Hispanic Causing Panic

Kid Frost | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 28, 1990)
• Label: Atlantic / Wea
• ASIN: B00008EQ6K
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #578,689 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. La Raza

2. Hold Your Own

3. Straight to the Bank

4. Come Together

5. Smoke

6. Ya Estuvo (That's It)

7. Homicide

8. Hispanic Causing Panic

9. In the City

10. La Raza [Cantina Mix]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good First Album, July 9, 2002

By 

Water Monkey "Marc B." (Santa Clarita, Ca.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hispanic Causing Panic (Audio CD)

Racist? Hardly. Kid Frost was one of the first hispanic rappers who exploded on the music scene. With acts like Gerrardo trying to represent "La Raza", Kid Frost came out and let everyone know what life was like in East L.A.

Admittingly Kid Frost seems to borrow from earlier black rappers like Big Daddy Kane, and has an angry pen pointed back at his own community (like Ice-T and Ice Cube), Kid Frost enters the realm previously occupied by black rappers (and Vanilla Ice).

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Racist no way! Proud of his Culture Yes!, December 10, 2004

By 

Tsume Yamamoto "Tsume" (Los Angeles, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hispanic Causing Panic (Audio CD)

This is for "la raza" which means my people is not racist by any terms. Those who say he is are just simply ignorant of the point of view of which he is coming from. Brown is beautiful is all he is trying to say and that he is also proud of his heritage and people which do not even know there roots and have no culture behind them could never understand because the only culture they know is what they see on TV. This doesn't come from the real people themselves. Kid Frost tells the truth on how hispanics live in East L.A.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic, December 31, 2007

By 

Ana, Amina, & April "The Sisters Garcia" (Atlanta, GA/ Guadalajara, MX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hispanic Causing Panic (Audio CD)

This album is classic, and honestly even though it's not representative of most Chicano rap that you hear nowadays, you can see how Frost set the stage with a couple of tracks, especially "La Raza". "La Raza" is immortal -- the first of its kind when it comes to Chicano rap. The whole album definitely has a very old-school feel to it, with the voice clips starting many of the tracks. As another reviewer mentioned, he seems to borrow from earlier black rappers. Some of the tracks his flow sounds a little like LL Cool J, because he has a hard and direct delivery, but then again many rappers had a somewhat similar sound at this time.

Favorite Tracks:

**Ya Estuvo - this one is really cool and pioneering for the time. Kid Frost delivers a rap line by line, first in Spanish then in English.

**Homicide - Frost shows off his "storytelling" skills in this. He begins, "This is a dramatization.... Homicide, on the murder scene/ another frustrated gang-related senseless slaying/ victim, a young product of the projects/ system, the sad fact is that nobody's gonna miss him"

**Hispanic Causing Panic - Even though the word Hispanic is like fingernails on a chalkboard to The Sisters Garcia, we recognize that the track was made a time with the word was new and Frost was just trying it out, so we forgive him. This track has a great flavor.

Frost is way ahead of his time. His lyrics and observations are much more astute than the Chicano rap losers that are popular today like "Mr. Capone-E" and "Lil Cuete", but unfortunately the same can be said for most rap in general. If you'd like to take a trip back to the golden age and see how it all got started, check out this album.

Recommended for: any hip-hop heads