House, R&B, Soul & Rap > R House, R&B, Soul & Rap > Contemporary R&B > Pop R&B > 5 GBP to 10 GBP

Advantages: Loads of brillliant, stand the test of time classics.
Disadvantages: The odd song is slightly boring and repetitive.

...buy a different one "The definitive collection", as it is newer and has more tracks. I bought this on ebay, so a few days later the cd came through the post and I couldn't wait to put it on. With a Greatest hits CD you sort of know what to expect because you know the majority of the songs, however it still managed to attract me and I know that it's a classic that will be valued in my CD collection for years to come. ~~~Who is Lionel?~~~ I'm sure ...
...case.... Lionel Richie started his music career with the Commondores. He is one of the world's most recognized and rewarded performers. Lionel Richie has sold nearly 100 million albums and notched 22 Top 10 hits. He is most famously known for his big hits including "Three times a lady", "Endless love" (with Diana Ross) and "All night long". It is his ability to combine fast songs with ballads, and light hearted songs with intense love songs that ... Read review

Advantages: Includes all of the original sessions of the diana album
Disadvantages: Omits a few other Disco classics i'd like to have seen included

The attractively packaged diana Deluxe Edition is one of, if not THE most, definitive entry in Soul diva Diana Ross' seemingly gigantic back catologue of albums. Released in the summer of 2003, the diana Deluxe Edition also, for the very first time, showcases the original sessions intended for the album, remixed by those two renowned R&B/Disco wizards, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. Following on from the critically-acclaimed, The Boss (1979) album, ...
...final mix of the album, Diana simply wasn't happy. She felt that her vocals had been pushed too far into the background with the emphasis being on the music rather than the voice. She took the finished results and with the assistance of Russ Terenna, completly remixed the entire album herself, pushing her vocals foward and basically as she quoted "put a little of Diana Ross into the project". Learning of Dianas new re-mixed album, Rogers and Edwards ... Read review

Advantages: Great lyricism
Disadvantages: Repetitive beats

...debut from Slick Rick. "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick" comes three years after debuting with the beatboxer Doug E. Fresh as part of the Get Fresh Crew, who brought Hip Hop classics "The Show" and "La Di Da Di", which are both sampled through this record. Slick Rick is a rapper originally born in London, and moved over to the US at the age of ten, due to it occurrin at this specific age, you can tell that he is able to interchange between a British ...
...here Ricky D raps with great swagger and expressess how he feels about being abel to do what he does, and how people compleement him on it constantly. **Four Stars** 12. "Lick The Balls" I can't say that I really understood this one, or found a reason why the title was used, because the raps, aside from the chorus where far from where you you would think the theme of the raps are going. I think that this exposes he weaken in losing the plot when ... Read review

Advantages: Great beats. Classic West Coast rap
Disadvantages: A couple of weaker tunes

"Efil4Zaggin" ("N****z4Life" backwards) is the third album from the pioneering Gangsta Rap group, N.W.A. It is their third and final album of new tracks and has them performing on their first full-lengthed release without the aid of Ice Cube, therefore only having N.W.A consisting of Dr. Dre, DJ Yella, The D.O.C., Eazy-E and MC Ren. 1. "Prelude" (Intro) 2. "Real N****z Don't Die" N.W.A make you question all things about life which you probably ...
...talk about how you can't say that "n***a" has died, when such people won't have lived in comparison to how others do with so many priveledges. The title of this has been used more recently in the Dirty South, to descibes the 'Trill' gangstas of Texas, Memphis and Atlanta. **Four Stars** 3. "N****z 4 Life" N.W.A address the issues which had been with them since their debut as you hear various different people complaining about the levels of profanites ... Read review

Advantages: 'On Top of the World', 'My Life Your Entertainment', 'Dead & Gone'
Disadvantages: 'Ready for Whatever', 'Porn Star', 'Every Chance I Get'

...lyrics were written down on paper whilst TI was under house arrest on pending gun charges. After serving 1,000 hours of community service, TI shall be serving a year prison sentence. The initial arrest came a matter of hours before the Black Entertainment Television award ceremony, and he was charged for the possession of three unregistered machine guns as well as two silencers. Some may wonder why on earth he required these, and although clearly ...
...have prompted him to write some of the best music of his career. Luckily his millions of albums sold worldwide were enough to pay his $3,000,000,000 bail -- although only having little success in the UK. How was 'Paper Trail' received? TI's previous albums have all been relatively successful in their own right, however with over 500,000 sales in the opening week, 'Paper Trail' became his most successful debut to date -- even in the climate ... Read review