The Hunt For The Gingerbread Man is a concept album

Concept album

In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

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The Gingerbread Man

The Gingerbread Man Thegingerbread Runner is the anthropomorphic protagonist in a fairy tale about a cookie's escape from various pursuers and his eventual demise between the jaws of a fox. The Gingerbread Boy makes his first print appearance in the May 1875 issue of St...

. According to the album, the Gingerbread Man (played by Grimm) escaped from the fox by making him throw up. After that, he stayed on the run as a fugitive.

The Hunt for the Gingerbread Man was due to be released in mid-summer of 2007 but got pushed back to September 25th, 2007. Around the summer, a single from the album called "Earth" was released and on September 18th, 2007, a mixtape called "The Order Of The Baker" was released by Toaster Entertainment to promote the forthcoming album.

Track listing

Produced by Stricknine, except where noted.

1. "Intro"
2. "The Hunt for the Gingerbread Man"
3. "Head in the Clouds"
   • Produced by Metabolis
4. "Gingy"
5. "Half Baked"
   • Produced by Aksim
6. "The Fox"
7. "My House"
8. "Fame"
9. "Earth"
10. "Gangsta Pastries"
    • Produced by Prowla
    • Featuring Chico Stick a.k.a. Infinite EVOL
11. "See No Evil"
12. "Outro"
13. "Head In The Clouds (remix)"
    • Produced by Sammsonite