Author: PUFF DADDY AND THE FAM

Brand: WACR2

Features:

• NO WAY OUT MUSIC

Format: Explicit Lyrics

Release Date: 11-07-2005

Details: Product Description Entrepreneur, trendsetter, producer, and now Bad Boy's newest recording star - Sean "Puffy" Combs, a.k.a. Puff Daddy. After putting his imprint on some of the era's biggest hip hop/R&B artists, he now takes it to the next level with his solo debut album, No Way Out. Highlights: The double-platinum "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" (#1 single on Billboard's rap, R&B and Hot 100 charts consecutively for 24 weeks), "I'll Be Missing You" (tribute to the Notorious BIG with Faith Evans and 112) and his newest hit, "It's All About the Benjamins." Amazon.ca For old-school hip-hop fans, raised on and , this is the equivalent of Chinese water-torture: a 17-track collection of tepid beats, lame, solipsistic rhymes and numbingly obvious 80s-pop references--mostly performed by the music's reigning majordomo: a man who, to all appearances, can neither rap, sing nor dance. What's indisputable, however, is that Sean "Puffy" Combs' success demonstrates a profound rupture in the hip-hop firmament. As the style intruded upon the commercial mainstream, its makers sensed the lucrative opportunities on offer, and became more blatantly aspirational; consequently, the lyrics changed--their subject-matter shifting from revolution to acquisition, from AKs to Versace--while the music became less dense and more buyer-friendly. And despite (or, more precisely, because of) his artistic failings, Combs was the perfect exemplar of where the genre was at, post-Tupac, post-Biggie. He'd like to claim credit for remaking hip-hop in his own image, but in fact, he's merely a symptom of its decline. --Andrew McGuire

UPC: 786127301229

EAN: 0786127301229

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood