I don't agree.” The fuck?), but this wasn't all bad. To answer someone who doesn't think that he is the best rapper, Canibus responds, “That's cool. The beat (credited to two producers, Chips and Slice O Life, who would never be heard from again) is too simple for my tastes, and I wish our host adopted a more aggressive tone (read: I wish he sounded like himself. After a clever hidden shout-out to Ras Kass, Canibus runs down the story of how he was convinced by his then-manager Louie Lombard to record and release C! True Hollywood Stories independently: he even sounds content with the fact that, even with the Wyclef connection, he wasn't meant to sell millions of records. No, that isn't it? This is the most calm that I have ever heard Germaine sound. I suppose it doesn't help that this track sucks balls, too.Īhh, a song discussing the general feeling Canibus fans have when talking about this album. (Although I guess it is plausible that Stan would have never heard the fourth verse, since he was supposed to be dead and all.) Germaine's infatuation with his target is unnerving at best. Seriously, Canibus, why even fucking bother? The placement of this skit so early in the tracklisting does not bode well for my listening pleasure.Ĭanibus gets a bit too obtuse with his Eminem dis track, now taking on the persona of Stan himself, spitting verses as if the fourth verse of “Stan” (the one where Marshall actually responds to Stan's letters with an apology for not getting back to him sooner) never existed. Germaine's ill-advised obsession with Marshall Mathers takes a turn for the bizarre and downright stalker-ish here, as he casts himself in the role of the guy who saved Stan from the car accident that took his life (allegedly) at the end of the third verse on Eminem's “Stan”. As such: Hahfuwn wijdwiw qiqiq dodwdaslnca nd wadjad jd ojfkfpF. I understand that Canibus was going for an E! True Hollywood Stories-type of feel (I naturally assumed that from the album title), but this rap album intro is too corny for a proper write-up. Having finally hit rock bottom, there really isn't anyplace else for Canibus to go, but I'm still not looking forward to listening to this album. The Germaine Williams that hip hop heads fell for (when they tripped over his rhymes) had quickly lost his way, eschewing agressive verbal threats for love songs and an unhealthy obsession with Marshall Mathers (more on this later). Additionally, if you'll go back and re-read the release date of C! True Hollywood Stories, you'll understand why nobody gave a flying fuck about this album back then.Ĭ! True Hollywood Stories has been unanimously named as the man's worst solo effort, which is quite a feat when you consider how fucking disappointing his first two albums were. However, my concern is that Canibus is not actually funny: he was part of the fucking problem back in 2001, not part of the solution. While he has never publicly stated as such, Canibus intended for this album to be satire, his skewed take on what hip hop sounded like in 2001. Newly homeless, he met Louie Lombard and christened him as his new business manager: the first bullet point on the agenda was getting Canibus back into the studio for somebody, anybody, so why not Louie? Lombard's label, Archives Records (yeah, I had never heard of it either, but when I first read about it, I thought it specialized in reissues, not unlike Rhino Records), quickly signed Germaine, and with the help of his friend and promoter Pakman, Canibus set out to work on his third album, C! True Hollywood Stories.Īnd in doing so, Canibus quickly lost all of his fucking fans.Ĭ! True Hollywood Stories, obviously modeled after the popular E! program, is almost magnificent in its commitment to the absolute worst aspects of hip hop. Like most people after suffering a bad breakup, Germaine did some soul-searching and decided that he did, in fact, enjoy rhyming, and therefore, everybody else was at fault in regard to the failure of his career.
It suffered a lack of promotion from the label, low sales, and a general abundance of shitty songs, and this poor business model resulted in Canibus being dropped from his major label hideaway.
(Before Can-I-Bus), on Universal Records. In the year 2000, Germaine Williams, who performs at children's birthday parties as the rapper Canibus, released his sophomore set, 2000 B.C.
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