Digital Underground - "Who Got the Gravy?"

"The question to ask when you listen to this, the fifth LP from California's Hip-Hop incarnation of Parliament/Funkadelic, digital underground, is "Could this be their best album yet or at least one of those unforgettable joints?" Yes, they're back and they're cooking up a menu that's tough to beat. The P-Funk vibe remains the same, but, of course, this is 1998, and a couple of things have to change a little bit, but it's only a couple of things. The label has changed, for one, to the new Interscope-distributed Jake Records label (in which this album, Who Got The Gravy? Is the second album release and in which the owners are named Gary, John, Gary, and John [Scary, ain't it?]). The trademark artists, however, that you've always known--Shock-G, Humpty-Hump, and Money-B--are still there, and plus there's a new "member" of sorts: their "attorney" Peanut Hakeem Anafu Washington (which is actually Shock-G on the alter-ego tip). And when this group named itself digital underground, they were not kidding, as you can see in their many rosters of special guest underground, unsigned, and damn-near-unheard-of artists. You have to give it up for that.