First, I want to get you properly lubricious. Watch this video of “The New Science” from Timbuktu‘s extravagant solo debut, Stranger Danger.

Did that wet you up a little? If yes, how would you like to preview the whole album for free at Bandcamp? Click the cover below to go and do that, or just download the whole thing for super cheap!

Tim has been working on this album for some time, scrapping and reworking songs that were already better than anything most suckers have ever come up with. What we are left with is hard like packed-down dirt, a taut and densely-tamped record of fifteen baby-shaking monuments to rap excellence from a man who wrestles against his own innate sense of decency every day…

…and wins.

You’ve heard Tim all over Toolshed records, and other Backburner releases. You’ve caught him stealing the show with a guest spot, or feeling your bro when it gets hot. You’ve mused to yourself, “Who is that masked man?” and “Why does he mask his face but not his penis?” and “Oh because of the moustache,” but not “I hope he stops rapping some time soon.”

Now and forever, Stranger Danger can perform as your entry point to understanding – Tim breaks down “The New Science” with Jorun Bombay, he breaks down the importance of eating like you own the place on “Grown Man’s Dinner,” he breaks down why he doesn’t rap for free on “Lead By Example,” and he even breaks down and apologizes on “Sorry About Last Night.” Most importantly, his paralyzing wit and unnerving gaze will break down your defenses until you are hopelessly out of depth and just want to go home… but can’t.

Ever again.

The guest roster is magnanimous. I know that sounds like I just used a big word wrong, but I didn’t – fuck you. What I mean is that Tim has generously assembled a tasteful sampler of talented bromeos to lace your mouth with man-sauce oh jesus what did I just say. Backburner is of course most decisively in the building, and D-Sisive is most… backburnably… yeah he’s on a couple tracks. El Da Sensei, formerly of The Artifacts, turns in a powerful set of back-and-forths with the mandandler himself.

Look, I’m not going to write a list out for you – that’s the label’s job. Go and look at the Urbnet website for the album if you want to know who you’re excited about! That is also where you can order physical copies, or the limited edition Timbuktu man-sized body pillow (patent pending).

Alright, I’ve done my damnedest. It’s in God’s hands now.

And God’s hands are in your pants so LOOK OUT.

For this week’s (okay, last week’s – this is the internet) offering, I have for you an unreleased gem from Toolshed. It’s called Cult Classic Hits (left-click the song name to listen, right-click to download) and it’s produced by Timbuktu, who also rhymes on it along with Choke. Psybo’s voice is absent from this number, which means that a few years ago we would have said it was by Sequestrians (which is what Timbuktu and Choke temporarily went by during his previous absence), but don’t worry – he’ll be turning up soon, and with a vengeance.

For now, check this smooth and slamming paean to underground origins.

On another note… this Saturday night, I had the pleasure of seeing Timbuktu, Ghettosocks and Fresh Kils share the stage with one of your all-time true school legends, El Da Sensei (late of New Jersey’s The Artifacts). Despite a few running time issues and a competing show by The Clipse across town, the show went off like a dream. Watching my friends tear a stage up under the approving stewardship of one of the architects of the way we do things to this day? It’s my biggest vicarious thrill of 2009… so far.

And although I wasn’t a performer that night, did I get a chance at the end of the night to elicit props from the god with my secret light speed flows? Let’s just say the answer isn’t “no.”