MC Paul BarmanBest MC Paul Barman Albums Ranked

Echo Chamber

pitchfork

6.0

“On his first album in nearly a decade, the absurdist rapper uses his enormous vocabulary to riff on race, class, and becoming a parent—but he still hasn’t outgrown fart jokes.”

Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud

rollingstone

6.0

“Nearly 20 years after he became a cult favorite, the word nerd is still an entertaining hip-hop oddball”

It's Very Stimulating - EP

pitchfork

5.8

“How could I know then that this would be my most distinct memory of being a young boy in Ridgewood, New Jersey? After all, we were too young to think of memory. Or even of respecting the dead, for that matter. The older kid-- who we deemed "cool" solely because he was older-- came up with the idea. He'd even tied the rope around the neck of the bird, which lay slumped in the wet leaves by the road”

Paullelujah!? Remastered + Bonused

pitchfork

2.0

“"I'm iller than the Iliad/ And show more than Shoah/ While you're so corny you've got a SOH-CAH-TOA/ PEMDAS EFX the number one skirmisher." "I'm advancing the art form/ De-pantsing a fart storm/ Some people don't like thinking/ I guess it's too hard for 'em." A few more pieces of information to give you a pretty clear picture of what *Paullelujah!* is trying to say: The "very goth towel" line a”