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Blowin Up

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This CD is original & funny!!! I did not know much of Jamie Kennedy except from Malibu's Most Wanted,which cracked me up. I did not know Stu at all before this. I happened to watch Blowin Up on MTV when my 2 teenage sons were watching it and I LOVED it. The TWO of them are hysterical. I did not miss an episode. I never saw anything as funny as the Tracey Morgan episode. The show prompted me to get the CD and I was not disappointed at all.

This album is great in so many ways...it's funny, the beats are great and it all comes together so nicely! The overall tone of the album is FUN...and that's what I get out of it. It's not everyday you can get a laugh out of songs that you really enjoy. I can't stop listening! Great job boys...look forward to more from you...and please bring back Blowin Up for a season 2!

OK, first things first: Yeah, I watched the show. SO WHAT. It was ok. But the thing is I really digged some of the songs. So I had to give it a shot. OMG I was not disappointed. The beats are really good! Jems on the album are #1, 10, 11, 14, 18. I really do like it. THis is coming from somebody who really isn't into pop-stuff and is a major b-boy (Classic Wu-Tang, Illmatic, Biggie, Pac, Eric B. Ect.) Trust me you'll love this stuff.

This was one of the funniest collections of skits you'll ever see. I laughed so hard I was gasping for air. Jamie Kennedy can look like a thousand different people, all totally unique. This is a must own!!!
Damon Medic

I bought this album just to hear this song. It's well worth the price of admission. I was rolling when they performed this on tv!

Yesterday didn't see the arrival of not one album that is the product of an MTV reality show, but two. But unlike yesterdays other release Cheyenne which is repeated ad nauseam, Blowin' Up rarely gets a repeat so I really haven't caught much because I really don't know when the first run episodes show. From what I have seen, the show is hit and miss with Jamie Kennedy playing the slightly mentally retarded one and his sidekick Stu Stone as an overanxious wannabe.

But after seeing the video for Rollin' w/ Saget, I had high expectations thinking the duo could become the twenty-first century "Weird Al" Yankovic. Unfortunately for half the album, it sounds like they are actually trying to be legit. But the beats are second rate making them sound like Brian Austin Green (who they ironically shout-out during the album). They even were able to corral actual rappers to donate verses like Kardinal Offishal. E-40 recreates (along with Jason Biggs) his Jamie Kennedy diss track and straight off is appearance on the Brooke Hogan song, Paul Wall shows up on Mattress Mack. This begs the question what is Paul Wall's sadder guest appearance. But I do have to give it up to Stu for throwing the line, "Homeruns in H-Town like my name was Berkman" into that song. Luckily Ice-T doesn't degrade himself bye rapping on a track but just shows up to show his support for Kennedy, but his wife Coco steals the track by giving Stu some love.

As for the songs that I think that were supposed to be funny, they rarely warrant a chuckle. 1984 may have been funnier had Bowling for Soup hadn't lampooned the seminal time period two years ago. The token diss track Knuckle Up is upstaged by the previous skit where Kennedy is hesitant about dissing Ashton Kutcher and Colin Ferrell. Celebrity Stalker is slightly funnier where the boys hit on ckicks that normal dudes would pass up, "My favorite show to (expletive deleted) to? Gotta be The Facts of Life. (Expletive deleted) Lindsay Lohan, give me Mindy Cohn." But the song does have very little replay value. Then there is Bologna, and the previous Blaine's Story Skit, which should have gay right groups up in arms. Not that it makes fun of them, instead just on the principal that it is one of the dumbest songs ever recorded.

But the crown jewel of the album, and the only song worth listening to again is Rollin' w/ Saget. After hearing the rest of the album, it's clear that it is Danny Tanner himself that is the comical genius behind the song as there are very few bits more hilarious then hearing him say, "I got a (expletive deleted) like a donkey, (expletive deleted) as a rock and a trigger finger itchier than chicken pox." We did indeed witnessed the strength of Bob Saget and you got to love the N.W.A. reference to intro Saget. Before the song there's even a bit with Saget calling Kennedy's voice mail suggesting they go out and date someone's daughters.

Rollin' W/ Saget, the I Don't Want Beef (skit), Knuckle Up, Mattress Mack, and Blane's Story (skit) along with the Bologna song are the only enjoyable tracks on this album to me, and they do not have that much replay value to them. I just think they got confused to what their mission was to making this album; it didn't really make me laugh besides the two skits, and the rap songs weren't great to me, they tried to take themselves too seriously and forgot the whole point, to become a contemporary version of weird al yankovich that is actually funny;

Instead, I think JK just tried to live out a personal fantacy of doing a, for the most part, professional sounding and quality rap album, rather than making his fans laugh, which is why I bought the album in the first place. I loved the "THE LEFT ONE" on his unwashed CD; it was hilarious and had a tight hip hop beat that was unique and plain awesome, but this album did not follow the leadership of "the left one" but rather the leadership of a confused pair who forgot what they had originally set out to do, make a comedy album in the form of rap.