Franklin Ajaye
COMEDIAN
A&M SP-4408
Album liner notes are like funeral eulogies. They're very often misleading. Just as a minister can make the death of a rotton mother ________ seem like a tremendous loss to society, liner note writers often extol the virtues of an inferior album, claiming that listening to certain cuts from it will cure every disease known to man. However after you buy the album and listen to it, you feel like finding the dude who wrote the notes, putting a gun up to his head and saying "Hey, you jive sucker, you owe me $5.98, I want it now, and I don't accept checks!"
Due to the fact that on occasion I have also been fooled by 'hype' liner notes I've decided to write about the contents of this album myself.
Side one deals with the experiences and observations about the predominately black high school that I attended. I talk about the hoods or so-called "bad brothers" that made life miserable for teachers and skinny dudes like me. All in all I'm trying to hip people to the other side Room 222 if you dig what I mean. On side two I rap about my college days at UCLA, my experiences in New York City and make I what I consider to be some humorous observations about television shows and commercials.
In summing up I would just like to say that I find a lot of things, events, attitudes etc. in our society absurd, and this album is my attempt to illustrate why I hope you dig it.
PS: 'Cause if you don't dig it you're not getting $5.98 from me, gun or no gun.
SIDE ONE
High School Hoodlums 1:59/ High School Fights 1:25/ Student Government 0:35/ Spanish Names 0:29/ Health Class 1:07/ "B" Football 1:30/ Fremont High 1:27/ Weekend Parties 2:26/ Student Visits Teacher 0:37/ Graduation 2:55/ Black Power Movement 5:39.
SIDE TWO
Basketball UCLA 0:32/ Disneyland 0:10/ New York City 2:40/ Television Shows 3:55/ Football 3:42/ Monsters on Television 2:27/ Commercials: Post Grape-Nuts 1:23/ Skill Schools 1:10/ Public Service Announcements 0:35/ Margarine 0:42/ Playex 1:04/ Going to the Bathroon (Ex-Lax) 1:12/ Trojans 1:02.
Produced by Wally Amos/ Art Direction by Roland Young/ All selections written by Franklin Ajaye, Almo Music ASCAP/ Recorded at the Comedy Store, Los Angeles.
JB
COMEDIAN
A&M SP-4408
Album liner notes are like funeral eulogies. They're very often misleading. Just as a minister can make the death of a rotton mother ________ seem like a tremendous loss to society, liner note writers often extol the virtues of an inferior album, claiming that listening to certain cuts from it will cure every disease known to man. However after you buy the album and listen to it, you feel like finding the dude who wrote the notes, putting a gun up to his head and saying "Hey, you jive sucker, you owe me $5.98, I want it now, and I don't accept checks!"
Due to the fact that on occasion I have also been fooled by 'hype' liner notes I've decided to write about the contents of this album myself.
Side one deals with the experiences and observations about the predominately black high school that I attended. I talk about the hoods or so-called "bad brothers" that made life miserable for teachers and skinny dudes like me. All in all I'm trying to hip people to the other side Room 222 if you dig what I mean. On side two I rap about my college days at UCLA, my experiences in New York City and make I what I consider to be some humorous observations about television shows and commercials.
In summing up I would just like to say that I find a lot of things, events, attitudes etc. in our society absurd, and this album is my attempt to illustrate why I hope you dig it.
PS: 'Cause if you don't dig it you're not getting $5.98 from me, gun or no gun.
SIDE ONE
High School Hoodlums 1:59/ High School Fights 1:25/ Student Government 0:35/ Spanish Names 0:29/ Health Class 1:07/ "B" Football 1:30/ Fremont High 1:27/ Weekend Parties 2:26/ Student Visits Teacher 0:37/ Graduation 2:55/ Black Power Movement 5:39.
SIDE TWO
Basketball UCLA 0:32/ Disneyland 0:10/ New York City 2:40/ Television Shows 3:55/ Football 3:42/ Monsters on Television 2:27/ Commercials: Post Grape-Nuts 1:23/ Skill Schools 1:10/ Public Service Announcements 0:35/ Margarine 0:42/ Playex 1:04/ Going to the Bathroon (Ex-Lax) 1:12/ Trojans 1:02.
Produced by Wally Amos/ Art Direction by Roland Young/ All selections written by Franklin Ajaye, Almo Music ASCAP/ Recorded at the Comedy Store, Los Angeles.
JB