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Track Listing
1. Intro
2. Wait a Minute - (featuring Lil' Kim)
3. Takin' Control
4. Formal Invite - (featuring Pharell Williams)
5. Keep Your Head Up
6. I Tried
7. U Need It/U Don't
8. Out Tha Ghetto - (featuring Shorty Mac)
9. No More
10. This Ain't a Game
11. Interlude
12. Wet Me
13. Crazy
14. I Got It All
15. Airport Skit
16. Where Do We Go From Here
Album Notes
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains regular audio tracks, multimedia computer files and a link to the artist's website with the help of a web browser.
Personnel includes: Ray J, Lil' Kim, Shorty Mack, Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, Rodney Jenkins.
Producers include: Rodney Jerkins, The Neptunes, Bryson Evans, Lil' Mo, DJ Clue.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
With a production that places an emphasis on smart, lean hooks and sensual atmosphere, this hip-hop mack daddy strikes subtly but effectively on THIS AIN'T A GAME. The consistently interesting sonic textures ("Formal Invite" is based around a synth hook that sounds like water flowing through a faucet) successfully frame Ray J's smoldering, low-key raps.
Instead of railing against social injustices on THIS AIN'T A GAME, Ray prefers to specialize in hot and heavy come-ons, which are delivered with an unhurried confidence that underlines the ladies-man image he so successfully inhabits. For the ladies, there's the sure sensuality of Ray J's approach. For the guys, there's the music itself, an aural seduction of purely aesthetic appeal. Though J insists that THIS AIN'T A GAME, he seems to have the whole game covered.
Industry Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - ...There's nothing tame about Ray-J's R&B. Part Missy Elliot, part Bobby Brown...pneumatic tales of pleasuring sexy ladies and dumping possessive ones, delivering meticulous grooves and non-PC attitude...
Q (08/01/2001)
...Evoking Bobby Brown and OFF THE WALL-era Jacko, sounding surprisingly credible on the hard-knock-life odes 'Out the Ghetto' and 'Wait a Minute'... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (06/22/2001)
...His fans, comprised mainly of horny teenage girls, will welcome the sexed-up gangsta image he portrays...
The Source (07/01/2001)
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