Saturday, July 21, 2012

Bigger & Blacker (Dreamworks, 1999) by Chris Rock

The late 90s was an interesting time in America.  The Clinton/Lewinsky scandal.  The shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado.  The increasing popularity of the Internet in society and business.  And Rock's Bigger & Blacker touches on a lot of it.  My favorite routine in this album is his cynical take on insurance and how things will only be done to a point in medicine so that big business will continue to flourish.  "No Sex in the Champagne Room" was a funny video and skit/monologue, but I think the best ones on the album are O.D.B.'s "Words of Wisdom."  The best of them being: "If a brick couldn't sit on walls no more, what would you ask it?"

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