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  • Artist: Canibus
  • Rating: StarStar
  • Release Date: October 30, 2001
  • Type: Contains explicit content
  • Genre: Rap

Review

Canibus is always doing something different. It seems like most of the better rappers and groups nowadays don't do many albums the same as one another, but adapt their style to keep people intrigued. Canibus does this here, with an almost mellow, laid-back offering. This album is really relaxed; the MC from "100 Bars" or "Poet Laureate" isn't found here. The beginning of the LP starts with a few intros and some tracks where Canibus takes on the form of Stan from the Eminem song. It's interesting, but not necessarily effective. The video game samples used throughout are a really weird thing about this album. Some of them are just plain annoying, but still Canibus proves that he can rock over anything. This is a long album, something that Canibus obviously worked pretty hard on. If you're a die-hard fan, don't expect the MC murderer listeners have grown used to, but don't completely write it off either. An introspective effort. ~ Brad Mills, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Introduction Canibus (1:30)
Stan Lives! G. Williams Canibus (1:26)
U Didn't Care G. Williams Canibus (4:29)
The Rip Off G. Williams Canibus (4:23)
"C" T.H.S. (Title Track) G. Williams Canibus (4:02)
A Different Vibe in L.A. G. Williams Canibus (3:50)
I Gotta Story 2 Tell G. Williams Canibus (2:24)
Stan 'n Can Canibus (1:57)
Hate U 2 G. Williams Jenny Pakman, Canibus (3:32)
Stop Smokin' G. Williams Canibus (3:11)
Lemmie Hear Sumthin' Else G. Williams Canibus (3:50)
Hott Tonight G. Williams Canibus (4:37)
Gotta Get That Doe! G. Williams Canibus (4:07)
R U Lyrically Fit? G. Williams Canibus (3:16)
Ya Teef Iz Yellow G. Williams Canibus (1:29)
Luv U 2 G. Williams Canibus (4:00)
Box Cutta' G. Williams Canibus (2:36)
Draft Me! G. Williams Canibus (4:32)
One of My Favorites G. Williams Canibus (1:41)
"C" T.H.S. (Outro) G. Williams Canibus (1:53)
[Untitled Track] Canibus (1:20)

Credits

Stephen Marsh (Mastering), Luminati (Artwork), All City (Producer), Luminati (Design), Luminati (Layout Design), Jenny Pakman (Performer), Louis Lombard III (Executive Producer), Jim Morgan (Engineer), Nate Oberman (Engineer), Nate Oberman (Mixing), Canibus (Executive Producer), Alywad (Producer)
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C True Hollywood Stories
Studio album by Canibus
Released November 6, 2001 (2001-11-06)
Recorded 2001
Genre Hip hop
Length 64:08
Label Archives Music
Producer All City, Alywad, C4, Canibus, Chips, Diverse, Eben, Louis Lombard III, Pakman, Slice O Life
Professional reviews
Canibus chronology
2000 B.C.
(2000)		 C True Hollywood Stories
(2001)		 Mic Club: The Curriculum
(2002)

C True Hollywood Stories is the third studio album by the rapper Canibus, released through Archives Music on November 6, 2001. The album is Canibus' first release on an independent record label (his first two albums, Can-I-Bus and 2000 B.C., were released on Universal Records). The album was named after the television show E! True Hollywood Story.

Contents

Beef with Eminem

The album has various skits referring to Stan, which at this time in Canibus' career, was beefing with Eminem. The track "Stan Lives!" is a skit that begins seconds before Stan drives off the bridge in Eminem's Stan. U Didn't Care is a song from Stan's point of view.

Eminem's responses were somewhat subliminal on his next release, The Eminem Show. Near the end of "Square Dance", Eminem says

"Can-I-Bitch don't want no parts of me."

Eminem also uses an altered "'Round the Outside" rhyme on the Without Me :

"Two trailer park girls go 'round the outside, 'round the outside, 'round the outside."

Canibus used a similar line on Box Cutta' Blade Runna :

"Canibus is coming for ya’ll 'round the outside, 'round the outside, 'round the outside."

Eminem made a song and released via mixtape called "Can-I-Bitch"

In 2003, an unrelated internet mixtape entitled "The 'E' True Hollywood Mixtape" by Eminem, was released.

Reception

The Onion A.V. club reviewed his track "Draft Me" as follows: "Next-big-thing turned hip-hop footnote Canibus leaped into the post-9/11 xenophobic fray with the noxious macho fantasy "Draft Me." With sophisticated lyrics like "Draft me! I wanna fight for my country / Jump in a Humvee and murder those monkeys!" the song instantly hurled itself into a time capsule of kitsch. At least Canibus proved a man of his word: Denied the compulsory draft he so richly desired, he enrolled in the Army, only to be kicked out for smoking cannabis. How appropriate."[5]

Track listing

  1. "Introduction"
  2. "Stan Lives!" (skit)
  3. "U Didn't Care"
  4. "The Rip Off"
  5. "C True Hollywood Stories"
  6. "A Different Vibe in L.A."
  7. "I Gotta Story 2 Tell"
  8. "Stan 'n Can" (skit)
  9. "Hate U 2" (featuring Pakman)
  10. "Stop Smokin'"
  11. "Lemmie Hear Sumthin' Else" (featuring Pakman)
  12. "Hott Tonight"
  13. "Gotta Get That Doe!" (featuring Pakman)
  14. "R U Lyrically Fit?" (featuring Luminati)
  15. "Ya Teef Iz Yellow" (featuring Pakman) (Skit)
  16. "Luv U 2" (featuring Pakman)
  17. "Box Cutta' Blade Runna"
  18. "Draft Me!" (featuring C-4)
  19. "One of My Favorites" (skit)
  20. "C.T.H.S." (outro)
  21. Bonus track

Charts

Charts[6] Peak
position
U.S. Top Independent Albums 22
U.S. Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums 71

References

  1. ^ Mills, Brad. allmusic ((( "C" True Hollywood Stories > Overview ))). Allmusic. Accessed May 19, 2008.
  2. ^ Wise Q (November 19, 2001). Canibus - "C" True Hollywood Stories. HipHopDX. Accessed May 19, 2008.
  3. ^ Juon, Steve 'Flash' (January 22, 2008). Canibus :: 'C' True Hollywood Stories. RapReviews. Accessed May 19, 2008.
  4. ^ Berliner, Brett (January 9, 2003). C: True Hollywood Stories. Stylus Magazine. Accessed May 19, 2008.
  5. ^ "Baseball, apple pie, and kicking your fucking ass: 21 hilariously hyperbolic pro-America songs". 2008-07-30. http://www.avclub.com/articles/baseball-apple-pie-and-kicking-your-fucking-ass-21,2364/. Retrieved 2009-10-15. 
  6. ^ allmusic ((( "C" True Hollywood Stories > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums ))). Allmusic. Accessed May 19, 2008.

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