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April 10, 2008 8:03 AM Subscribe
Baby Loves Hip-Hop? Kids albums are designed to amuse wee tots at the expense of parental sanity, right? Maybe not. What if you asked one of rap's finest producers to form a supergroup of some of the brightest names in the genre, all to create an album to introduce little minds to the world of hip-hop? You'd end up with Dino 5, a dinosaur-themed collection of tracks featuring Scratch (from The Roots), Ladybug (from Digable Planets), Wordsworth (from eMC) and Chali 2na (of Jurassic 5), all under the direction of the one and only Prince Paul. (Props to Ivan at Hip-Hop Is Read)
Has to be better than the rap about toilet paper on the "Elmo's Potty Time" DVD my kid watches. Even by the standards of rap music, it's dreadful.
posted by inthe80s at 8:15 AM on April 10, 2008
posted by inthe80s at 8:15 AM on April 10, 2008
That's great... talented people doing kid-oriented raps, it's a first.
Eight - I would love a play date... classic.
posted by Huck500 at 8:26 AM on April 10, 2008 [1 favorite]
Eight - I would love a play date... classic.
posted by Huck500 at 8:26 AM on April 10, 2008 [1 favorite]
Considering how often kids will listen to an album, this will still crush a parent's sanity. The fact that it's well produced childiren's hip-hop does not save it; it's still kiddy music.
posted by oddman at 8:43 AM on April 10, 2008
posted by oddman at 8:43 AM on April 10, 2008
If you want well-produced and kid's, but not hip-hop, check out Here Come the ABCs by They Might Be Giants. (They have No and Here Come the 123s as well, but I'm less familiar with those.) The videos are great as well.
posted by DU at 8:45 AM on April 10, 2008
posted by DU at 8:45 AM on April 10, 2008
this is what i'm talking bout. Wordsworth is billy brontosaurus and his favorite color is green and his favorite number is 3.
if i had a rapping dinosaur like that to listen to when i was a kid that would have been the bomb.
posted by flyinghamster at 8:51 AM on April 10, 2008
if i had a rapping dinosaur like that to listen to when i was a kid that would have been the bomb.
posted by flyinghamster at 8:51 AM on April 10, 2008
Baby Loves Death Metal
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 9:30 AM on April 10, 2008
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 9:30 AM on April 10, 2008
www.babyloveshiphop.com
What's a Baby Love Ship, and why on earth would I want to hop on it?
posted by spiderskull at 9:55 AM on April 10, 2008
What's a Baby Love Ship, and why on earth would I want to hop on it?
posted by spiderskull at 9:55 AM on April 10, 2008
Kids albums are designed to amuse wee tots at the expense of parental sanity, right?
Only when it's done badly (says this sometimes-children's-music-musician.) Having said that, I'm looking forward to playing this for my kids as soon as I get home tonight, because they've already heard every one of these artists at home since before they were born.
posted by davejay at 11:41 AM on April 10, 2008
Only when it's done badly (says this sometimes-children's-music-musician.) Having said that, I'm looking forward to playing this for my kids as soon as I get home tonight, because they've already heard every one of these artists at home since before they were born.
posted by davejay at 11:41 AM on April 10, 2008
If you want well-produced and kid's, but not hip-hop, check out Here Come the ABCs by They Might Be Giants.
I hate to say this, but I actually found that album to be mostly meh; I think their adult music is, by and large, much more entertaining for kids than their children's music (and based on their responses to both, my children agree.)
posted by davejay at 11:42 AM on April 10, 2008
I hate to say this, but I actually found that album to be mostly meh; I think their adult music is, by and large, much more entertaining for kids than their children's music (and based on their responses to both, my children agree.)
posted by davejay at 11:42 AM on April 10, 2008
My dino-loving three-year-old quite likes this (though his main obsession now, with all CDs, is to dance around with the CD case and look at the track numbers, then announce which number each track is: "THIS IS SONG NUMBER FIVE!") There's an earlier CD in this series called "Baby Loves Jazz," featuring Sharon Jones and friends doing jazzy versions of things like "The Wheels on the Bus" and "Ten Little Monkeys." It's actually quite listenable -- because, as a parent, you DO hear your kids' favorite albums eleventy million times in a row. Better this than Barney.
posted by lisa g at 1:20 PM on April 10, 2008
posted by lisa g at 1:20 PM on April 10, 2008
lisa g: I'm glad that there has been a surge in recent years of kid's music with musical merit - by which I mean that an adult can stand them. I've been listening to the Animaniacs compilation a lot lately.
posted by LSK at 4:53 PM on April 10, 2008
posted by LSK at 4:53 PM on April 10, 2008
Ladybug is still cool like dat!
posted by cazoo at 5:48 PM on April 10, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by cazoo at 5:48 PM on April 10, 2008 [1 favorite]
This kid is unreal. If all baby get into hip-hop, we will be overtaken by a siege of agile hip-hop ninjas.
posted by lukeklein at 5:07 PM on April 14, 2008
posted by lukeklein at 5:07 PM on April 14, 2008
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