Dinner And A Movie

"I don't have to kill anyone. I just think it. It's all up here. Believe me, if I started killing anyone, there'd be none of you left."- "The Interrogation", Dinner And A Movie

Brotha Lynch Hung watches a lot of movies, mostly horror flicks. The King of Sacramento also writes screenplays: While penning his first script, he simultaneously wrote his Strange Music debut, Dinner and a Movie. Blurring the line between audio CD and audio book, listeners are sucked into the highly imaginative mind of Lynch as he plays out gruesome tales of murder, violence and deception. Powered by his twisted sense of humor, Dinner and a Movie is both therapeutic and fantastical, as Lynch unleashes his own demons while at the same time creating a character so unlike himself.

Dinner and A Movie, the first of three concept albums Brotha Lynch Hung will release via Strange Music, follows the life of a serial killer that's slaying rappers in the game. "Back in the day, we used to say eat rappers up or kill rappers off and eat 'em up," Lynch explains. "That's basically what I'm doing. On the album it sounds like I'm doing it to people, but it's really rappers."

Each track on Dinner and a Movie plays out like a scene in a motion picture: a psychotic horror film to be precise. Blending his addiction to court TV and programs about serial killing with his respect for scary cinemateurs like Rob Zombie and Wes Craven, and films like Hostel and Saw, Lynch's album is the perfect vehicle to explore his fascination with deranged killers. He's also able to showcase his own ability to switch on and off his double personality: regular person by day, serial killer by night.

For Dinner and a Movie, Lynch rounded up a handful of like-minded emcees, including BZO and First Degree The DE, to help him carry out his sonic murder spree. On "Colostomy Bag," Lynch, G Macc and C-Lim ride a pulsing, piano-driven beat. Produced by Justinn "Axis" Patton, who crafts five tracks on Dinner and a Movie, "Colostomy Bag" transforms mad man humor into a West Coast anthem. Axis also constructs musical mayhem on the pulsating "Murder Over Hard," punctuated by alarming cymbals and sirens, on which Lynch continues to let his murderous rants loose: "Me and murder are tight like vice grips."