The tracks are smooth, whether they are shiny and pimped-out like “Real Big” or disco-ey like “Pussy Power”, and some of the rapping is improbably solid. Sure, it also functions as a music album. There are a couple of running gags here that will make you fall down laughing, because hearing robotic answering-machine voices swear is ALWAYS funny (“Damn Mannie what did you do to this bitch” OMG), and because the idea of Lil Wayne trying to sneak dirty stuff onto Mannie’s album is a hoot. The skits are funny (Petey Pablo popping up to narrate “Great Moments in Ghetto History”), the songs are funny (“Not Tonight” is a filthy-ass soul song by “Mannie Pendergroff” featuring lines like “I just wanna fuck you baby”), the ambience of the whole thing is funny. Want a slow jam love song to big cars, all done to an Al B. Want a gangsta tune about sleeping with a basketball player’s girlfriend? Cue it up. Want a cute dance song where he does the wop and the prep with a cute girl? Punch it in. Mannie Fresh is untethered here, free of logic and care, just doing any damn thing that leaps to his mind. This album fills me with great joy because it is free. I guess he figured it was time to do a solo record, and I guess he figured he would just let his freak flag fly. Although his duo, Big Tymers, has not yet broken out on its own, Mannie has been stepping out on his own a lot more these days, his round jovial figure gracing videos even when he doesn’t say a word on the track. Cash Money’s empire was built, at least partially, on his big old back, with his big glitzy grimy beats on a whole bunch of songs that you already know if you know this stuff. He is a producer and rapper, but has always been more famous as the former. The word “interesting” does not always mean something good, but here it does. Mannie Fresh has a very interesting mind.
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