Party Fun Action Committee is a hip hop group who's first album, Let's Get Serious, is a satirical, comic hip hop album. Hip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban African American youth in New York and has since spread around the world. ...

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Members

The group's members are Blockhead and Jer. Blockhead is a renowned producer who has produced songs for Aesop Rock as well as Cage Aesop Rock performing at a concert Aesop Rock (born Ian Bavitz) is an avant-garde hip hop musician (rapper and producer) whose albums have been critically acclaimed for their originality and depth. ...

Discography

Let's Get Serious (2003). The album is framed by two caucasian record executives listening to a box of demo tapes and rating each one. They fawn over each selection, even when criticizing some aspect of it. The album is a satire of modern hip hop culture, specifically modern rap genres, and of the out of touch record producers who make the decisions of what artists should be signed. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Satire is a literary technique not of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ...

Track Listing (with ficticious artist listing)

(+ denotes non-musical interlude)

1. Intro (2:20)
2. Mental Storm by The Mystical Knights of the Vizual Roundtable (2:22)
3. Whatchu Know Now by Kornhole (4:14)
4. Be My Lady Intro+ (0:44)
5. Be My Lady by Flohamed Ali featuring Ja Mellow (1:55)
6. I Shoulda Known by A.B.C.D.E.F.Gee (5:08)
7. Word Up? Intro+ (1:13)
8. Word Up? by Andrew Q and the Free Jazz Crusaders (1:55)
9. Beer by The Brothers of the Alpha Pi Kappa Fraternity (5:17)
10. Chapstick Intro+ (1:03)
11. Chapstick by Sweet Pickles and MC Noel Weissman (2:12)
12. I am... by Das Jinglehorse (5:19)
13. Peter Pan Intro+ (0:39)
14. Peter Pan by The Captain Gowns (3:27)
15. Back N Da Daiz by Tony Simon and Jeremy Gibson (4:18)
16. Outro / Here Comes the Rock (2:19)

Analysis & Targets

Each song on the album attacks a particular genre or subculture of hip hop music.

• Track 2: Mental Storm imitates abstract rappers such as Jedi Mind Tricks, Non Phixion and perhaps Busdriver, co-opting a verbose, highly conceptual, sometimes nonsensical rapid-fire flow.
• Track 3: Whatchu Know Now is an assault on rap metal or rapcore bands such as Korn, Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit.
• Track 5: Be My Lady mocks R&B-inflected hip hop songs, as it seemingly targets the gravelly voice of Ja Rule, and a robotic instrumental track indicative of R&B of the late 1990s.
• Track 6: I Shoulda Known not only copies the style of R. Kelly, but also references his legal problems with underage girls, first telling the story of having a sexual encounter with a man in drag, and later of sleeping with a teenage girl. The instrumental is a slow R&B sound that sounds like any number of R&B artists.
• Track 8: Word Up? is a mock-Slam poetry track, only extremely simplistic in both content and rhyme scheme, in the style of Sarah Jones, Saul Williams and other performance poets.
• Track 9: Beer is not so much an indictment of any particular rap genre, but rather the frat-boy mentality, including the often homosexually-tinged ritual of hazing. It references frat-house favorites House of Pain and DMX.
• Track 11: Chapstick addresses Nerdcore hip hop artists, particularly MC Paul Barman, imitating Barman's multi-syllabic rhyme scheme.
• Track 12: I Am feigns a European-techno sound that does not seem to identify any particular artist or genre, but mocks men that are weak ("I am a pussy...") and selfish people who have no regard for others ("I am an asshole...").
• Track 13: Peter Pan is the one song on the album that has very little to do with rap at all. It is an a capella song with several vocal tracks about a man who wishes he could be friends with Peter Pan, Robin Hood and The Little Prince. There is no known genre of hip-hop music that this song could target. In fact, the two faux-record executives discussing the song at the end of the track acknowledge that this song was probably added in error.
• Track 15: Back N Da Daiz mocks the common urge for hip hop artists to make nostalgic songs about the past, such as "Back in the Day" by Ahmad or "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y)" by Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth. The song starts out nostaglic (if insipid) before devolving into a litany of horrible acts the rappers have committed.
• Track 16: Outro/Here Comes the Rock is not a hip hop song but is rather a heavy metal spoof to end the album.

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Hip Hop Albums with Similar Themes

Let's Get Serious follows the tradition of many similar hip hop albums that take the genre to task for any number of perceived vices and/or shortcomings. Other albums include:

• Slaughtahouse by Masta Ace Inc. Inc
• Psychoanalysis by Prince Paul

Master Ace Master (Masta) Ace is an an African-American rapper from Brooklyn, New York. ... Prince Paul (born Paul Huston) is a American musician active primarily in hip hop. ...

See also

• Hip Hop
• Comedy Rap
• Def Jux

Hip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban African American youth in New York and has since spread around the world. ... Definitive Jux (a. ...

External link

• Definitive Jux Homepage - PFAC