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Track Listing
1. Pain Is Love - (skit)
2. Dial M For Murder
3. Livin' It Up - (featuring Case)
4. Inc., The
5. Always on Time
6. Down A** B**Ch
7. Never Again
8. Worldwide Gangsta
9. Leo - (skit)
10. I'm Real - (Murder remix, featuring Jennifer Lopez)
11. Smokin and Ridin
12. X
13. Big Remo - (skit)
14. Lost Little Girl
15. So Much Pain
16. Pain Is Love
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Ja Rule (rap vocals); Jennifer Lopez, Missy Elliot, Case (vocals); 7 (various instruments); Anthony Mazza (guitar); Gimi Taylor (bass); Carl "Butch" Smalls (percussion).
Engineers include: Brian Springer, Milwaukee Buck, Glen Marchese.
Principally recorded at the Crackhouse, New York, New York.
PAIN IS LOVE was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. "Livin' It Up" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.
"Always On Time" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.
Ja Rule has answered his calling. It's the club-friendly beat, the R&B hook and sing-songy, rough-edged vocals that seem to work for Ja. So he's sticking with it. With the backing of Murder Inc. label head (and this album's producer) Irv Gotti, Ja Rule picks up right where he left off with PAIN IS LOVE. Teaming up with the rhythmic crooner Case, Ja Rule reinterprets the Stevie Wonder classic "Do I Do" into the rap jam of 2001, "Livin' It Up." The album also features J. Lo's remix of "I'm Real," which Ja Rule helped turn into a hit. Missy Elliott drops in a verse on "Ex," and with the help of modern technology, Tupac lives on "So Much Pain." For Ja Rule, his pain means a lot more than love, it means success too.
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - ...Most of the album follows the same pattern as his current Number One 'I'm Real': fluffy keyboards, R&B choruses sung by anonymous hook girls and Ja Rule's gritty raps...Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.86) - ...Songs about expecting to die at any moment have rarely been conveyed with such blunt precision... - Rating: B+
Rolling Stone (11/22/2001)
...Songs about expecting to die at any moment have rarely been conveyed with such blunt precision... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (10/12/2001)
3 stars out of 5 - ...Most of the album follows the same pattern as his current Number One 'I'm Real': fluffy keyboards, R&B choruses sung by anonymous hook girls and Ja Rule's gritty raps...
Rolling Stone (11/22/2001)
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