Knowing Is Half the Hassle

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Knowing Is Half the Hassle
Studio album by MC Chris
Released	2003
Recorded	2003
Genre	Nerdcore hip hop
Length	18:56
Label	DC Flag
MC Chris chronology
Life's a Bitch and I'm Her Pimp (2001) Knowing is Half the Hassle (2003) Eating's Not Cheating (2004)

Knowing is Half the Hassle is the second album released by rapper MC Chris. It was released in 2003. The cover features Hexagram 63 from the I Ching.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Ten Year Old"
2. "Co-efficient (Skit)"
3. "Cookie Breath"
4. "Hijack"
5. "Glory Hole (Skit)"
6. "White Kids Love Hip-Hop"
7. "The Hammer (Skit)"
8. "Geek"

Some versions of the CD move "Cookie Breath" after "White Kids Love Hip-Hop" though the CD case has the songs listed as above.^{[citation needed]} The third pressing of Knowing Is Half the Hassle has an alternate version of the track "Hijack" which contains a guitar background as well as a piano.^{[citation needed]}

The rare, first printing of the CD also contains Andy Merrill, the voice of Brak on The Brak Show, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Cartoon Planet doing a comedic skit at the end of the track "White Kids Love Hip-Hop".^{[citation needed]} This version of the CD only had 200 copies, was printed on CD-R discs, and had a hand-made cover signed by MC Chris.

[edit] References

The Cover of this album is the Taoist Hexagram. It is the trigram symbol of water over the trigram symbol of fire.

Hexagram 63 of the I Ching is the symbol of G.I. Joe's Arashikage ninja clan, whose members include Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow. The album's title is presumably a reference to the G.I. Joe cartoon's PSA slogan, "Knowing is half the battle".