Vagina Diner Explained

Vagina Diner
Type:studio
Artist:Akinyele
Cover:Vagina Diner.jpg
Released:1993
Studio:Power Play Studios, New York City, New York
Genre:Hip hop, dirty rap
Label:Interscope/Atlantic
Producer:Large Professor
Next Title:Put It in Your Mouth
Next Year:1996

Vagina Diner is the debut studio album by the American rapper Akinyele, released on Interscope Records in 1993.[1] [2] The album's single was "Ak Ha Ha! Ak Hoo Hoo?"[3] The album did not receive much promotional backing from Interscope, but did manage to become a hit on college radio.[4]

Critical reception

In a retrospective review, Spin wrote that Akinyele is "a gritty, X-rated joker with a uniquely bipolar flow—his set-ups are nimble wordplay, his punchlines are delivered in a low Oscar the Grouch croak."[5]

Track listing

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Akinyele | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  2. Book: Bynoe . Yvonne . Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip-Hop Culture . 2006 . Greenwood Press . 6.
  3. Popular Uprisings . Billboard . Sep 4, 1993 . 105 . 36 . 20.
  4. Book: Brennan . Timothy . Secular Devotion : Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz . 2008 . Verso . 140.
  5. Web site: 'Til Infinity: The 50 Best Rap Albums From 1993, Hip-Hop's Other Greatest Year . Spin . 20 June 2021.
  6. Akinyele - Chart history - Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Billboard. July 9, 2017.