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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Queen Latifah |
| Record Label: |
Verve (USA) |
| Contributing Artist: |
Shawn Stockman |
| Genre: |
R&B |
| Subgenre: |
Rap |
| Release Date: |
August 25, 2009 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Light
2. Fast Car
3. Cue The Rain
4. My Couch
5. Take Me Away (With You) (featuring Marsha Ambrosius)
6. With You
7. Hard To Love Ya (featuring Shawn Stockman/Busta Rhymes)
8. What's The Plan
9. Long Ass Week
10. Runnin
11. People
12. If He Wanna (featuring Serani)
13. Over The Mountain
14. World
15. Fair Weather Friend |
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Recording information: Conway Record Studio, Los Angeles, CA; The Record Room, Miami, FL. Photographer: Mike Ruiz. Following a pair of vocal showcase albums that involved classy yet fun spins on the likes of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Nina Simone, and Billy Strayhorn, Queen Latifah enlists producers Cool & Dre to help concoct PERSONA, a willfully schizophrenic set of pop-oriented material. As anyone familiar with her recent screen and studio work would expect, Latifah's shifts from character to character are not rocky. "What's the Plan" is an obvious Cheryl Lynn circa-"Encore" impersonation, albeit one streaked with Dre's vocal effect-driven gibberish. "Cue the Rain" works a rocking backdrop--not unlike a fist-pumping cut off a mid-'80s soundtrack--with quotes from Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain." One of the more contemporary tracks, the sleek and flirty "Take Me Away (With You)," features Marsha Ambrosius and is surprisingly effective. Just about all of it is enjoyable. Few vocalists who can sing... |
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