Dirt Nasty (album)
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Dirt Nasty is the self-titled debut album by artist Dirt Nasty, also known as Simon Rex
Simon Rex
Simon Rex is an American actor, comedian, television host and recording artist. He is known for starring as Jeff Campbell in What I Like About You, during the first season.-Early life:...

. Dirt Nasty was released by Shoot To Kill Music in association with Myspace Records
MySpace Records
Myspace Records is a record label founded in 2005 to sign artists who appear on the social networking site MySpace. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of MySpace and parent News Corporation, operating as a joint-venture between MySpace and Interscope Records...

. The album's most popular track was "1980," which was distributed on MySpace and iTunes. Dirt Nasty is credited as the impetus behind Mickey Avalon
Mickey Avalon
Mickey Avalon is an American rapper from Hollywood, California. His debut self-titled solo album was released Nov. 7, 2006 on Interscope/Shoot to Kill Records in association with MySpace Records...

's personal rediscovery of, and subsequent success in, hip hop
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...

. Mickey Avalon
Mickey Avalon
Mickey Avalon is an American rapper from Hollywood, California. His debut self-titled solo album was released Nov. 7, 2006 on Interscope/Shoot to Kill Records in association with MySpace Records...

's song "My Dick" (featuring Dirt Nasty and Andre Legacy) was featured in the 2008 movie Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.

The song "1980" starts off with the phrase "What happened to your queer party friends?" This quote is said by Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is an American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for an Academy Award twelve times, and has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice: for One Flew Over the...

 in the film As Good as It Gets
As Good as It Gets
As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by James L. Brooks and produced by Laura Ziskin. It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic, obsessive-compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as a single mother with an asthmatic son, and Greg Kinnear as a gay artist. The screenplay was...

which was released in 1997.

Track listing

  1. "Droppin' Names" - 3:35
  2. "Can't Get Down" - 3:28
  3. "1980" - 3:06
  4. "Cracker Ass Fantastic" - 3:27
  5. "Too Sexy (ft. Mickey Avalon)" - 3:16
  6. "Baby Dick" - 2:48
  7. "Gotta Leave This Town" - 2:58
  8. "Animal Lover" - 2:53
  9. "Too Short Homage" - 3:38
  10. "Wanna Get High (ft. Andre Legacy)" - 3:47
  11. "True Hollywood Story" - 3:42
  12. "Mountain Man (ft. Tony Potato)" - 3:31

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