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Postgraduate Work
''Postgraduate Work'' is a self-produced 7" record released by MC Paul Barman. He recorded it a year after graduating from Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc .... Barman mailed a copy of the 7" to Prince Paul, who was impressed enough to agree to produce the rapper's first EP. Track listing #"MC Fibonacci Sequence vs. Interrupting Rapper" #"A Very Sad Story" #"Enter Pan-Man" #"The Name In All Caps" References MC Paul Barman albums 1998 EPs {{1990s-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MC Paul Barman
Paul Nathaniel Barman (born October 30, 1974), better known by his stage name MC Paul Barman, is an American rapper. He resides in Manhattan, New York. In 2012, ''LA Weekly'' placed him at number 14 on the "Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time" list. Early life Barman is from Ridgewood, New Jersey. He is Jewish. He attended Brown University. Career MC Paul Barman released his debut EP, '' It's Very Stimulating'', on Wordsound in 2000; it was produced by Prince Paul. His first studio album, ''Paullelujah!'', was released on Coup d'État in 2002. He released his second studio album, ''Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud'', on Househusband in 2009. He has toured with Blackalicious. He has taught a hip hop class to high school kids at the Bank Street College of Education. In 2018, he released ''(((Echo Chamber)))'', his first studio album since 2009's ''Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud'', on Mello Music Group. It included productions from MF Doom, Questlove, and Mark Ronson, as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Very Stimulating
''It's Very Stimulating'' is the debut EP by MC Paul Barman, released in 2000. Critical reception Nathan Rabin of AllMusic gave the EP 3 stars out of 5, saying, "Self-deprecating, whip-smart, and adventurous, Barman is a true hip-hop original, a brainy clown with a demented flow that suggests equally the scatological obsessions of Kool Keith and the anything-goes raunchiness of a borscht-belt comic." He added, "Ultimately, ''It's Very Stimulating'' is little more than a simultaneously tempting and frustrating appetizer for Barman's first album, a work that will go a long way toward determining whether Barman is indeed a forward-thinking hip-hop genius or just an over-educated novelty act with a good vocabulary and too much time on his hands." Ryan Kearney of '' Pitchfork'' gave the EP a 5.8 out of 10, saying, "Like wrapping a string around a dead bird, spinning it through the air, and seeing its body fly into the sunroof of a Le Car, MC Paul Barman is odd, funny, and mostly harmles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Brown is one of nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Admissions at Brown is among the most selective in the United States. In 2022, the university reported a first year acceptance rate of 5%. It is a member of the Ivy League. Brown was the first college in the United States to codify in its charter that admission and instruction of students was to be equal regardless of their religious affiliation. The university is home to the oldest applied mathematics program in the United States, the oldest engineering program in the Ivy League, and the third-oldest medical program in New England. The university was one of the early doctoral-granting U.S. institutions in the late 19th century, adding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Paul (producer)
Paul Edward Huston (born April 2, 1967), better known by his stage name Prince Paul, is an American record producer, disc jockey and recording artist from Amityville, New York. Paul began his career as a DJ for Stetsasonic. Since then he has worked on albums by Boogie Down Productions, Gravediggaz, MC Lyte, Big Daddy Kane and 3rd Bass, among others. Major recognition for Prince Paul came when he produced De La Soul's debut album ''3 Feet High and Rising'' (1989), in which he pioneered new approaches to hip hop production, mixing and sampling, notably by including comedy sketches. His first solo album, '' Psychoanalysis: What Is It?'', came out in 1997, followed by a second album, '' A Prince Among Thieves'', in 1999. Life and career Paul was interested in music from a young age and started collecting vinyl when he was five. According to his late mother, he was mature for his age and tended to hang out with older friends. When he was in fifth grade he started DJing, us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
