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Shocker: Prince Paul's next album will be a collaboration! Featuring a far-flung spate of guests! In a breezy yet funky style! Gosh, next thing you'll tell me, the album's gonna employ at least a couple skits and a faint whiff of wacky humor throughout the proceedings...

But this isn't De La or Handsome Boy Modeling School. This is Baby Elephant, Paul's partnership with keyboard legend Bernie Worrell-- he of Parliament/Funkadelic and Talking Heads fame-- and longtime collaborator Newkirk. Back in January of 2006, Paul told us about the project: "[Worrell]'s an accomplished musician and I'm some B-boy cat," he said. "I don't want people to think it's like some hip-hop beats over him playing. We're trying to invent something."

Turn My Teeth Up!, Baby Elephant's debut album, contains a few blasts from Worrell's past. George Clinton shows up twice, and David Byrne appears on "How Does the Brain Wave?", which you can download below. Reggae giant Yellowman, Digital Underground's Shock G, and Labelle crooner Nona Hendryx, are among the other guests on the album, due on Godforsaken Music September 11. But will it outsell Curtis?

Turn them shits up!:

01 The Search (skit)
02 Baby Elephants N Thangs (ft. George Clinton)
03 Painfield (ft. Shock G)
04 Cool Runnins (ft. Yellowman)
05 Master (skit)
06 If You Don't Wanna Dance (ft. Reggie Watts)
07 Language (skit)
08 Even Stranger
09 Crack Addicts in Love (ft. Nona Hendryx)
10 Turn My Teeth Up
11 Plug (skit)
12 How Does the Brain Wave? (ft. David Byrne)
13 Skippin Stonze (ft. Gabby La La)
14 100 Keyboards (skit)
15 Scratchinatanitchouttareach
16 Fred Berry
17 Take Me to Brazil (skit)