Bacon Shoe

nobody@vox.com(W♥M) — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:52:45 -0500

05/11/2008 01:48:18 ♥ written by vu ()

Bacon Shoe

Sounds Like

Finally, at around the same time, MC Frontalot emerged on the scene, and actually gave the genre ...

I love bacon, and I love sneakers.... so by transference, I would also love Bacon Shoe. These two MCs (Lethal D and Mr. Ruggles) and one DJ (DJ SKU), are a comedy hip-hop crew from rap hotbed of Kansas City.

I couldn't find any information on their debut album, Ass, originally released in 1997, but obviously that's a decade (!!) prior to Back from Stinktion (that's extinction for you non-hipsters).

Although there's no pending pressure that they're on tour or are in need of promotion, I was inspired enough after watching their misadventures in SXSW 2006 (their album came with a bonus DVD) to write about it.

It seems to me that they only had a few booked/confirmed shows in Austin, because the time that they weren't booked, they drove to various bars and started playing music and rapping. What's really interesting is that in one of the videos, you can see the slow buildup of passerby people actually stopping and watching them perform.

They're incredibly mobile and, watching their behind-the-scene stuff, they're quite funny.

Bacon Shoe (live at the Record Bar) Jan. 13, 2006

The music portion of the album doesn't quite capture their live energy, it makes it up with various comedy bits. Like on "Toine in the Studio" doing some intentionally horrible unrhyming freestyle or on "A New Discovery Shed" where Lethal accidentally dropped "sometime you gotta bend over and take it up the a** a little bit. Erm, no you don't. I'm sorry, That's not true. I never done that before, so don't think I'm like..."

My favorite song is "Cheesedick", mostly because I think of Aqua Teen Hunger Force whenever I hear it.

Bacon Shoe's Back from Stinktion is a great album to have right next to your MC Frontalot collection. The bonus DVD added a nice value to the album, so get the physical copy from CD Baby.

Links: www.baconshoe.com myspace.com/baconshoe last.fm/music/Bacon+Shoe

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