Temporary Forever is an abstract rap album by hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 artist Busdriver

Busdriver

Busdriver is a rapper from Los Angeles currently signed to Epitaph Records and Fake Four Inc-History:...

. It was released in 2002 on the Temporary Whatever label.

Album information

The album features the fast paced, humorous, surreal and non-sequitur lyrics of Busdriver with guest appearances by Aceyalone

Aceyalone

Eddie Hayes, better known by his stage name Aceyalone, is an American rapper.He is a founding member of the Freestyle Fellowship. Apart from his role in Freestyle Fellowship, Aceyalone is also a member of Haiku D'Etat and The A-Team , and he is a co-founder of Project Blowed.After releasing a...

, 2mex, Xololanxinxo, Radioinactive

Radioinactive

Radioinactive is an underground hip hop artist from Los Angeles. He has released a number of solo albums, as well as collaborating with artists such as Busdriver, Daedelus and Antimc. He is currently signed to Stranger Touch Records, from which Soundtrack to a Book was released in 2006...

 and Rhetoric

Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the facility of speakers or writers who attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations. As a subject of formal study and a productive civic practice, rhetoric has played a central role in the Western...

. Most of the tracks were recorded and mixed by Daddy Kev

Daddy Kev

Daddy Kev is a prolific underground hip-hop and electronic music producer, recording engineer and record label owner. Pitchfork describes him as "one of the Los Angeles underground's most visionary producers.....

, who along with Busdriver, was also the album's executive producer

Executive producer

An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...

. All scratching on the album was done by D-Styles.

The tracks New Aquarium and Wrong Route do not contain Busdriver lyrics at all, instead being sampled dialogue on top of beats. New Aquarium contains a montage conversation sampled from the 1980s cult film Repo Man, while Wrong Route contains an apparent news report on an incident of a bus driver kidnapping a bus-load of school children.

The song Stylin' Under Pressure is a freestyle

Freestyle rap

Freestyle rap commonly refers to rap lyrics which are improvised through a acapella or with instrumental beats, i.e. performed with no previously composed lyrics, or "off the top of the head"...

 done spontaneously at a fast food restaurant. The song Imaginary Places is based on an excerpt from Bach's Suite for Orchestra No. 2 in B Minor and from Paganini's 24 Capricci Per Violino Solo Op. 1, No. 5 Agitato in A Minor. Imaginary Places was featured in the video game Tony Hawk's Underground

Tony Hawk's Underground

Tony Hawk's Underground, abbreviated to THUG, is a skateboarding video game, available for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and Xbox platforms released in 2003. A PC version was released exclusively in Australia as a budget release in 2005. This version was ported by Beenox. In 2004,...

. At the end of Post Apocalyptic Rap Blues there is an alternate take of the song Stylin' Under Pressure.

Reception

Vibe (p. 75) - "[H]is adenoidal flow, a breathless bundle of consonants and exclamation points, will challenge anyone looking to tune the MC out."

Track listing