| Product Summary | | UPC: 00060768753525 | | Release Date: 6/28/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 63986948 | | Item#: M2DSLM | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2005 Sanctuary Records Group, Inc under exclusive license from Sanctuary Records Group Limited
(C) 2005 Sanctuary Records Group, Inc under exclusive license from Sanctuary Records Group Limited
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Bizarre (rap vocals); Eminem, King Gordy, Obie Trice, Raphael Saadiq, Big Boi, Kuniva, Devin the Dude, Sindee Syringe, Swifty , Stic.man (rap vocals). | | The shower cap-wearing freak from D12 won't change the world with his first proper solo album, but Hannicap Circus is solid, filthy, fun, and everything else that you'd want from a less nimble Kool Keith. Bizarre shares Keith's love of sleaze and weirdness, but Bizarre is more earthbound and ghetto enough that you'd never confuse the two. His trashy attitude makes him more Insane Clown Posse than any other Shadyville artist, but his street clout is real and ICP never had beats so good. Eminem himself is behind the album's party highlight, "Rockstar," an equally infectious and herky-jerky sequel to D12's "My Band." Cool production tricks sweeten Bizarre's cool rambling on "Let the Record Skip," and Devin the Dude's appearance on "Porno Bitches" should put the Stevie Wonder-feelin' track on that "feelin' freaky good" mixtape you're gonna make. With an artist like Bizarre, skits are half the fun. There are plenty of them, almost as many as there are Detroit references, and every Eminem/Shadyville fanboy appreciates these shout-outs from the yard. In that world, Bizarre's debut places above a solo album from the member of G-Unit you don't care about, and slightly below the best Green Lantern mixtapes. Much higher if you consider proudly fat, very funny, and freakishly offensive rappers lovable, which in this case, you should. ~ David Jeffries | | Bizarre is known as the Ol' Dirty Bastard of Eminem's D12 posse--an out-of-control, just-maybe-crazy guy whose visual hook is that he's always wearing a shower cap. After a series of guest spots on Eminem's records, Bizarre manages to define himself as a solo artist on HANNICAP CIRCUS. Although the Marshall Mathers-produced first single "Rockstar" sounds suspiciously close to Mathers's own "Just Lose It" and D12's "My Band," the rest of the album sounds more like the 2005 equivalent to Blowfly's cheerfully obscene R&B party records of the '70s. Bizarre's unique sensibilities are such that a track called "Porno Bitches" is the closest thing to a conventional love song, and "Gospel Weed Song" delivers exactly what the title promises. On HANNICAP CIRCUS, the goofiness of Bizarre's silly lyrics and between-song skits almost overshadows the fact that he and his co-producers give the laughs more substance through the stacks of solid beats and the inventive use of samples on tracks like "Let the Record Skip." |
Producer: Eminem; Erick Sermon; Chav Guevara; Raphael Saadiq; Hi-Tek |
Musical Guests | | Young Miles | | Sindee Syringe | | Eminem | | Devin The Dude | | Big Boi | | Swifty | | King Gordy | | Stick Man | | Raphael Saadiq | | Kuniva | | D-12 | | Obie Trice | | Stic. Man |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 06/28/2005 | | Original Release Date : 2005 | | Catalog ID : 87535 | | Label : Sanctuary (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00060768753525 |
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