Mind Control

Canibus | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 21, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tommy Boy
• ASIN: B0009IOR48
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #314,558 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. 33 3's

2. Canibus Man

3. Atlanta

4. Gybaotc

5. In The Rain

6. Mind Control

7. Last Laugh

8. Not 4 Play feat. Kurupt

9. Stupid Producers

10. Talk The Talk

11. Nobody

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great CD by Can-I-Bus, June 21, 2005

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Ayatollah316 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mind Control (Audio CD)

Even though Canibus was told to change his style for this CD, he did a good job making this CD even though some of the songs suck because its not the same Canibus. I couldnt imagine Canibus making whole tracks based on clubs and bitches and stuff.

1. 33 3's - 5/5
2. Canibus Man - 5/5
3. Atlanta - 2/5
4. Gybaotc - 3/5
5. In The Rain - 4/5
6. Mind Control - 5/5
7. Last Laugh - 5/5
8. Not 4 Play feat. Kurupt - 3/5
9. Stupid Producers - 5/5
10. Talk The Talk - 4/5
11. Nobody - 3/5

Cant wait till Hip-Hop 4 Sale comes out. Good job Bis.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bis' Third Album, July 23, 2005

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Hot Monkey "Hot Monkey" (NYC, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mind Control (Audio CD)

All of this album was recorded after 2000 B.C. and before "C" THS. The producer of this album (won't mention his bi**h a** name) wanted to show the world a softer side of Bis and under contract basically forced bis to do this album in an Un-Rip The Jacker type way. After completion of the album Bis refused to release it due to the fact he felt it was to soft and he didn't feel the beats or production. The producer then having no choice scrapped the project. 5 years later the very same producer knowing he had a Bis album in his archive and hadn't worked with any other big named artists decided to go against Canibus' wishes (now that there contract was up) and go ahead and release the album and a weak album at that. This is the album Bis never wanted you to hear and for a very good reason it sucks. This is a scrapped project that was dug up years later by a broke producer hoping to make money off of Bis' fanbase with an album he honestly thinks is good but only because he produced it. It was a waste of Bis' time and mine along with my money. Buy any other of Canibus' albums:

By favorite order:

1. Canibus
2. Rip the Jacker
3. 2000 B.C.
4. Mic Club
5. C True Hollywood Stories
6. Mind Control

Or you can wait for the fall release of Bis' "Hip Hop for Sale" album wich will be produced by Stoupe The Enemy of Mankind on Babygrande records. Stoupe Produced the "Rip the Jacker" album and is one of the members of the group Jedi Mind Trick (if you haven't heard Jedi Mind Tricks I strongly suggest you do)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very little material, but 3 or 4 hot songs., November 1, 2005

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Leo "Katphish" (Norwich, NY, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mind Control (Audio CD)

There are at least 3 songs on this album that for any real Canibus fan make it worth the money. "33 3's" is a simply brilliant song that displays 'Bis in classic form. "Mind Control", the title track, has a great beat with a catchy, more-mainstream hook, but with good though less abstracted lyrics. "Talk the talk" is simply hot lyrics with a nice beat to it that will grow on you. Here Canibus comes hard against his critics and detractors in an effective way. Those represent the core of this 11 track album, while a 4th --"Canibus Man"-may deserve mentions as a decent Canibus track over a rap-rock beat with a fierce tone, but not Canibus at his best in my opinion.

"Last Laugh" and "Stupid Producers" have both been featured elsewhere and both represent decent, though not great Canibus material. The rest of the album is consists of good lyrics mitigated by melodramatic and often difficult to listen to delivery, mixed with poor beats. Not much worth mentioning.

As always Bis shines on the mic with sick lyrics, and "33 3's" especially demonstrates classic Canibus concept and lyrics that his die hard fans love so much. Over-all though, we have 11 tracks, one of which ("Nobody") isn't even an actual song (and was also previously featured on the "My Name is Nobody" cut). So what we have here is really 3 good songs, 1 pretty good one, 2 good ones that were previously out there, a few other songs ranging from junk to decent (depending on if they grow on you) and an introspective and very philosophical outro track that is also old material. Is it worth your money? To the average hip-hop fan? Probably not. Go pick up "Mic Club" or "Rip The Jacker" or any other of his albums for that matter if you want a better sense of Canibus' talent.

For a true Canibus fan? You've probably heard around 33% of this already anyhow, but the good songs might be worth the dough; think of it as a pricey single. Still, while this might be somewhat disappointing-particularly considering the quality and progression begun by his last two albums-it's still worth 4 stars based on the quality of the 3 or 4 good songs, and the other 2 or 3 decent (though old) songs on here. But the lack of content and the reuse of old stuff is pretty depressing.