This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
WHERE YOU’LL FIND HIM: On the mic.
FILE UNDER: Rhyme and treason.
LOWDOWN: If you see a bunch of burly guys wearing grey suits and shades talking into their cuffs at the next Pipi Skid show, I suggest you stay out of their way. They’ll likely be U.S. Secret Service agents come to to have a word or three with the rapper about his album Funny Farm, on which the rapper talks about how he’s going to “mow down Bush and his security team.” And that’s just on the first track. The rest of this 14-cut full-length is just as confrontational, though not necessarily as destructive. With croaky pipes and a slackerish delivery vaguely akin to Loser-era Beck, Skid makes his mark by spinning bizarre, darkly confessional rhymes about everything from jobs to jealousy to germophobia over oddly sinister cuts from DJ Hunnicutt. Like all the Peanuts & Corn artists, Pipi creates some truly arresting music. Let’s just hope it doesn’t get him arrested.
