I’m sure you’re reading the Mystidious Misfitts - A Who Dat? title and probably wondering “A Who Dat?” as to who I’m even writing about. The Misfitts who started out as video back-up dancers, put out only one album… one album that didn’t really stray much from your typical mid-90′ formula that saw them borrowing a little Boot Camp Clik here, a little Native Tongues there, mix with some D.I.T.C. and sprinkle some C.M. Crew and Original Flavor for good measure. No offense to the Misfitts, but it’s kind of easy to see why they were so forgotten in the mix of better albums from the same artists they were trying to emulate. But however blasé A Who Dat? came across in 1995, 13 years later it’s actually downright refreshing!

Like a lot of people my favorite era of Hip Hop was 1991-1996, and If you’re like me you’ve spun the majority of those classic, well known, sort of known & cult following 90s albums to death! So what do you do when you’re not sick of a sound but just sick of your collection? You go digging for the obscure of that era… which is exactly where you’ll find the Misfitts. Like I said back in 1995 when put against Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, The Infamous, Liquid Swords & Do You Want More?!!!??!, A Who Dat can barely tread water. But in the here and now of 2008 nothing sounds more fresh and welcome to my ears than some good 90s era Hip Hop I haven’t heard spun to death by every DJ on the planet.

I Be, Trix of a Misfit, Upside Down (Digga Mix) & M.I. Crooked Letter along with a Buckwild remix of I Be are the clear cut stand outs. But that isn’t all the album has to offer because it holds it’s own in setting the mood and capturing the era in terms of production & flow. It’s biggest problem really is that it’s bogged down by too many interludes (8 to be exact), most of which clock in well over a minute and really drag down the tempo of the album as a whole. Regardless though… those of you hankering for a new 90s Hip Hop sound fix, check this out now and thank me later.

Mystidious Missfitts - A Who Dat?

P.S. Sorry for the image from the Upside Down 12″. I’m in Asia on a layover and unable to scan in my CDs cover and that was the best image I could find online!