Redman said he used Muddy Waters as his opportunity to come back “into the light” and he wasn’t subtle about leaving the Dare Iz a Darkside sound behind. He has also said that he barely revisited the sophomore album after recording it, and rarely performs songs from it. Redman has since revealed that Darkside reflected a, well, dark time in his life, when he was taking lots of LSD and various other mind-altering substances. Redman himself handled much of the album’s production, with Sermon producing far fewer tracks. And the album sound is much closer to those early psychedelic, drugged-out, early ’70s Funkadelic albums than its precursor Whut? Thee Album ever was.
An homage to Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain, it depicted Redman alone, buried neck-down in dirt in the middle of the desert, shrieking to the heavens. The content of Darkside was reflected by the album’s cover. Muddy Waters represented a minor tonal shift for Redman after 1994’s Dare Iz a Darkside. But he considered his crowning achievement to be his third album Muddy Waters, which was released in December 1996. In 1994, he released his follow-up album Dare Iz a Darkside. He sided with Sermon after EPMD’s tragic breakup in early 1993, and became a founding member of the Def Squad, which was comprised of Sermon, Redman, and the Long Island hard rock/Philly Blunt King Keith Murray. He was a member of the infamous Hit Squad (made up of EPMD, Das EFX, Redman, K-Solo, and the Knuckleheadz) during the early 1990s, and recorded his debut effort Whut? The Album in 1992 under Sermon’s tutelage. Redman’s career had long been tied to his mentors Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith of EPMD, ever since he met Sermon while working as the DJ for Lords of the Underground.
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