Dr. No's Ethiopium is the fourth album by hip hop

Hip hop

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 rapper and producer Oh No

Oh No (rapper)

Oh No is an underground hip hop artist from Oxnard, California who has released several albums on Stones Throw Records.-Biography:...

. The solely instrumental

Instrumental

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 album was released by Stones Throw Records

Stones Throw Records

Stones Throw Records is an independent hip hop record label based in Los Angeles, California. It was started in 1996 by DJ/Producer Peanut Butter Wolf in part to release the music he made with Charizma who was killed at the age of 20....

 in 2009, and is described as an "album inspired-by and sampled-from rare 60s and 70s Ethiopian funk, jazz, folk, soul and psychedelic rock." The track "The Funk" was used in a Mountain Dew

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 commercial. According to an article in the LA Times, that TV placement "beat CD sales 10 to 1 in terms of profit".

Track listing

1. "Pardon Me"
2. "Madness"
3. "The Funk"
4. "Concentrate"
5. "Xcalibur"(samples "Asheweyna" by Mahmoud Ahmed
   Mahmoud Ahmed
   Mahmoud Ahmed is an Ethiopian singer of Gurage ancestry.-Biography:Born in Addis Ababa, Mahmoud shined shoes in that city before becoming a handyman at the Arizona Club, where he first sang professionally in the early 1960s...
   
   )
6. "Pussy"
7. "Adventure"
8. "Soul Of Ethiopia"
9. "Dare Say"
10. "World Traveler"
11. "Scary"
12. "Carnival"
13. "Louder"
14. "Electronic Monsters"
15. "Problematic"
16. "Fuego Tribe"
17. "Mindnight Missions"
18. "Melody Mix"
19. "Drive By"
20. "Juke Joint"(samples "Gubelye" by Mulatu Astatque)
21. "Loopadors"
22. "Laxatives"
23. "Raw Block"
24. "Sneaky"
25. "A Hundred"
26. "Ox Therapy"
27. "Butta"
28. "All My"
29. "Fresh Bacon"
30. "Crazzzzy"
31. "Funeral Parlor"
32. "Strong"
33. "Questions"
34. "The Pain"
35. "Great Oracle"(samples Yegelle Tezeta by Mulatu Astatke
    Mulatu Astatke
    Mulatu Astatke is an Ethiopian musician and arranger best known as the father of Ethio-jazz....
    
    )
36. "Whoo Doo"

• All tracks written by Oh No.

External links

• Oh No on Stones Throw
• Oh No on MySpace
• Stones Throw Records