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Track Listing 1. Buttermilk Biscuits (Keep on Square Dancin') 2. Posse on Broadway 3. Gold 4. Swass 5. Rippn' - (with Kid Sensation) 6. Ttack on the Stars 7. Mall Dropper 8. Hip Hop Soldier 9. Iron Man - (with Metal Church) 10. Bremelo 11. Square Dance Rap 12. Romantic Interlude 13. F the BS
Album Notes Personnel includes: Sir Mix-A-Lot; Kid Sensation (vocals); Metal Church, Kid Sensation. Includes liner notes by Sir Mix-A-Lot. Additional personnel: Kid Sensation (vocals); Metal Church (various instruments). The first major MC to come out of the Pacific Northwest (straight outta Tacoma, Washington, to be precise), Sir Mix-a-Lot appeared on the national scene with 1987's SWASS, boasting his own language and a spare, spacey sound, one which owed a heavy debt to the electro-beat-box style of Afrika Bambaataa, but hinted at the P-Funk leanings of later West Coast rap. "Posse on Broadway" (that's Seattle's Broadway, not New York's) lays out Mix-a-Lot's style, as he poetically unfolds a narrative in his gruff, inimitable voice. He ably channels Run-D.M.C., pairing with fellow locals Metal Church on his re-imagination of "Iron Man." While he hints at the novelty that invaded his later work on sped-up opening track "Buttermilk Biscuits," most of the record is a darker affair, a reminder that, at heart, Sir Mix-a-Lot was a serious, innovative (if often goofy) rapper.
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