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Track Listing 1. Avenues - Refugee Camp All-Stars/Ky-Mani - (featuring Pras) 2. My Everything - Barry White/Faith Evans 3. No Way Out - Puff Daddy - (featuring Black Rob) 4. Dream, A - Mary J. Blige 5. Money Talks - Lil' Kim - (featuring Andrea Martin) 6. Penetration - Next/Naughty By Nature 7. Tell Me How You Want It - SWV 8. Everyday - Angie Stone/Devox 9. Keep It Bubblin' - Brand Nubian 10. Teaching, The - Me'Shell NdegeOcello 11. Feel So Good - Mase 12. Things Just Ain't the Same - Deborah Cox 13. Back in You Again - Rick James - (featuring Lil' Cease) 14. Real Thing, The - Lisa Stansfield 15. You're the First, The Last, My Everything - Barry White
Album Notes Producers include: Stevie J., Nashiem Myrick, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Rodney Jerkins, Timbaland. Engineers include: Warren Riker, John Gamble, Bob Antoine, David Gamson, Doug Wilson. This is a fairly strong soundtrack disc, with a generous, varied assortment of reggae, R & B, and rap. Things open up with the Refugee Camp All Stars's cover of Eddie Grant's 80's smash "Electric Avenue." The All Stars manage to freshen this one up with some good raps and a nice, steady groove. Next up is Barry White, the love man himself, in a fine duet with Faith Evans on "My Everything," a sweet soul ballad, both sinewy and sultry, that bears listening in those late, late hours. Other highlights include SWV's "Tell Me How You Want It" and Me'Shell Ndegeocello's lilting, airy "The Teaching," another "Quiet Storm" moment waiting to happen if there ever was one. The incomparable Mase also make an appearance, with a hip-hop cover of Kool and the Gang's classic 70's hit "Hollywood Swingin." Rounding things out are appearances from Brand Nubian and Mary J Blige. All in all, MONEY TALKS offers talent, variety and grooves in generous amounts.
Industry Reviews This late addition to the summer hip-hop soundtrack war wins points for adding another chapter to Rick James' comeback effort...and including maverick Me'Shell Ndegeocello among more mainstream divas... - Rating: B Entertainment Weekly (09/19/1997)
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