Handsome Boy Modeling School — White People

Handsome Boy Modeling School

White People

Released
2021
Format
Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue
Label
Tommy Boy · TB-5174-1
Hip Hop ConsciousJazzy Hip-Hop
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RZA, Cat Power, Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, Chester Bennington, El-P, Pharrell, John Oates, Cedric Bixler-Zavala of the Mars Volta, Mike Patton. That’s Paul’s brain in album form. White People (2004) is the Handsome Boy project at full sprawl — the same conceit as So… How’s Your Girl?, applied to a guest list that spans every register of rock, hip-hop, and art-pop simultaneously.

RZA’s appearance specifically closes the loop that Prince Paul opened in 1994 when he and RZA formed Gravediggaz together — the horrorcore supergroup that connected Stetsasonic’s lineage to Wu-Tang’s, briefly, before each went back to their separate projects. Paul and RZA on the same record again is the supergroup reunion that no one quite noticed as such.