Beenie Man, Art and Life (2000)
Beenie Man is this country's biggest dancehall star. This is evident in the release of Art and Life which has many radio friendly songs such as Love Me Now featuring Wyclef and Redman and Girls Dem Sugar with Mya.
The closest thing to true dancehall, on this album, would have to be Analyze This. To a serious dancehall groove, Beenie Man chants "Analyze this, every child and tourist/ dem ya gal have the face, the figure and dem have the hip/ analyze this, how them ya gal a so fit, me have to wonder if dem gal body play the music/analyze this, them ya gal a cry for the whip, and the Jamaican man when them want the ever fit." Other noticeable dance hall tunes include the off the boat Crazy Tunes where Beenie tells us how he never goes down. "Gun shot inna de air, no gal never sit in a man face like chair, she hafta find herself some other guy," says Beenie in this bass heavy banger. Another ruckus dance hall joint is the uptempo Trus Me.
Although the dance hall songs keep this album on my hot list, its downside is how often it works my skip button. Beenie records some true stinkers in Best That I Got, which is actually up there with his worst, and the downright boring 9 to 5. Beenie, leave that shit to the likes of Dolly Parton (no disrespect to Ms. Parton).
Beenie's Art and Life is a near miss. However, his guests might make you check it out. Featured on the album are Kelis, Tanto Metro and Devonte and Canadian rapper Choclair in addition to the forementioned Mya, Redman and Wyclef as well as some others.
Rating: 6 Gold Teefs
Buy or Copy: You could spend your hard earned money on better, copy.
The closest thing to true dancehall, on this album, would have to be Analyze This. To a serious dancehall groove, Beenie Man chants "Analyze this, every child and tourist/ dem ya gal have the face, the figure and dem have the hip/ analyze this, how them ya gal a so fit, me have to wonder if dem gal body play the music/analyze this, them ya gal a cry for the whip, and the Jamaican man when them want the ever fit." Other noticeable dance hall tunes include the off the boat Crazy Tunes where Beenie tells us how he never goes down. "Gun shot inna de air, no gal never sit in a man face like chair, she hafta find herself some other guy," says Beenie in this bass heavy banger. Another ruckus dance hall joint is the uptempo Trus Me.
Although the dance hall songs keep this album on my hot list, its downside is how often it works my skip button. Beenie records some true stinkers in Best That I Got, which is actually up there with his worst, and the downright boring 9 to 5. Beenie, leave that shit to the likes of Dolly Parton (no disrespect to Ms. Parton).
Beenie's Art and Life is a near miss. However, his guests might make you check it out. Featured on the album are Kelis, Tanto Metro and Devonte and Canadian rapper Choclair in addition to the forementioned Mya, Redman and Wyclef as well as some others.
Rating: 6 Gold Teefs
Buy or Copy: You could spend your hard earned money on better, copy.
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