Welcome to Week 3 of our Book (Album) Club! This weeks album is Poverty’s Paradise by Naughty By Nature. Please give the album a fresh listen and give us your thoughts, opinions and possibly hot takes.

Doesn’t matter if this is your 100th time listening to the album or you listen to the album the first time right before posting!


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    1 year ago

    I am currently traveling and will have to update this later to be more thorough. Short version though, this is one of the albums that I used to listen to on repeat when I was in my “old school” phase. I ended up liking Naughty By Nature and 19 Naughty III better as albums, but this was my first Naughty By Nature album so I probably heard it more than those two combined. I mention this because I know I have some bias towards loving this album. That said, probably hadn’t listened to this in 10 years when I checked it out during my drive this weekend to prep for this week. I was pleased with how well it holds up, despite sounding very much of the mid 90s. I don’t know how something can sound so solidly “90s” and still not sound dated in 2023 but I feel that way about this album personally.

    My favorite song is probably Craziest, though my wife hates it with a passion. Second favorite would be Klickow-Klickow. Least favorite song is probably Slang Bang, though I still like it. Something just has to be the worst, even if it is still good overall… Special shout out to the skits on this album. They were pretty standard in this era and I skip them on a lot of albums but not here. Special “why does this exist” to the track Shout Out because it sucks. I listened to this album 3 times this weekend and I didn’t want to skip tracks on principle, but this shit does not need to be here. I don’t call it my least favorite song because it barely qualifies as a song. I specifically remember leaving this track off when I burned myself a CD of this album as a teenager.