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Track Listing
1. Intro - (with Father Guido Sarducci)
2. If It Wasn't For You - (with De La Soul/Starchild Excalibur)
3. Are You Down With It - (with Mike Patton)
4. World's Gone Mad, The - (with Barrington Levy/Del Tha Funkee Homosapien/Alex Kapranos)
5. Dating Game - (with Tim Meadows/Hines Buchanan/Neelam)
6. Breakdown - (with Jack Johnson)
7. It's Like That / I Am Complete - (with Casual/Tim Meadows)
8. I've Been Thinking - (with Cat Power)
9. Rock And Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This) Part 2 / Knockers - (with Lord Finesse/Mike Shinoda/Chester Bennington/Rahzel/Qbert/Grand Wizard Theadore/Jazzy Jay/Tim Meadows)
10. Hours, The
11. Class System - (with Pharrell Williams/Julee Cruise)
12. First... And Then - (with Dres)
13. A Day In The Life / Good Hygiene - (with RZA/The Mars Volta/AG/Tim Meadows)
14. Greatest Mistake - (with John Oates/Jamie Callum)
15. Dating Game Part 2 - (Part 2, with Tim Meadows/Hines Buchanan/Neelam)
16. Outro - (with Father Guido Sarducci)
Album Notes
Handsome Boy Modeling School: Dan The Automator, Prince Paul.
Additional personnel: Chino Moreno, Julee Cruise, Mike Patton, Pharrell Williams, Barrington Levy (vocals); De La Soul, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Dres, El-P, RZA, Cage (rap vocals); Tim Meadows (spoken vocals); DJ Q-Bert, Kid Koala, Rob Swift (turntables); Paula Frazer, Cat Power (background vocals).
Recording information: The Glue Factory, San Francisco, CA.
Nathaniel Merriweather (AKA Dan the Automator) and Chest Rockwell (AKA Prince Paul) present the second installment in their ongoing saga. As with the duo's debut, SO... HOW'S YOUR GIRL?, it's a comedic love den for the experimental breeding of hip-hop with whatever strikes their mood, be it rock, reggae, nu-metal, jazz, electronica, or dub.
This time the amazingly eclectic guest list includes TV's Father Guido Sarducci, Cat Power, Jack Johnson, members of Linkin Park, Hall & Oates, and Franz Ferdinand, among many others. Surreal advice on dating hygiene alternates with genuine make-out-session-worthy funk (the Prince-esque "Greatest Mistake") and soul (the Otis Redding-esque "Breakdown"). Julee Cruise purrs about tax breaks on "Class System"(with Pharrell Williams), while "Rock and Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This) Part 2" morphs into straight-up AOR rock that may have hip-hop purists thinking they put on the wrong disc. Of course, there are still solid beats and rhymes from Del tha Funkee Homosapien, De La Soul, and others. Throughout WHITE PEOPLE, Merriweather and Rockwell make sure that both their cohorts and their listeners are having a good time.
Industry Reviews
They assemble a galaxy of likely and unlikely vocalists, MCs and guest musicians, then let 'em flex within Handsome Boy Modeling School's quasi-satirical scheme. - 3 out of 5
3 stars out of 5 - [T]he Handsome Boy charm still wins through.
3 stars out of 5 - [A]nother loosely linked selection of skits, guests and bursts of brilliance.
[The] boys can still kick occasionally... - Grade: B
The De La-ish beats are never less than heartwarming, and the Jay-Z parody's quite ballsy. - Grade: B
Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - [A]n album of ridiculously clever mash-ups of rock and hip-hop.
3 1/2 stars out of 5 - [T]he skits keep it realer than reality TV...
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