To those in need of funkdafied musical medicine blessed by herb-enhanced verbals, your prayers have been answered. In 1992, Reggie Noble introduced the world to Redman, the brainsick genius responsible for the instant classics "Time 4 Sum Aksion," "How To Roll A Blunt" and "Tonight's Da Night" culled from his gold-selling textbook-case debut Whut? Thee Album. 1994 charted Redman's continued progress as hip-hop's most illified patient with "Rockafella" and "Can't Wait" from his gold-selling follow-up Dare Iz A Darkside. Now with his Def Squad degree in wordsmith science proudly decorating the walls of his Newark "Brick City," NJ laboratory, Redman-a.k.a. The Funk Docta Spot-returns with his third in his anthologies of tales from the darkside-Muddy Waters. "Muddy Waters," Redman explains, "pertains to the idea that everything is from the dirt which is the essence. My last album Dare... was about comin' out the dirt. Now, the result of that is album where it has surfaced. I think I lost people on my last album, it went over their heads. This album, I got some more of the kind of music I'd want to do in a show. Straight up buddha head songs." True to this simple but highly effective philosophy, the LP prescribes the full range of what listeners have come to prize and expect from Redman: High-octane performances, entertaining idiosyncrasies, lyrical excursions into the familiar and foreign and, of course, the best in bottom heavy production as provided by Def Squad kingpin Erick Sermon, longtime Reggie Noble-associated Rockwilder and Redman himself. "My music is made for everyone but has a particular connection to buddha heads," Redman states matter of factly. "Don't get the album thinking I'm a be talkin' about spectatuclar stuff. You know why? Because you got different groups out here covering the political angle, covering the glamour angle. But nobody's kickin' it for the buddha heads that just want a sit back and rock." Within the funk gumbo of Muddy Waters there lies a wealth of healthy examples; tracks whose energy most strongly recalls Whut?, yet builds on the excellence of recent standouts. like "Funkorama" and his smash platinum plus duet with Method Man "How High." Revisit the LP below...
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