Mic Club: The Curriculum

Canibus | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 19, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mic Club
• ASIN: B00007BH4Z
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (79 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,051 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #23 in Music > Indie Music > Rap & Hip-Hop > East Coast

Track Listings

1. Mic Club Intro

2. Poet Laureate

3. Master Thesis

4. Behind Enemy Rhymes

5. Allied Meta-Forces

6. Cenoir Studies 02

7. 'C' Section

8. Drama A/T

9. Dr C Phd

10. Bis Vs Rip

11. Liberal Arts

12. Curriculum 101

13. Mic Club Outro

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ILL lyrics + ILL production = Mic Club: The Cirriculum, November 25, 2002

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T. Walsh "mc-skittlez" (New Jeru) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mic Club: The Curriculum (Audio CD)

"Canib---h don't want to beef with Slim, NOOOOOOO" - Eminem (from Square Dance)

It's really funny how Eminem is concentrating only on Benzino right now and totally avoiding Canibus. Sure shows the b---- in Slim...

It's about time that hiphop's best-kept secret, Canibus, started making noise again. After last year's controversial, misunderstood, blunder 'C True Hollywood Stories', Bis put out something truly great both lyrically and production-wise...

'Mic Club: The Cirriculum' is intended for hardcore Bis fans or underground fans abroad. The complex highly intelligent rhyming on this will be over any Nelly fan's head! This is just straight hardcore LYRICS LYRICS LYRICS.... there are basically NO choruses to be found on this CD!! (who needs a chorus anyway) This'll satisfy anybody's lyrical appetite... Bis goes well beyond 100 bars almost on each song... (he has the ability to make 100 bars look like an easy task now!)

The best thing Canibus has ever done in his career was to form an alliance with Jedi Mind Tricks! Even though there's only one track with them, having Bis rhyme over a Stoupe beat was the perfect ingredient to a bangin' CD! (Canibus & Stoupe - will be releasing a CD next spring--- be ready to cream your pants)...

Stand out tracks:
"Poet Laurette" - has a 100 bars feel to it... Bis going all out on an old-school style beat
"Allied Meta-Forces" - Bis & G Rap are a dangerous tag-team
"Cenior Studies" - WOW!

"Drama A/T" - see review for Cenior Studies
"Dr. C PHD" - completely craps all over Eminem
"Bis vs. Rip" - Canibus battles his own alter ego... this sounds like a schizophrenic track
"Liberal Arts" - Canibus and JMT --- HISTORY IN THE MAKING
"Cirriculum 101" - JUST STRAIGHT ILL... takes more stabs at Eminem...

* notice how basically the stand out tracks I mentioned make up about 80% of the album... This CD is like '2000 BC' and all of the 'Pre-Can-I-Bus' multiplied by 10! This CD is worth the $$$ you pay for it... Don't sleep, support Canibus, support underground hiphop....

Hiphop is dying...

I'm Out... Mind Power!!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No Chorus, March 17, 2003

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Ecin "Ocho Zero Nine" (Villa Juana City-Miami, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mic Club: The Curriculum (Audio CD)

If you don't like hooks and chorus and enjoy pure rap, this album's for you. This is an emcee not BSing w/ commercial ish. Pure lyrics. Due to complex lyrics, this album isn't meant for uneducated individuals. If you're smart and like rap, cop this album! Let the mind stimulation begin.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "100 Bars Ain't Impressive to Me No More", December 17, 2002

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Mishima Triad (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mic Club: The Curriculum (Audio CD)

Canibus says this on the first song of the album, and after listening to the album you should be able to see why. Canibus is definitely back. I never heard his last album, but several people (whose musical opinion I actually trust) said that it was kinda whack and Bis was tryin to go mainstream or somethin. Anyway, Canibus picks up where he left off on 2000 B.C. on this album. The first thing to note about this album is that there are very few songs with choruses, which I find very impressive. Second, on the majority of songs, he flows without stopping from start to finish and spits lyrics that make sense without pausing or sounding stupid like most rappers out there today. Also, the beats are very good overall and mix together really well with Bis's style of rap. And you would think that with Eminem's recent dissing Canibus, that he would focus on dissin Eminem. While he throws some hard disses in at opportune moments on the album, he doesn't focus the album on dissin in particular. He mainly focuses on flowin and keepin rap real. All in all, I'd say this is one of the best albums I've heard this year (along with Talib Kweli & Blackalicious), if not the best of the year. Despite the fact that I love Can-i-bus & 2000 B.C., this may be Bis's best album as well. I would definitely recommend this for any Canibus fan (even if you were disappointed with C: True Hollywood Stories) and for any hip-hop fan that wants some real sh!# and not just some shake your a$$ bullsh!# music.