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The Jewfro-sporting, New Jersey-raised Mr. Paul Nathaniel Barman (a.k.a. MC Paul Barman) hasn’t laid many of his pervy Ivy League-status rhymes on us since 2002’s Paullelujah! (save for the Twitterverse), produced by the likes of MF Doom and Prince Paul. Some may remember smarmy white boy-drawled gems like “I’m iller than the Iliad and show more than Shoah / while you’re so corny you’ve got to SOHCAHTOA. ” Shoot, he’s probably the only rapper that makes you feel both tongue-tied and vaguely sorry that you fell asleep in high school math class.

Don’t expect to feel any smarter listening to his new record, Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud, which promises “a tempting fall bargain… more knowledge in one song than the next man’s whole album.” MCPB thanks DJ Memory Man on his Twitter for the “years to put together this classic” and names guests such as ?uestlove, Michel Gondry, DOOM, Prince Paul, and Masta Ace. There are a couple of clips up on the site that sound promising… in a snippet from the sarcastic “Props,” he rips into posturing bigots: “Your runnin’ shoes I ain’t never seen runnin’ / You hate fags but you collect shoes like a woman.” Hopefully more info will surface soon, but I’ve got a feeling that the best information is going to come from the source. You can buy the album here in FLAC and MP3 formats.

And as a bonus, check out Barman’s equal parts impassioned and raunchy 2002 anthem against our favorite “music” channel, “Get MTV off the Air Pt. 2″, a duet with the similarly dirty-minded Princess Superstar, who will hopefully take a hint and make a new album too. Ahem.

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