Konexion

Freddie Foxxx | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 10, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rapster
• ASIN: B000093OO4
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,267 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

From URB Magazine

Freddie Foxxx (a.k.a. Bumpy Knuckles) is among rap’s angriest characters, sporting energized fists and a brutal bark. He remains perennially pissed at nearly everyone in the rap game, and he turns this outing into a mission to thwart loads of hip-hop foes with over-the-top swipes. Instead of attempting to out-rhyme punch-line MCs on "Drop A Jewel," he’ll pummel them. Continuing his outrageous steelo, "Swazee" includes this agitated chorus: "Don’t make me hurt you/Nigga/Don’t make me kill you/Cracka." Acting like hip-hop’s overprotective pops, Foxxx condemns further on "No I Ain’t With It" with a self-produced, bob-inspiring electric guitar loop. The cut takes more meddling MCs to task and his recurrent, bullying presence will encourage multitudes of shook ones. "Gangsta’s Again" wonders, "Who’s the next rapper I smash and smack silly?" Though his anti-wack crusade is noble, the overwrought, menacing material makes for excessive listener exhaustion.

Craig Smith

Product Description

"I am talking about the war between Hip Hop & The Corporate Structure." –Bumpy Knuckles

The Streets are ready for another record by Freddie Foxxx aka ‘Bumpy Knuckles’. It has been three years since Foxxx dropped Industry Shakedown. He knows people are craving some real Hip Hop and is about to drop Konexion to prove it. Armed with rhymes, ideas, beats and experience Foxxx is amped to promote and champion his brand of Hip Hop to the real heads...

Complete with Beats by DJ Premier and Clark Kent, Konexion is a thorough artists’ album. Foxxx’s effortless and angst flow, coupled with his unabashed honesty make his return well worth the wait!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 1-1/2 stars -- I think I'm going to cry, June 18, 2003

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Anthony Rupert "shut up, Shut Up, SHUT UP!!!" (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Konexion (Audio CD)

I have been feeling Freddie Foxxx (or Bumpy Knuckles) ever since he helped Guru and Big Shug rip up "The Militia". And I really liked his album Industry Shakedown. But I can't say the same for Konexion. It pains me to say this, but this album isn't even worth downloading.

The title track, which samples Kleeer's "Intimate Connection", is really the only tolerable song on here, next to the last track, "New Millenium" (if you even get that far). Too many songs have production that doesn't work well with Bumpy's flow. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell that "PAINE" and "Lazy!!!" were produced by DJ Premier. "Step Up" sounds like a bad remix of D12's "Purple Pills", and the way people in the background keep saying "Whoa!" in that song doesn't help matters.

But production isn't the main problem. The lyrics on this album range from weak to wack. It made me ask, "Is this really Bumpy Knuckles?" Wack choruses can be found in "Stick `Em Up!", "Swazzee", "Tell Me", and...well, pretty much the whole album. And the verses in these songs aren't the best, either.

I know this is too easy, but better title tracks for this album would have been "Lazy!!!" or "Mega Bomb Dropper". And to do a hyped-up (if not self-indulgent) interview in the intro and then give us 74 minutes of confusion (yep, I said 74 minutes - what's up with Bumpy and way-too-long albums?) is a very bad move. In short, how do I feel about this album? In the words of track 12, "No, I Ain't With It!"

Anthony Rupert

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The beats and rhymes don't make a "konexion", November 4, 2003

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E.J. Rupert (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Konexion (Audio CD)

Freddie Foxxx - Konexion (Rapster, 2003)

What a disappointment this album is. And they wonder why file-sharing programs exist, so you can listen to the album before you buy it! On every song of this album, either the production is decent or the lyrics are tight; it's one of the other, never both. The only exception to this is "Me!!" when Bumpy Knucks drops jewel after jewel over a nice beat: "I seen Q-Tip turn into Maxwell and Shyne go to jail/White boys want my culture but they don't want my life/'Cuz when they stop being n****s they go back to being white". But in the song before that, he spits wack rhymes like, "I'm not like you/You're not like me/No matter what they say, boy/You're not like me". Also, why is he always so mad? He complains that the industry is shady but it's hard to take him seriously with these plastic beats. He needs more beats from Primo, Pete Rock, Alchemist, and even himself like Industry Shakedown had. -EJR

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Major disappointment, March 10, 2004

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Michel Mees (Ekeren, Antwerp BELGIUM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Konexion (Audio CD)

Crazy As A Foxxx and Industry Shakedown were as hot and street as it gets. This album is the opposite, it's like they asked him to put his worse out and the beats he got arent much either. Just another example of how those record companies continue to destroy hip-hop, rappers are asked to put out albums that are as flat as a white girls butt. Nowadays the simpler and wacker your album is the more you sell.