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Bizarre, Blue Cheese and Coney Island

DR. F | USA | 12/31/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

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Bizarre is well.........bizarre! Regardless of how weird he is, the album is still cold! The beats are tight, and as always, Bizarre uses his sick form of self deprecating humor to make you laugh while, diggin' on some slick tracks. Bizarre is one of the most underrated rappers out there. I don't beleive that even 20 percent of his lyrics are true.....except for his beleif in better life through 'chemistry'! But that's the whole point, whatever you do, don't take this fool seriously, you'll get pissed off! If you realize he's just clownin' and that he's pretty much a comedian who can rhyme, you'll enjoy his work!"

It's amazing what you'll listen to when you're bored

Anthony Rupert | Milwaukee, WI | 05/16/2008

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Bizarre is best known as the self-proclaimed "showercap-wearing member of D12". By that alone, it should be a signal to people that he's more of a silly than a serious rapper, and the only time I remember seeing him in recent years is as a contestant on Celebrity Fit Club (and he's one of the only people that made Harvey Walden laugh, although Harvey still looked mean when he did it). Anyway, I had no desire to listen to his first album Hannicap Circus, but for some reason I listened to Blue Cheese `N' Coney Island.



It would be hard to really classify this as a D12-related album, however. Not only was it released on an independent label, but with the exception of Kuniva on the necessary tribute-to-your-hometown "Welcome to the D" (one of the only good songs on here), there are no D12 members to be found on here; heck, Eminem doesn't even have a production credit. Instead, there are many unknown rappers -- TOO many, in fact, and they really don't bring anything to the table. It's hard to pinpoint the best example of this, but "Cakin" comes readily to mind.



But Bizarre himself is also to blame. I know his material has always been risqué, but here he dabbles into bestiality ("Sex Tape"; "Wicked"); and I don't know why he would use "Animal" to try to make light of the Virginia Tech massacre. But then there are songs that don't go anywhere, like "Get This Money" and "Fat Boy". And I'm not sure if he was being serious when he was SINGING the chorus to "Got This Addiction"; nevertheless, when I heard that song, I was like, "WTF is this?"



"She's Homeless" is a misguided tale about an ex-girlfirend, and "Sex Tape" (whose chorus seems to be borrowed from Ying Yang Twins' "Wait") has name-dropping just for the sake of name-dropping. Another concern is "Da Fat Boy Dance", which is confusing because only the chorus is about dancing while the rest of the song isn't really about anything. Speaking of that, that's one of the last songs on the album, and the final four tracks feature pointless preludes that have Bizarre and his buddies telling homophobic jokes in the you-know-you're-ghetto style (hey, Bizarre, 1999 called).



The only songs really worth listening to on here are "Knock `Em Out" (although I don't know what Tech N9ne is even doing on a Bizarre album) and the deep "So Hard", as well as the aforementioned "Welcome to the D". As far as the rest, well, I'd take a real Coney dog over this album any day.



Anthony Rupert"