{"product_id":"dope-or-dog-food","title":"Dope or Dog Food","description":"Quickly establishing themselves as the hardest-working hip-hop collective since the glory days of the Wu-Tang Clan, the Hieroglyphics crew has spun out to include seemingly everyone ever involved with the underground scene in the Bay Area, now including the cracked local legend Z-Man. With a persona that makes Lil Jon look like a paragon of virtue and sobriety (\"Gurp wit Me\" introduces a slang term that's apparently the next step after \"crunk,\" and the apparently autobiographical \"Free Spirited\" sketches a back story that would fill a dozen after-school specials), Z-Man wanders through the album with a blunt in one hand and a bottle of brandy in the other, but among the celebrations of \"White Girls wit Ass\" come several more pointed lyrics, like the dead-serious, angry \"God Was Watchin'\" and the anti-stereotype \"Biggets and Bitches.\" For all the debauched fun of most of the record, it's the mildly anguished self-critical closer, \"Sleepin' Pills,\" and the wry \"Party On\" (for all his habits, turns out Z-Man's a strict vegetarian who promotes safe sex) that ring most true lyrically. Musically, the album doesn't fit in any convenient subgenre boxes, preferring a varied and occasionally experimental sound that recalls the free-ranging early-'90s glory days of A Tribe Called Quest or Digital Underground without sounding like an old-school tribute record. ~ Stewart Mason","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46448419045663,"sku":"655323011129","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/474afc7edd7b453712677918b72f3159.jpg?v=1777922509","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/dope-or-dog-food","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}