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The world knows Tom Green for his comedic abilities and now Green is setting out to prove that he also has skills with a microphone with a new untitled rap album.

Green was a founding member of Canadian rap group Organized Rhyme and dropped an album with the group titled Stiffenin Against The Wall in 1992.

The album produced “Check The O.R.," which earned the group a Juno nomination.

"It is time for me as an artist, and a human being, to dig deep down into my soul and be completely honest," Green reflected. "For the past several years I have grappled with a hidden truth. Now, it is finally my time to be honest. It is time for me to be honest with the public, with my friends, with my family, and most importantly, with myself. I am a rapper."

In previous interviews, Green stated that he started rhyming in high school. That soon progressed into production.

"I actually got into, like, making beats and stuff," Green explained to Canadian magazine Chart Attack in a 1999 interview. "Summer jobs I’d, like, save up and buy a keyboard and a sampler. It became this great outlet for doing wacky, wacked-out sh*t on stage. I was doing stand-up at the time too, but this was another outlet, where I could go up and rap, and I’d do it on a fairly regular basis, opening for punk bands around Ottawa. We’d go down, and go on before them, chucking bread into the audience, and throwing weird sh*t around. It was all sort of for fun, and then we kinda got alright at doing it. So we came down here to New York City for a couple of months when I was 17, and worked with a producer down here. Then it sort of became kind of serious, and we got a record deal. It started as a fun thing, but it actually wasn’t that fun anymore by the time it got to the record deal stage."

Green's new album will drop on Sony BMG Music Canada and will be produced entirely by Mike Simpson of the Dust Brothers. Simpson has also produced tracks for The Beastie Boys, Biz Markie and others.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

PLEASE LET MARTIN STEIN REVIEW THIS FOR THE LAS VEGAS WEEKLY

The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahahah

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

CHECK THE OR YOU LIKE IT SO FAR CHECK THE OR YOU LOVE THE OR

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

ahem, sorry. just had to get that out of my system.

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"This might be something you don't know about. But I do. You don't appreciate the references I could give your way, but here they are. Freddy Got Fingered and now you are too. And unlike that poseur Maya Agaereqwtgrgaeraum or whatever her name is, Tom Green feels the passion from the streets, and he's absotively no cheapskate, I can tell you that."

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

you see, we canadians have known this sad truth for almost 10 years...

http://jane-finch.com/files/organizedrhyme/or3_small.jpg

ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://jane-finch.com/files/organizedrhyme/or3_small.jpg

ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

actually make that more than 10 years

ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the guys who worked at my record store back when the Organized Rhyme album came out special-ordered it in, thinking it was the other, BETTER Organized Rhyme, and he was absolutely heartbroken when it showed up and there were these two losers on the cover, and he realized he had just wasted $20.

I'm not sure how he feels about it know, knowing who one of those losers were, but I'm sure he sold the album almost immediately afterwards. (Actually, come to think of it, maybe he stiffed us on it and never bought it.)

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Love that url almost as much as I love that song. I mean they were supposed to be dropping a demo on The Dream Warriors for crying out loud.

Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

This is being produced by a Dust Brother? Oh my.

Simon H. (Simon H.), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The Dust Brothers have worked with novelty acts before; remember "Mmmbop"?

The Ghost of Running Very Quickly Away From The Aftermath (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

or "anybody seen my baby"?

j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Re: Dust Brothers' novelties - Uh, anyone remember a artist named Young MC?

Re: MC Tom Green - Then again, I actually liked Brian Green's album (yeah, the 90210 guy).

PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Young MC wasn't really a novelty artist - i mean, he was responsible for some of Tone Loc's best material... not that that's particularly noteworthy, but at least he was in the game

chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

True, and trying to be brief, I overreached...but my point is, if Young MC was ever/is still considered to be a watered down Hip-Hop artist/one hit ownder/whatever, The Dust Brothers prodcued some of his early stuff long before the worked with Hanson, much less earned our praise via Paul's Boutique.

We shouldn't hold Dust Brothers in our local trophy case. They are producers. This is the point.

Personally, I wonder if Tom Green is attempting some Andy Kaufman type humore with this, which I can't say will achieve a previously set bar of success...although, many feel Tom Green is funny.

PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

And if it's not *meant* to be a joke:

David Hasslehoff and Ice-T working on album together

PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I have Tom Green's MC FACE (his alter ego) disc. It's unlistenable.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Club/5880/mcface.gif

This one, I mean.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i wanna hear mc face! and the old tom green album! and the new one!

scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

trust me, Scott, you're not missing anything. There was a brief, arrow-slit-sized window of time when I thought Tom Green was genuinely funny, so I somehow tracked down a copy of the disc. In retrospect, it was a foolish idea. Send me your mailing info, I can rip it to CD-R for you (or, hell, give ya the damn thing).

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

That one is truely terrible. The OR one also has 'armadillo' which isn't horrible.

Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Monday, 9 May 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)


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