Psychoanalysis (What Is It?)

Spin (1/98, pp.116-117) - 8 (out of 10) - "A Monty Python-like collection of twisted satire and bent skits that gleefully dissects the sorry state of current B-boy culture....For what is essentially a `comedy' album, PSYCHOANALYSIS gives hip-hop fans a thorough working over..." Entertainment Weekly (10/31/97, p.108) - "...Flitting across dance-music styles with giddy abandon, Paul crafts bumptious Technicolor jams..." - Rating: B+ CMJ (11/24/97, p.3) - "...Paul's at the vanguard of today's experimental hip-hop resurgence, so listen up." JazzTimes (2/97, p.86) - "...explores the bizarro outer limits of the B-Boy mindset....a prime candidate for repeat play." The Source (9/96, p.156) - "...Prince Paul psychoanalyzes our taut aural horizons and points where we would have been six years ago had fistfuls of dollars not been waved under the noses of musical idiot-savants." Option (11-12/96, p.123) - "...the genius of this record is its ability to mock everything, yet still make you wonder if you really should be laughing....it's hard to say just what the hell this is--hip-hop or comedy....you won't likely find another album this weirdly idiosyncratic..."