Sons of the P [Import]

Digital Underground | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 5, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: PID
• ASIN: B0000275EC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #244,677 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dflo Shuttle

2. Heartbeat Props

3. No Nose Job

4. Sons of the P

5. Flowin' on the D-Line

6. Kiss You Back

7. Tales of the Funky

8. The Higher Heights of Spirituality

9. Family of the Underground

10. The D-Flowstrumental

11. Good Thing We're Rappin'

Editorial Reviews

Originally Release '91, Second full length album from Oakland Rap group which pays homage to Parliament & Funkadelic. Includes the hit " Kiss You Back" and features special guests 2 Pac & George Clinton .

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The stellar followup to "Sex Packets", March 18, 2001

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Roger Williams (Providence, RI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sons of the P (Audio CD)

After turning rap on it's ear with the iconoclastic "Sex Packets", Shock G. returned to the studio with the Parliament/Funkadelic homage "Sons Of The P". Make no mistake, this is every bit as much a P/Funk album as it is a Digital Underground album, and George Clinton was on hand help make sure that "Sons" was more than the derivative sampling used by most other rappers. Shock's love of P/Funk is evident from start to finish, and makes it clear he's more of a funk gourmand than groupie, and this album is straight P/Funk from start to finish.

The best cuts include the "The DFlo Shuttle" featuring then DU member Tupac Shakur, the hilarious slam of black celebrities getting plastic surgery "No Nose Job", and the jaw dropping "Tales Of The Funky". The top 10 hit "Kiss You Back" is also here, and is even better in the LP form than the single.

It's worth buying this CD to see why Digital Underground is the only rap band to have worked P/Funk samples with the creativity and obvious respect they deserve.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Criminally Underrated, February 19, 2007

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77Jim (Philadelphia PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sons of the P (Audio CD)

This album is great. The opening track, DFLO Shuttle, is prestinely infectious and my personal favorite; it calls for the repeat button and that loopy hook will pin-ball in your head all day urging you to call in sick from work and go to the beach.

The lengthy concluding number "Good Thing We're Rappin'" doesn't do much for me. I find it to be too long and it's lack-luster structure strays from what made DU shine. I get the fact that they are paying homage to their love of music and how it has steered them away from another lifestyle, but in the delivery this becomes a mediocre Ice Cube narrative to my ears. Maybe the group was itching to try the "Too $hort" formula... it's not particularly awful, just sort of boring compared to the dizzying heights the rest of the album already took the listener.

I urge any serious music buff to re-visit the music of Digital Underground. I never fully appreciated their excellence until years later when my developed adult ear was capable of acknowledging just how clever, articulate and ahead of their times this group was. There is a sensitive politically conscious human message here. Shock G's charismatic, passionate delivery allows him to make deep statements without sounding preachy, or abrasive- in fact to the contrary he's selectively hilarious and easy to listen to on the whole.

I have yet to find a modern group this confident, creative and fun. Take the shuttle back to DU's early days... it is quite rewarding.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the pilars of rap, July 15, 2000

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"pepper25" (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sons of the P (Audio CD)

You can almost make a game of picking out Parliment Funkadelic samples. Thats just one thing that makes this album fun. D.U. can flow like most dream to. Dflo Shuttle gets the groove going. Heartbeat Props makes a point that the living need as much respect as those who have passed on. In No Nose Job, Humpty leads the march in a track he made famous by pickiting cosmetic surgery establishments. D.U. keeps it going with Kiss You Back, Tales of the Funky, and a Dflo instrmental. The beats don't stop there, cause you're going to want to listen to it over and over again. No need for metallic frost bite preventiteve blizzard suits or helicopters. Just pure Hip-Hop P-Funk class.