''Skeezer Pleezer'' is the second album by the American musical group

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, released in 1986 on

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. Due to personal issues, Educated Rapper was absent from this album, except the track, "Pick Up the Pace." The most notable song was "Split Personality," a

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to dissociative identity disorder. The album was produced by Full Force.

Critical reception

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praised the "cheerfully amoral anticrime versifying of 'Just Watch'." ''

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'' opined that "the attempts at singing ... are flat-out disasters."

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noted that UTFO "were essentially already in stylistic retreat as the gimmick tag they picked up for the success of 'Roxanne, Roxanne' was proving difficult to shake."

Track listing

#"Just Watch" #"Where Did You Go?" #"We Work Hard" #"Kangol & Doc" #"The House Will Rock" #"Split Personality" #"Pick Up the Pace" #"Bad Luck Barry" #(untitled hidden track)

References

UTFO albums 1986 albums Select Records albums Albums produced by Full Force {{1980s-hiphop-album-stub