The ever-elusive Smelly Fatso label returns to drop SF-005 (which happens to be #6 in the series of Rub remix EPs) and it's another good'un. DJ Ayres leads off the procession with the first Bmore heat he's committed to record, "Broke Ass Home(1)," which fuses a Luda verse with a cookie-cutter Baltimore break. Cosmo Baker shows folks why he gets to have t-shirts with his face and the words "GET ON MY LEVEL" printed, as he unleashes the monstrous "Papa Applause Remix(2)," which, as you may or may not have pieced together, is the Temptation's classic "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" placed over the Applause riddim (best known as the beat to Sean Paul's "Temperature"). Nick Catchdubs gets the Bangles and Too $hort in a tussle with "Burn Egyptian Rubber(3)" and A-Trak rounds out the A-side with a reworking of Three 6's classic "Sippin' On Da Syrup(4)." Paul Nice kicks off the B-side with an all-new, smooth-as-hell remix of De La Soul & Common's "The Bizness(5)." DJ Eleven throws M.O.P.'s "Ante Up" over a Queen joint(6) and Omega One rounds the whole shebang out real nice with a blend of Ghostface's "Good Times" and Toto's "Africa(7)." (Extra points on that one because rhyming over a Toto song is something Ghost would actually do.) All this AND you get the BPM info on the label. The Rub familia does it again!

reviewed by Chris Lemon-Red