PROFESSOR GRIFF
And The Word Became Flesh (The Right Stuff/Capitol)
Reviewed by Jason Thornberry

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I hate to just point toward the obvious about this record, but the obvious is so much louder than everything else. Fired by Public Enemy for his moronic, homophobic, and anti-Semitic comments made in an interview, but reinstated for some reason, Professor Griff always seemed about a little less necessary to Public Enemy than, say, Yoko Ono, or a soup sandwich. I have almost everything by PE, but I never grabbed one of their cds from the racks to hear what Professor Griff had to say. You can argue all day about the virtues of Flavor Flav, but he was Public Enemy as much as Terminator X, or Mistachuck (see "Show ‘Em Whatca Got," or "911 Is A Joke" for quick reference)!

And The Word Became Flesh is mostly the sound of one angry man hating and sermonizing. I think he'd be able to put an entire album together about how the pizza not arriving at his house on time last night was a conspiracy! Fun stuff indeed. If you purchase music to feel bad about holding this guy down somehow, then buy two copies of this. My guess is you won't, and he'll get dropped. What a dick.

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