Penicillin on Wax

Penicillin on Wax
Studio album by Tim Dog
Released	November 12, 1991
Genre	East Coast hip hop hardcore rap
Length	1:01:44
Label	Ruffhouse Columbia
Producer	Tim Dog TR Love Ced-Gee Moe Love Bobby Crawford Louis Flores
Tim Dog chronology
Penicillin on Wax (1991) Do or Die (1993)Do or Die1993

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	C+[2]
RapReviews	(7/10)[3]
The Village Voice	[4]

Penicillin on Wax is the debut studio album by American New York-based rapper Tim Dog. This album contained the infamous underground hit "Fuck Compton" which disses the West Coast hip hop.

Background

• The intro used the same beat as N.W.A's "efil4zaggin" album intro. Tim taunted "I stole your beat and made it better, to show the whole world that you ain't nothing but a bunch of pussies" before a number of disparaging answering machine messages supported Tim's position. Tim rapped: "Wearing all that black, driving them cars, but you still look wack!"
• A skit called "DJ Quik Beat Down" was a forty-second audio snippet of Tim Dog physically assaulting DJ Quik.
• The track "Step To Me" taunted Compton rappers and included the line "DJ Quik he can suck my dick".
• "Michel'le Conversation" was a skit where a Michel'le soundalike called Tim Dog to complain about Tim's Compton diss, but then ended up admitting she was "tired of him (Dre) beating down on me" and for Tim to "Call me when you're in town".
• The track "Goin Wild in the Penile" included an intro whereby Tim had recently been released from prison for shooting a "Compton kid".

The lyrical insults were arguably the opening salvo in what would later become the East Coast versus West Coast hip hop conflict which would ultimately lead to the "beef" between Bad Boy Records and Death Row Records.

Track listing

1. "Intro" 2:49
2. "Low Down Nigga" 2:07
3. "Robin Harris Shit (Skit)" 0:17
4. "Fuck Compton" 4:10
5. "DJ Quik Beat Down (Skit)" 0:20
6. "Step To Me" 4:46
7. "Phone Conversation With Reporter (Skit)" 0:23
8. "Bronx Nigga" 4:16
9. "You Ain't Shit" 4:20
10. "I Ain't Takin No Shorts" 3:37
11. "NFL Shit (Skit)" 0:18
12. "Ill Wax Anybody" 5:05
13. "Michel'le Conversation (Skit)" 1:22
14. "Cant Fuck Around" 3:43
15. "Dogs Gonna Getcha" 3:03
16. "Going Wild In The Penile" 4:09
17. "Get Off The Dick" 3:11
18. "I Ain't Havin' It" (Feat. Kool Keith) 3:34
19. "Patriotic Pimp" 3:51
20. "Secret Fantasies" (Feat. Ultramagnetic MCs) 6:21

Samples Used

• "Low Down Nigga"
  • "Funky Drummer" by James Brown
  • "Nautilus" by Bob James
  • "Catch a Groove" by Juice
  • "Let A Woman Be A Woman - Let A Man be A Man" by Dyke and the Blazers
  • "Fly Like an Eagle" by Steve Miller Band
• "Robin Harris Shit"
  • "Proud To Be From Compton?" by Robin Harris
• "Fuck Compton"
  • "Black Grass" by Wilbur "Bad" Bascomb
  • "Love Rap" by Spoonie Gee
  • "UFO" by ESG
  • "Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved" by James Brown
  • "A Chorus Line" by Ultramagnetic MCs
• "Step To Me"
  • "Once In A Lifetime" by Talking Heads
  • "2001" by The Cecil Holmes Soulful Sounds
  • "Black Grass" by Wilbur "Bad" Bascomb
  • "Treat 'Em Right" by Chubb Rock
• "Bronx Nigga"
  • "Across 110th Street" by Bobby Womack and J.J. Johnson
  • "Foxy Lady" by Jimi Hendrix Experience
• "You Ain't Shit"
  • "There Was a Time" by Dee Felice Trio
  • "Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins
  • "Spinning Wheel" by Dr. Lonnie Smith
  • "Pick up the Pieces" by Average White Band
  • "I Can't Stand It '76" by James Brown"
  • "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" by James Brown
• "I Ain't Taking No Shorts"
  • "Future Shock (Dance Your Pants Off)" by Maceo Parker
  • "Synthetic Substitution" by Melvin Bliss
• "I'll Wax Anybody"
  • "Nautilus" by Bob James
  • "It's A New Day" by Skull Snaps
  • "A Chorus Line" by Ultramagnetic MCs
  • "Do the Funky Penguin" by Rufus Thomas
• "Can't Fuck Around"
  • "UFO" by ESG
• "Goin' Wild In The Penile"
  • "Lonesome Cowboy" by Roy Ayers
  • "Funky Drummer" by James Brown
  • "Hydra" by Grover Washington Jr.
  • "Person to Person" by Average White Band
  • "Do the Funky Penguin" by Rufus Thomas
• "Get Off the Dick"
  • "Lansana's Priestess" by Donald Byrd
• "I Ain't Havin' It"
  • "Theme from the Planets" by Dexter Wansel
  • "Don't Change Your Love" by Five Stairsteps
• "Secret Fantasies"
  • "Midnight and You" by Love Unlimited Orchestra

References