves its place in an art form that once said: " have you ever went over a friends house to eat and the food just ain't no good / I mean the macaroni's soggy, the peas are mushed, and the chicken tastes like wood" (and you better know where this quote is from). So Paul will not just get friends with this record, his haters will surely stick around. Because Paul is not one of these generic rappers that come a dime a docent without a true identity. Paul got character.
review: tadah
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