Without a doubt, the notty headed fool from the BK known as Buc Wild is funny. Really, really funny. For a years, he terrorized the world with his Reality Check column in The Source. He was brash, he was mean, he was funny. He may have not been the first or only of his kind -- Rap Pages had the Empress' Dis & Dat column and A&B doing similar flavor, the Rap Bandit used to light it up, and this writer serves as the Operative in Damage Control at this very moment -- but he left an impression that's hard to forget.

So the idea that he and his compatriot the Emperor Star would do a comedy album should make eyebrows raise. Unfortunately, it's not funny. Of the seventeen cuts on the album -- mostly skits, with one hot, real song featuring Hek & Lo at the end -- only "Player Hater Hotline (Part 1)," and "Game Show (Can You Recognize)" are really, fall off the couch funny. There are lots of really dry, really boring bits, long stretches between laughs that can go three and four tracks at a time. It's ... disappointing.

There are out and out irritating parts of this album -- the title cut is something to play at Klan rallies, with banjo pluckin' and southern accents referring to catching, lynching, beating and abusing a Black man. Compared to this, Desmond Pfieffer is a stroke of comedic genius. The attempts at singing on "Down Home Blues" and "You Are My Fly Bitch" are too indistinct to catch the listener's ear, which makes the lyrics melt together in a kind of haze. All you're left with is these irritating voices hollering through the void. The pretentious "Revelations" is a self-important manifesto, proclaiming that the world begs for Reality Check. Maybe this stuff is funny after three or four blunts, but to the sober ear there are more laughs in a video of Nagasaki, or getting pulled over by one time.

Through their web site (www.aroundtheway.com), their column, and their general joie de vivre, Star & Buc Wild have brought amusement to many. Hopefully they'll get back to doing that, instead of punishing the world with another CD-for-a-coaster.