''Freaky Tales'' is an album by

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group

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. Released August 14, 2012, prepackaged with the ''Black Pop'' variant edition of '' The Mighty Death Pop!'', it is the group's fifth release with producer Mike E. Clark since his return to

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Background

On April 20, 2012, Psychopathic Records released an

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for the album '' The Mighty Death Pop!'', announcing that it will be available in three separate editions, each with a variant color cover and prepackaged with a bonus album. The second variant, the ''Black Pop'' edition, contains the album ''Freaky Tales'', consisting of an album-length rap. On July 19, 2012, 30-second snippets of ''The Mighty Death Pop!'', ''Freaky Tales'', and the other two bonus albums pre-packaged with ''The Mighty Death Pop!'' were released on

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. A day later, the snippets were removed from the website per Psychopathic Records' request. On August 8, the album along with ''The Mighty Death Pop!'' and its other bonus albums were all released early in the 13th Annual

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Concept and lyrics

''Freaky Tales'' consists of over 60 minutes of " hoe flows". It was inspired by

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's song of the same name, a nine+ minute long sex rap which appeared on his 1987 album ''

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''.

Reception

Reviewing '' The Mighty Death Pop!'' for The Daily Blam, Kevin Skinner favorably reviewed ''Freaky Tales'', calling it "funny but it's definitely the most difficult to grasp". ''

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'' called it "a party record and boundaries-busting endurance test, all at once." ''The Mighty Death Pop!'' and ''Freaky Tales'' were named the 39th best Hip Hop album of 2012 by ''

''.

Track listing

The track listing for the bonus album ''Freaky Tales'' was released as part of the ''Mighty Death Pop'' infomercial.

Personnel

;Band members and production *

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– vocals, lyrics *

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– vocals, lyrics * Mike E. Clark –

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*Brian Kuma - production, programmer, engineer *Jim Kissling - mastering ;Other personnel * Todd Shaw – original lyrics, concept *T. Bohanon - original lyrics *Eric Shetler - album design

References

External links

Official website
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