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Outkast's Aquemini is liquid magic

Advantages: Top-Notch Lyrics and Flows, Unique Production, Originality, Variety, Humorous, Subject Matter
Disadvantages: A Few Weaker Moments

...from the dirty south. Aquemini kicks off with "Hold On, Be Strong" and "Return of the "G"", the first two tracks. The first is a unique intro with some funky harmonization, which leads into the second track, the first actual track on this album. The track kicks off slowly, with a hard hitting drum / bass combo, synthesized violin, harmonized perfectly to give it a futuristic, sort of epic feel to it. Outkast drop ill verses about Big Boi and Andre's ...
...of the true highlights of Aquemini are the two tracks in "Da Art of Storytelling" series. The first of the two happens to be the second single from this album. Outkast redefine the word storytelling, and use it to their complete advantage on this track. We get a story about an old friend of these two emcees, who sadly died from an overdose of heroin. The song's production, though sort of having a fast-vibe, doesn't fully describe its texture, due ...

bigdiship-hop 12.10.2009 · Read full review
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Run DMC's Greatest of The Great

Advantages: All the hits in one place.
Disadvantages: n/a

...deemed to be Run DMC's greatest work. Tracklist: 1 Sucker M.C.'s [Krush-Groove 1] 2 Walk This Way 3 Together Forever [Krush-Groove 4](Live At Hollis Park) 4 King of Rock 5 Run's House 6 It's Tricky 7 Pause 8 You Be Illin' 9 My Adidas 10 Here We Go (Live At The Fun House) 11 Rock Box 12 Ave. 13 Hard Times 14 Beats to the Rhyme 15 Jam-Master Jay 16 Peter Piper 17 It's Like That 18 Christmas in Hollis As greatest hits albums go, they don't really get ...
...work, I would have liked 'It's Not Funny' (from their King Of Rock album) to have been included on this but this is still more than great without it. This compliation showcases their innovative style and techniques and gives some indication of why Run DMC are so widely respected and admired over twenty five years after their first release. ...

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And I Am Telling You... I'm Not Goin

Advantages: Great singer, some great songs
Disadvantages: Some weak songs

...it. Who is Jennifer Hudson? Hudson is an American singer and actress and first became known on American reality tv show American Idol where she was kicked off half way through the live finals of Season 3. However she went on to star in the motion picture Dreamgirls, and won a numerous amount of awards and even the best award an Oscar. This album was released in September 2008 and lets see if it lives up to her role in Dreamgirls: Track List ...
...nose sound very good, and Jennifer seems to be following they're style here. This is a good track however, pleasant to listen too but just way too RnB and dancey for my liking, now where are the ballads and the powerhouse voice that I have come to know. Rating: 6/10 Track 3- Pocketbook Really disappointed, this track is awful. This is the sort of track you hear on the radio and turn over, the beat boxing in the background is good, however her ...

DixieChick10 02.01.2009 · Read full review
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Whitney Goes Street

Advantages: Features the rip-roaring title track
Disadvantages: Some tracks are merely formulaic

...1990 with a fantastic album, I'm Your Baby Tonight, which conveyed her growing maturity as an evidently diverse recording artist and merley supported her confirmed status as perharps, the greatest singer since Aretha Franklin. The I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990) album was much more street containing amixture of styles ranging from R&B, Hip-Hop, Soul & Pop. The album opens with the title track, I'm Your Baby Tonight, a nifty, commercial R&B/Pop track ...
...a high with the fantastic, I'm Knockin' which encapsulates a striking mixture of Hip-Hop and R&B, containing undertones of Jazz. All in all, I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990) is very good and an essential album to have by Whitney Houston even though it didn't enjoy the same critical and commercial acclaim as her first pair of albums had. Ian Phillips September 2006 ...

IanPhillips 26.09.2006 · Read full review
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They're Loco, Bangin', And Fly

Advantages: A couple of good tunes
Disadvantages: Poor in comparison to their debut

TLC’s first return came in 1994 with “CrazySexyCool”; their second album and had trio T-Boz, Left Eye and Chilli come with more of their southern style of R&B to boost what they had already come up with on their 1992 debut (which featured them in the New Jack Swing style). 1. “Intro-Lude” 2. “Creep” Starting things here you find that they perform one of the biggest singles from the album. I have to say that I really wasn’t all that into what comes ...
...as it did as it really lack energy, and there’s not really a lot going on with it. All I can appreciate is the well-written lyrics which guide them as they do it here. They sample classic Slick Rock, but it is done in such a subtle way that it almost has no influence upon it whatsoever. **Two Stars** 3. “Kick Your Game” I saw this as the only real banger from the album, and I really can’t see how it can be taken any other way as it find that with ...

XICripZ 03.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Crazysexycool - TLC