There is no other time than the early ’90s that Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde could have existed. It’s like the Slanted and Enchanted of the hip hop world: a shambling, gorgeous piece of work that manages to show moments of great brilliance with a complete lack of pretense. Songs fall apart on themselves, the drums and piano lack any sort of rhythm, and were it not for all of the members incredible slacker-ish rapping skills, the thing would have been quite a different record. No matter though, they had apathy calculated completely, and managed to point a happy middle finger to everyone around them by creating easily one of the best hip hop records of that decade.

Maybe it is the sunshine peeking through the skies right now, but Bizarre Ride hasn’t sounded this good to me in a long time. So good, in fact, that I went searching YouTube for some videos, and damn if I didn’t come up a gem.

At first, this video for “It’s Jigaboo Time”, a skit from the record that really only makes sense plopped in between “Oh Shit!” and “4 Better or 4 Worse”, seems to be some sort of messed up fan video. It’s not until about thirteen seconds in where things get really crazy and you realize, no, this is not a fan video. Those dudes actually made a video. For a skit. Damn if it doesn’t fit their vibe completely, and damn if this 1:24 isn’t going to be one of the weirder minutes you have today.

And hey, just because I can, why not continue after the jump for “Passin’ Me By”.