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Concocted and started in 2006, Dood Computer and Stir Crazy’s bringing you this, a lyrical antidote for meaningless shit, it’s for you musical junkies to get you your fix. The album in which that I am referring is “Penny Dreadfuls” an excerpt from the craziness forming and shaping the lives of the two most involved in it’s creation; Stir Crazy and Dood Computer. It’s a sound in the land of the ‘undergound’ that is somewhat newer to the genre and it’s in a sense something its own. It’s got the swagger of a college kid, smooth lines like a bald head, and melodic beats to keep you tapping your feet. It’s an album made by two real motherfuckers and it’s only your fault if you don’t believe it brother!

With the beats boisterously, banging all the way out from Motor City, Detroit, and the lyrical dynamics slam dancing off of the walls The Rotten Apple, Albany, New York, this album is not one that should be looked over. It’s one that should be picked up and at least given one good listen. It starts simple enough, like you popped in a tape to learn how to play an instrument of sorts; in a way you are because if you soak up the knowledge dropped by an artist it can further your own inhibitions. Back on track it’s a simple start to a simple hip-hop album for this man to get his name out there. He states on ‘Watchu Doin’: “I’m rapping for gas money and my man Stir Crazy is banging the drums for me. Well really it’s all I know I don’t feel quite at home unless I’m rocking the show.”

The album then continues to roll on through what seems to be three or four different tracks in the first two, but it’s only because Stir Crazy’s beat capabilities supersede a lot around them and there’s too many to contain for just one song on one track. In a way it’s sort of like you’re getting a double album with all the extra beats added onto the end of each track. This project then spans over a variety of different subjects one would run into with the trials and tribulations in everyday life for the twenty-something year old MC letting his emotions leak through his pen to the page. There’s a sense of drinking heavily, as anyone with the swagger of a college kid would need, a nonstop party atmosphere, and when the beats hit the sound the words flow out of the mouth.

Like every other album ever made though some of the elements thrown into the mix on this are about women, the music scene today and how it needs to go back to its roots, and a case of full blown aids! In regards to the rapping of women there are three tracks in particular ‘Something Better’, ‘Rachel Profiling’, and ‘Mitchell Loves Jessica’. Each of these tracks are about the same subject, females, but two different perspectives; ‘Something Better’ is about being sick and tired of these games they play and cutting straight to the point. “I want to make mistakes and excuses, so I got something to write when I make some music.” ‘Rachel Profiling’ is like DC’s version of Madrox’s ‘Sour Patch Bitches’; and what I mean is, is that there’s always that one chick or group that when you see em’ you’re like “Not her again!”

Then he switches the style up and gets to the current state of hip-hop and why he feels it’s where it’s at and how he would want to take it back to the days of rapping to rap and here the crowd applaud and clap. From the get-go with the intro it’s blatantly stated how Dood feels, but with the tracks like ‘Tape Rock’, ‘Push it Through’, and ‘Make a Wish’. On ‘Make a Wish’ I feel he’s addressing more than half of the artists in the underground; the biters, the haters, and the un-talented. Letting them know how a lyricist can lay it down and take you on a journey with his words, swan diving onto his sword-like pen.

In closing the album we’re hit with the banger of track ‘Tape Rock Remix’ where Dood alongside his boys Dezmatic, Timmy Wiggins, and Benn Grim. It’s a track about recording back tracks like back in the day, with love for the music on a four track with one common drive, love for the game of hip-hop. Check out “Penny Dreadfuls” by Dood Computer and Stir Crazy when you find you’ve got the time and open your mind’s eye.

Websites

MySpace.com/DoodComputer
MySpace.com/StirCrazyMusic

Release Date:

• 05/07/2009

Reviewer:

• Whipstick