Mixerr Album Reviews #611

This is Michael Mixerr. I will review Homiside - Off The Streets Of Saginaw. This cassette was only available in Saginaw, Michigan. This was released in 1992. This EP is filled super heavy pounding bass lines & notes. Homiside was That Nigga Bone aka Bone Skanless of the Skanbino Mob and Skanless Family. Bone Skanless recorded the two tracks. Of course this cassette wasn’t professionally mixed and mastered due to lack of funding with finances. So that’s why his vocals echo as if he were in a cathedral or a medium room.

Here comes the brotha from the gutta outta Saginaw on the track Off The Streets Of Saginaw! Off The Streets Of Saginaw super heavy pounding bass lines & notes over gangsta rap lyrics mixed in with distorted lo-fi production. Hank raps "Here comes the brotha from the gutta outta Saginaw!" on the hook. Homies from Bone Skanless lifetime are mention throughout the track.

Homiside takes us on a tour through the rough and rugged city of Saginaw, Michigan on Off The Streets Of Saginaw.
Watch your back while you’re in Saginaw! Homiside kicks the truth. Tales or murder mishaps and mayhem are told. A tale of a murder is told at the first minute of the track. Can’t go to parties without there being fights. Ever since the 1980s had passed, the city of Saginaw had seen a high rise in violent crime and robberies. By the 1990s the city of Saginaw has gotten worse. Saginaw is not the city it used to be. The Eastside is a war zone as Homiside describes for example. You might have thought police would have chilled after Rodney King but police murdered Malice Green in Detroit during 1992.

Homiside tells us why the city of Saginaw is a living hell. It's still true but even worse these days.
Homiside can’t get a job because he has a criminal record. (Bone Skanless had been in the Saginaw County Jail 2 months prior to this record.) You’ll labeled as a threat if you commit a crime.


Livin' Haunted reminds me very much of Mack Tha Jack'a - Cross Thoughts. Livin' Haunted reminds me of early ICP juggalo raps, early Esham, EVOL, and the early House Of Krazees horrorcore acid rap sound. Very garage sounding and lo-fi. It too is very distorted but I don't care what other people have to say! Mack Tha Jack'a speaks about the spiritualism of hell and heavy at the intro of Livin' Haunted. Homiside is explaining that he is livin’ haunted.


Homiside was overlooked and underrated back in the 1990s. I will always miss him and his music. Bone Skanless, Mack Tha Jacka, and Dirty Jerk should have blown up on a national scale. They just didn't have the money to push it right. If they had, that would have been a different story.

I rate this EP, Off The Streets Of Saginaw, 5/5*****!!