Ridgewood, New Jersey’s MC Paul Barman is one of a kind. The rapper, best known for his early work with Prince Paul (and for inventing the word “vajajay”), is equally likely to rap in acrostics, reference Polish film directors, or tell a dirty story about Rae Dawn Chong. Barman’s virtuosic and imaginative songs about vulture shark sculpture parks, anarchist bookstores, and cock mobsters create a wild, fascinating world where almost anything can happen.

Much like Souls of Mischief and MF DOOM, his style often consists of multi-syllabic rhyming, where not just the last word in a line rhymes, but several parallel syllables.