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So...How's Your Girl?  (Audio CD) 
by Handsome Boy Modeling School

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As if A Prince Among Thieves wasn't conceptual enough, Prince Paul has now joined forces with Dan the Automator to create Handsome Boy Modeling School, an outlet through which the duo (and a dozen or so of their closest big-name friends) can mix and mingle with rap, turntablism, trip-hop, and--of course--tongue-in-cheek humor. And while this idea may sound original, its name came straight from an episode of Chris Elliott's short-lived sitcom Get a Life. Elliott--the goofball writer and cameo guest for David Letterman--springs up a few times on the disc in the form of a few vocal samples, but mostly this show is centered around the guests: Encore provides the disc's best rap on "Waterworld," Grand Puba and Sadat X (from Brand Nubian) perform "Once Again" on top of a sample of Three Dog Night's "Old Fashioned Love Song," and DJ Shadow does his usual magic with the 1200s on "Holy Calamity." Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto), Mike D., Sean Lennon, Alec Empire, and even Father Guido Sarducci are also along for the crowded ride. Does this runway of cameos ever sound thematically cohesive? Hell, no. With this many friends helping out, do we really need to hear Prince Paul on the phone with Biz Markie ("Calling the Biz")? Of course not. But this name-dropping vanity fair is nothing if not ambitious, and chances are there's something here that you'll dig. --Jason Verlinde

Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date: October 19, 1999
Studio: Elektra / Ada
Number Of Discs: 1
Average Customer Rating: based on 57 reviews
Track Listing:
1. Rock n' Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This) - Handsome Boy Modeling School
2. Magnetizing - (featuring Del Tha Funkee Homosapien)
3. Metaphysical - Handsome Boy Modeling School, Miho Hatori, Mike D
4. Look at This Face (Oh My God They're Gorgeous) - Handsome Boy Modeling School
5. Waterworld - Encore, Handsome Boy Modeling School
6. Once Again (Here to Kick One for You) - Grand Puba, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Sadat X
7. Truth - Handsome Boy Modeling School, J-Live, Roisin
8. Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II) - DJ Quest, DJ Shadow, Handsome Boy Modeling School
9. Calling the Biz - Biz Markie, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Prince Paul
10. Projects (PJays) - Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Handsome Boy Modeling School
11. Sunshine - Paula Frazer, Handsome Boy Modeling School, , Josh Hayden, Sean Lennon, Money Mark, Father Guido Sarducci
12. Modeling Sucks - Bob Elliot, Chris Elliot
13. Torch Song Trilogy - Handsome Boy Modeling School,
14. Runway Song - Handsome Boy Modeling School, Kid Koala
15. Megaton B-Boy 2000 - El-P, Alec Empire, Handsome Boy Modeling School
16. Father Speaks - Father Guido Sarducci
 
Customer Reviews:
Average Customer Review:4.5
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2Limited originality  Sep 19, 2009
2 1/2

Heavily cited underground hip-hop covers ground of indie rap efficiently, though hardly goes above and beyond off-kilter personality and generic multi-genre collaboration to provide fulfilling structure.

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3Great album but...  Mar 03, 2008
I originally bought this album about 4 years ago. It's awesome, great and amazing in every way... however it got beat up from continuous play. I just bought the digital download and didn't realize that EVERY single track is the same as the original save one. For whatever reason they slip in some horrible remix of one of my favorite songs on the album. I am pissed.

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4Great Theme for an Album  Jun 29, 2007
This CD has grown on me alot. Track 4 is hilarious yet at the same time has a real good beat to it. Real kick back beats and goes well with any type of Hiphop/Rap collection. Both these guys are well known for their talent, when it comes to producing. Pick it up only if your a true head.

2 of 3 found the following review helpful:

5You won't regret for long...  Sep 16, 2006
Before I came to Handsome Boy Modeling School, I was handsome but without refinements, you know. Knowing which fork is for the salad at dinner, how to select a wine and knowing a napkin goes on one's lap instead of the logical tuck under chin are all points of greater emotional security for me now. I possess the confidence to actually show up for a date when I said I would be there. You too, will feel the liberation of knowing the secrets of Chest and Nathaniel. Don't hesitate, please. Even there, I said, "please" when before I would have just said, "do it bitch!"

Prince Paul and Dan the Automator created the better mouse trap with this particular concept that also entails "White People" and "Lovage." The hip-hopera works well in the framing of this fictitious modeling school. The cast is nothing less than incredible both in content of who they are and in the performances served up. This transcends categorization of strictly hip-hop. It should appeal to a very wide range of musical interests while not betraying it's theme. There is also a duality of self-deprecation for hip-hop and a celebration of hip-hop existing here. This is very much the sensation I feel with "Three Feet High and Rising" and "DeLaSoul is Dead." All artistic outlets should keep it in perspective and not take themselves too seriously. Otherwise you end up like Bobby Brown, Flav, or Dennis Miller.

I don't consider myself a fan of hip-hop, mainly because I am uninitiated. I listen to clawhammer banjo and am a self-professed collector of klezmer music. Nonetheless, I find the Dan Nakamura and Prince Paul collaborations brilliant! Plenty of big kick bass for everyone, so don't panic!

You'll love the Tim Meadows, Don Novell (Father Guido Sarducci), Chris and Bob Elliot, et al. Do what you can to insure you have the Handsome Boy Modeling School iterations in your collection. And screw those people who don't "get it."

Peace.

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5Portishead meets Hip-hop  May 07, 2006
Everything Dan The Automator has worked on is well worth putting into your iPOD or CD Player... over and over again. "So...How's Your Girl?" is a more serious attempt at producing a classic blues variety of hip-hop which is at a tangent to the gasta' hip-hop that has become mainstream. This is the other side of hip-hop that now seems to be the future of where hip-hop is moving and is certainly eons more musical, where ganga' is more interested in producing harder, faster more complex raps (not to say that Dan The Automator & co don't do that, they do, and very well) these sounds and literally just that... sounds, and they sound great. So once you have finally gone through the mainstream stuff you will probably venture down the avenues of MF Doom, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif and most certainly you will want to start a Dan the Authomator collection. Deltron 3030 will get you into this rapper. Even if you don't like the blues, Dan the Automator just makes it sound so good here on "So...How's Your Girl". Get it.

 
 
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