Seminar

Sir Mix-A-Lot | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 30, 1992)
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002LUD
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #125,042 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Seminar

2. Beepers

3. National Anthem

4. My Hooptie

5. Gortex

6. The (Peek-A-Boo) Game

7. I Got Game

8. I'll Roll You Up

9. Something About My Benzo

10. My Bad Side

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Full of great songs!, April 12, 2002

By 

P. Dussin "funkyperfesser" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seminar (Audio CD)

I agree that if you buy only one Mix-A-Lot album, this should be the one. It is funny, clever, and bumpin'. It's not the perfect album, but it shows both Mix's strengths and weaknesses.

Mix's strength are the songs that are funny, or at least tongue-in-cheek, and "Beepers", "My Hooptie", "Gortex", "I Got Game", and "Something About My Benzo" are all brilliant. Mix's self-deprecating in the midst of boasting are what make his song lyrics great.

For example, in "I Got Game" (I think Mix's all-around best song), a great, driving cut about a day in which he goes out to pick up as many freaks as he can, after picking up one girl, he says "Roll to the hotel/game was strong/she thought I spent bank/but I really spent coupons". The lyrics to this song are all playa.

Mix's weakness is for songs that potray him as hard, or songs with a serious message. On this album, they clash, and the serious songs don't make a good showing.

"My Bad Side" is a hard hitting rap song where Mix is mad, and it works, as does "I'll Roll You Up", but "Seminar", "National Anthem", and "Peek-A-Boo Game", other songs where he takes a serious tone, fall flat and sound preachy and tedious. That's especially true for "National Anthem", which while it may have a serious message, doesn't fit at all between the hilarious "Beepers" and the odd, funny "Gortex". I actually just skip the serious songs when I listen.

And the oddest sounding song on the album, a funny, slow-ride, take-it-easy rap about Mercedes Benzes that makes you wish you own one, "Something About My Benzo", should really be more of a classic. "Not one I got three/I collect 'em you see/ an SEL, a 190, and and SEC".

On the whole though, this album is the bomb, because the good songs are really, really good, Mix's beats are strong, and his lyrics are tight and humorous. This is a great classic hip hop album. You should own it!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MixALOT!, October 29, 2008

By 

Frank Jenkins - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seminar (Reis) (Audio CD)

I love Mixalot, who would of thought a 40 year old white guy jammin to Mix. One of the best cd's ever in my mind. Go mix!

5.0 out of 5 stars MIXALOTS BEST ALBUM, December 31, 2009

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j_nicho_g "glock" (bakersfield,ca) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Seminar (Reis) (Audio CD)

If you think Mixalot is all about baby got back and thats it then you have to listen to this album. From the fast tempo track SEMINAR to the eerie story of PEEK-A-BOO GAME to the hard knock beat of NATIONAL ANTHEM this album fails to dissapoint. In my opinion this is in the top 100 rap/hip-hop albums of all time. Pick this one up you wont regret it.