- hip hop, west coast hip hop, hip-hop
- 58 min
- 16 tracks
- Delicious Vinyl
Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde is the debut album by the American hip-hop collective the Pharcyde. It was released on November 24, 1992, through Delicious Vinyl. The album was produced by J-Swift, and features Buckwheat of the Wascals on two tracks. In the years after its release, Bizarre Ride has been hailed by music critics and alternative hip-hop fans as a classic hip-hop album and has appeared in numerous publications' "best albums" lists.
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Character-led, spare, classical in form and cool.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer4/4 ★
- Q4/5 ★
- Select4/5
- The Source3.5/5 ★
- AllMusic5/5 ★
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 ★
- Pitchfork9.3/10
- RapReviews9.5/10
- Record Collector5/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 14 Better or 4 Worse (interlude)0:42
- 2Oh Shit4:34
- 3It’s Jigaboo Time (skit)1:31
- 44 Better or 4 Worse5:07
- 5I’m That Type of Nigga5:21
- 6If I Were President (skit)1:06
- 7Soul Flower (remix)4:27
- 8On the DL4:32
- 9Pack the Pipe (interlude)0:25
- 10Officer4:04
- 11Ya Mama4:25
- 12Passing Me By5:08
- 13Otha Fish5:26
- 14Quinton’s on the Way (skit)2:14
- 15Pack the Pipe5:08
- 16Return of the B‐Boy3:32
16 tracks, 58 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Pharcyde
- Label
- Delicious Vinyl
- Released
- 1992
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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