Backburner :: Heatwave :: Hand'Solo Records as reviewed by
Patrick Taylor  [Heatwave] The liner notes to Backburner's new
album are probably the funniest hip-hop liner notes ever:
"Dozens of albums have been released by groups and individuals
flying the Backburner flag, and the dream has always been to
squeeze our enormous personalities back into one tight package,
and blast that package into space like Zod and that chick and
the big dude in Superman II.  Heatwave: Fourteen tracks, sixteen
rappers, seven producers, and one DJ. Even these liner notes are
the most amazing liner notes of all time, and the CD itself is
made of a radioactive compound that reverses aging and improves
sexual confidence by up to a factor of nine. So basically I hope
you like getting your face melted off."  "Heatwave" may not be
the most amazing album of all time, but it is definitely comes
close to living up to its tongue-in-cheek hype. With sixteen
rappers and seven producers, there are some 1,792 combinations
Backburner could take