Thursday, April 26, 2012

That N*****'s Crazy (Stax, 1974) by Richard Pryor


The shock value of this album still holds up, and so I can't even imagine what it was like when this album came out almost 40 years ago.  For as "offensive" as the album is to some, I perceive it as  someone coming to terms with how crazy and different the world can seem. [On Sex] "My Uncle (would say) 'don't you ever kiss no pussy'…I couldn't wait to kiss a pussy.  He'd been wrong about everything else."  [When being stopped by police] "I AM REACHING INTO MY POCKET FOR MY LICENSE."  Eddie Murphy, of course, is also a legend who forever changed comedy.  However, I believe that this album was the first one that really gave it to us raw.

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