Canibus "Rip the Jacker" (Vinyl 2XLP)

  Artist: Canibus Release Date: 7/22/2003 Label: Babygrande Records Producers: Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (of Jedi Mind Tricks) Other Formats: Audio CD, iTunes After producer Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (of the group Jedi Mind Tricks) produced the track "Liberal Arts" from Canibus' fourth album MiClub: The Curriculum (2002), Babygrande Records CEO Chuck Wilson raised the possibility of Stoupe producing an entire album for Canibus. Before enlisting in the U.S. Army, Canibus recorded his vocals before any production and then sent the acappellas to Stoupe.  Canibus claimed that he wrote the lyrics on a "stained dinner table in Hell's Kitchen".  In 2003, he stated that the album consisted of his most complex rhymes to date and it "describes our civilization through the eyes of a modern day lyricist/poet". Although he released future albums, Rip the Jacker was intended to be his last.  As a concept album, the record represents the third "personality" of the rapper: "P