![]() ![]() ![]() Some complained that it sounded like a like New York record. Because it did not feel like a demented carnival ride, many Redman fans noted that the album didn’t feel like a Redman album. He and Erick Sermon recruited a few new producers (among them, Wyclef’s cousin Jerry Wonda), some new rappers (Method Man, Napalm), and expanded their sample palate to look (a little) beyond funk. Despite that, the album made Redman a star, selling over 500,000 in two months and eventually moving two million copies.įor his third outing, the Funk Doc managed to clear his head of the demons that haunted the previous project. In interviews, he would reveal that the album was made during a very dark time in his life a time he doesn’t wish to revisit, hence him not performing any of the album’s tracks at shows. The follow-up, Dare Iz a Darkside, doubled down on the funk while venturing further into Redman’s eerie psychedelic world. ![]() They sound like Redman’s early oeuvre.Īfter linking up with EPMD’s Erick Sermon six years earlier, Reggie Noble embarked on a career that would spawn an incredible debut, Whut? The Album, seeped in funk samples and muddled drums, and bolstered by Red’s crazy energetic personality and unfuckwitable rhymes. But what about Northern New Jersey? Specifically, places like Newark, Elizabeth, Paterson, and Jersey City, cities deep in the shadow of the Big Apple-what of them? Those parts of the Garden State sound muddy and dirty. What does New Jersey sound like? Travel down the Turnpike and people will tell you Jersey sounds like Bruce Springsteen. ![]()
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