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Classic Album Review: Redman | Doc’s Da Name 2000

The ruffneck rapper’s fourth LP is crude, lewd, rude — and thoroughly entertaining.

This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


On the cover he’s done up like some sort of cross between a video game character and the Kool-Aid Man, but on this fourth album, Reggie (Redman) Noble comes off as more of a cartoon character.

Unlike so much of today’s testosterone-packed rap, Redman leavens his ruffneck raps about blunts, beepers and beeyatches with 70 minutes of bouncy boombastic beats, wiseguy witticisms and demented skits. Crude, lewd, rude — and thoroughly entertaining. This doc is in the house.