Details
Track Listing
1. Intro
2. Young Boy
3. Virginia
4. Grindin'
5. Cot' Damn - (featuring Ab-Liva/Roscoe P Goldchain)
6. Ma I Don't Love Her - (featuring Faith Evans)
7. Famlay Freestyle
8. When Was the Last Time
9. Ego
10. Comedy Central - (featuring Fabolous)
11. Gangsta Lean
12. I'm Not You - (featuring Jadakiss/Styles)
13. Let's Talk About It - (featuring Jermaine Dupri)
14. Grindin' - (remix)
15. Grindin' - (selector remix)
Album Notes
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracls and multimedia computer files.
The Clipse: Malice, Pusha T.
Additional personnel includes: Ab-Liva, Roscoe P. Goldchain, Fabolous, Faith Evans, Jadakiss, Styles, Jermaine Dupri.
Recorded at MasterSound Studios, Windmark Studios, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel includes: The Clipse, FamLay, Fabolous, Jermaine Dupri, Jadakiss, Styles P, N.O.R.E., Baby, Lil' Wayne, Sean Paul, Bless, Kardinal Offishall, Faith Evans, Ag-Liva, Roscoe P. Coldchain.
This includes a bonus DVD disc.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Though Virginia's most well known hip-hop exports may have been Timbaland and Missy Elliot, the release of Clipse's debut album introduces a pair of new players to that hegemony. In fact, brothers Gene and Terrence Thornton (Malice and Pusha T, respectively) were born in that cradle of hip-hop the Bronx, but they spent their formative years on the streets of Virginia. LORD WILLIN' is the duo's second try at a debut album, as their previous effort for another label was indefinitely shelved. Turns out it was worth the wait. Produced by none other than the super-hot Neptunes, every track here pulsates with a crisp, funky energy that fully matches the sharply honed rhymes of the Thornton brothers, most spectacularly of all on the autobiographical "Young Boy," which is powered by one of the hardest-hitting grooves in recent memory.
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - ...Their verses roll out with an infectious strut, but it's the Neptunes beats backing them up that elevate this to radio-hit heights...
Rolling Stone (09/05/2002)
...LORD WILLIN' is a funky juxtaposition of gritty haze slingin' tales....thankfully, Clipse pushes rhymes like it pushes weight...
CMJ (09/16/2002)
...The Clipse seize the moment with hustlers' tales culled from Virginia's mean streets, a raw compliment to the Neptune's artsy, unrepentant grime... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (09/13/2002)
Ranked #9 on EW's list of 2002's Albums of the Year
|
|
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
All rights reserved.
