Big Pun - Capital Punishment

NEW VINYL LP ON LOUD 2023

2 X 180 GRAM VINYL.

The beats on Capital Punishment, from RZA, Rockwilder, Domingo, and other A-list maestros, are grimy, radio- friendly, yet low-ley cutting-edge, affirming its status as an undisputed classic. Big Pun was as much a visionary — conceptualizing every song — as a consummate pro in the booth. Citing Picasso and Baby Jesus while purporting to “twist your temples into pretzels,” Pun made Minute Rice out of multi-syllables. There’s no way to describe Pun’s febrile liberties with the king’s English. He doesn’t really breathe; when he does, it’s a sharp gasp for air that almost mimics his Ginsu-like wordplay. Pun’s habit of sucking wind before spitting an ill verse mimics the effect of a lit grenade about to land and decimate entire sections of the population. If Pun’s dense rhymes invoke mixed metaphors, that’s likely because he’s an impossible amalgam of wanton wooer and lyrical hitman, an overweight lover with a murderous mouthpiece.

Tracklist

A1. Intro
A2. Beware
A3. Super Lyrical – feat. Black Thought of The Roots
A4. Taster’s Choice
A5. Still Not A Player – feat. Joe
A6. Intermission
A7. The Dream Shatterer

B1. Punish Me – feat. Miss Jones
B2. Pakinamac Pt. I
B3. You Ain’t A Killer
B4. Pakinamac Pt. II
B5. Caribbean Connection – feat. Wylcef Jean
B6. Glamourlife – feat. Fat Joe, Triple Seis, Armageddon, & Cuban Link

C1. Capital Punishment – feat. Prospect
C2. Uncensored – feat. Funkmaster Flex
C3. I’m Not A Player
C4. Twinz (Deep Cover 98) – feat. Fat Joe
C5. The Rain & The Sun – feat. Dead Prez & Prospect
C6. Boomerang

D1. You Came Up – feat. Noreaga
D2. Tres Leches (Triboro Trilogy) – feat. Prodigy & Inspectah Deck
D3. Charlie Rock Shout
D4. Fast Money
D5. Parental Discretion – feat. Busta Rhymes