Hip Hop Skits on Albums: Classic or Dud?

Eleborate sketches: boring. "Yo, yo give me drugs. What nigga? Yo heard me fool! [plop! plop! ratatatat!] You dead motherfucker". Yawn.

That said I like all the intro's on Snoop's first album.

The tenth time you hear the album: Dud. After you have built your internal roadmap for which songs come where and what they're all about, after the jokes on the skits have worn thin, they're redundant and boring and you wind up impatiently hitting the skip button.

Radiohead and MSP should do skits - can you imagine ? - YES to skits ALL BANDS SHOULD DO SKITS - ITS A FUCKIN' ARTFORM - WHY WASTE CD SPACE

Old Fart!!!!

There's this glam-metal album that I listen to sometimes, that has lots of those annoying skits on it. Like, one is about a tribute to Ronald Reagan being broadcasted on GOP-TV, and then there's some guy talking about how he wants to live his life over again, and an anorexic girl saying how she eats too much to die, and some kind of '40s-war-film narration with clanking noises, and more.

Practically every song starts off with a little skit, now that I think on it. They just ruin the album, don't they? ;)

Don't try to be funny when I agree that those spoken intros need to be removed, Mr. White ;)

Fitter Happier

OK, so rather than derail the MIA thread with further skit talk, I'm taking my obsession here. They're at once the most skippable bit of any hip hop record and the heart of it. When I first started getting into hop, I liked that they were so impenetrably in-jokey and stupid, aimed at one particular slice of their audience, or perhaps just each other. The cliquiness added to the intrigue.

Has anyone ever written an article on the history of skits? I know they officially started with 3 Feet High and Rising but I guess the genealogy goes back to the police bust at the end of The Message, the middle section of Living for the City, comedians like Redd Foxx, etc. Also, what are the most overused ingredients? I'll start with these:

1. Gunshots
2. Children swearing
3. Someone doing a prissy white person voice

S: Skits on Capital Punishment
D: Skits on Fishscale (and maybe Ghostface skits in general)

Overused element:
4. Crackhead

this list is alright, although some of the picks really annoy me (too much Kanye, the wrong Big Pun skit, not enough De La): http://www.vibe.com/content/oh-skit-hip-hops-25-funniest-interludes-all-time

5. Voicemail messages

6. Shady music business man speaks.
7. Someone (a DJ, a man on street, etc) dissing the artist whose album this is, often followed by someone else defending the artist/getting into fight with the disser.

8. Rapper's girlfriend/wife accuses him of being a lazy bum/dopehead/all hot air/etc.

9. Sounds of sex
10. Inhalation of smoke
11. (extension of #5) Talking to someone in prison, who sometimes raps
12. Parent speaks (often an overlap w/ #4)

13. Throaty chuckling from artist and/or his affiliates.

14. Asshole cop

15. sounds of botched abortions or whatever's happening on "toilet tisha"

i'm not a fan of skits overall, but on gil scott heron's latest (not sure you can call that record hip hop, but hear me out) there are these snippets of conversations that i actually really like. they're taken from an interview or something. they're brief, which is really key, and they also break up the record, but i think what i really like about them as opposed to the usual kind of skits is that they sound candid. when i'm listening to a record, and i get really into the music, i'm not thinking about how long it took them to record the song, how many takes the vocals needed, or any of that (i usually reserve that for afterwards), but when you hear a skit, they sound so rehearsed and canned that it really takes away from the immediacy of the record and how immersed i can be in the songs.

people taking a shit is the biggest plague skits ever had on otherwise perfect albums. its for this reason that fanmail >>>>> crazysexycool.

skits are evil. fuck 'em. fuck 'em all. fuck even funky uncles and the bits on enter the wu and operation doomsday. none of them are worth it. oh, so you've got [mildly funny black american comedian of that year] talking on your record? is this because your rhymes aren't funny enough in the first place?

oh that pass me a tissue/SO I CAN WIPE MY ASS!!! on crazysexycool never failed to embarass me :( /uptight

You people are crazy, the Crazysexycool shit skit is one of the best/funniest skits of all time!

I remember when I first heard it, I was listening to the album on headphones, and broke into laughter in the middle of a train station. I thought it was so cool that TLC did both romantic ballads and a gag like that on the same album!

No I already told you on the other thread-Ho Remover off their first album is a classic!

16. Your enemies, outwitting and possibly murdering them.

skip skits always

unless they're sort of song sketches like on 'stankonia' or w/e -- otherwise i have moves to make & no time for skits

actually luda has some funny skits/interludes on his albums but i feel like maybe that's a byproduct of his radio dj days??

Something between skit and song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXEXA3uJHKI