New R&B/Pop Album/CD Releases: August 2009 Edition
Dorrough
Dorrough Music
The Dallas native enrolled at Prairie View A&M University while at Prairie View, he recorded the song ‘Do Tha Muscle’ as a member of the group Prime Time Click. The high-energy tune became a sensation on college campuses across the country and on Dallas radio, winning the Hometown Showdown on K104 FM for a week straight before being added to the station’s rotation. Aided by his homegrown popularity, Dorrough and his infectious, club-ready tunes quickly developed large followings in such Texas cities as Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, as well as throughout Louisiana and Oklahoma.
1. Boy I Grind [Explicit]
2. Ice Cream Paint Job [Explicit]
3. She Ain’t Got It All (feat. Lil Flip) [Explicit]
4. Hood Song [Explicit]
5. Flashout (feat. Mista Mac)
6. Never Changed [Explicit]
7. Feel This Way [Explicit]
8. Piece & Chain Swangin (feat. Slim Thug) [Explicit]
9. This Time You Was Wrong [Explicit]
10. Walk That Walk [Explicit]
11. Wired To The T [Explicit]
12. Trunk Bang (feat. Tum Tum) [Explicit]
13. What’s My Ringtone [Explicit]
14. A Whole Lotta [Explicit]
15. Caramel Sundae (feat. Fat B) [Explicit]
K’Jon
The major label debut from the Detroit native K’Jon. Featuring the hit song “On The Ocean”.
What separates K’Jon from his contemporaries, besides his lilting vocals, are the production values on I Get Around. You can hear acoustic guitar on the sweeping “Feels Like Love,” and the grandeur of a theatrical ballad on “I’ll Never Forget.”
The music, handled in-house by K’Jon’s production team, is real soul music–the kind that speaks to an earlier time in our music history. From lively instrumentation to lush vocal arrangements, K’Jon does the Motor City proud with his approach to classic rhythm and blues.
On the intensive ballads, K’Jon’s vocals are seamlessly blended together to achieve a choir-like harmony sound. And while he’s a natural balladeer, K’Jon also knows how to make a crowd move on his midtempo tracks.
1. Intro
2. I Get Around
3. Fa Sho
4. Fly Away
5. This Time
6. On The Ocean (Interlude)
7. On The Ocean
8. Summer Rain
9. After The Club
10. I Know U See It
11. Doin It Big
12. What’s Really Good
13. On Everything
14. I’ll Never Forget
15. Vanity
Slaughterhouse
Slaughterhouse
2009 release from the Hip Hop supergroup which consists of lyrical heavyweights Joe Budden , Royce Da 5′ 9, Crooked I and Joell Ortiz. In a time where Hip Hop appears to be in a similar recession that our economy is entrenched in, four emcees have banded together to form a Rap supergroup like none other. All four emcees have had their fair share of major label love. All four have also been written off (with the exception of the young Ortiz), after their label mishaps, only to rise like the phoenix and utilize the internet to buld massive cult followings. You probably know them individually, but this is about getting to know Slaughterhouse as a collective.
1. Sound Off
2. Lyrical Murderers (feat. K. Young)
3. Microphone
4. Not Tonight
5. The One (feat. The New Royales)
l6. In The Mind Of Madness (skit)
7. CuckooSlaughterhouse
8. The Phone Call (skit)
9. Onslaught 2 (feat. Fatman Scoop)
10. The Phone Call (skit)
11. Salute (feat. Pharoahe Monch)
12. Pray (it’s A Shame)
13. Cut You Loose
14. Rain Drops (feat. Novel)
15. Killaz (feat. Melanie Rutherford & C. Brown)
Sean Paul
Imperial Blaze
Sean Paul is the most successful Jamaican artist of all time on the US charts, with three #1 singles (Temperature, Get Busy, and Baby Boy), five Top Ten hits (including We Be Burnin’ and Gimme The Light), and eight chart entries over two worldwide multi-platinum albums.
The Trinity confirmed Sean’s stature as truly an international superstar, with total global sales in excess of 4 million. The album followed Sean’s 2002 RIAA 2x platinum certified VP/Atlantic debut, Dutty Rock which sold more than 6 million copies worldwide.
1. Intro: Chi Ching Ching
2. Lace It
3. So Fine
4. Now That I’ve Got Your Love
5. Birthday Suit
6. Press It Up
7. Evening Ride
8. Hold My Hand [I'll Be There] Feat. Keri Hilson
9. She Want Me
10. Daddy’s Home
11. Bruk Out
12. Pepperpot
13. Wine Baby Wine
14. Running Out Of Time
15. Don’t Tease Me
16. Lately
17. She Wanna Be Down
18. Straight From My Heart
19. Private Party
20. I Know U Like It
Ledisi
Turn Me Loose
2009 album from the Grammy Award-nominated vocalist featuring songs produced by Raphael Saadiq, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Chief XCel, Chucky Thompson, Rex Rideout and others. Although Ledisi was a seasoned artist before joining Verve, she says she is still finding herself musically. Turn Me Loose is a turning point in her artistic evolution. “During the making of this record, I was asking myself, ‘How do I maintain the listeners I have now and be myself as I today? That was the struggle. But I knew I needed to stretch myself and be more open to different people.” Features the first single ‘Goin’ Thru Changes’.
1. Runnin’
2. Everything Changes
3. Turn Me Loose
4. Higher Than This
5. Alone
6. Love Never Changes
7. Please Stay
8. Knockin’
9. Say No
10. Goin’ Thru Changes
11. I Need Love
12. Trippin’
13. The Answer To Why
14. Them Changes
Queen Latifah
Persona
“It doesn’t have a specific theme - each [song] was so different from the next, me being the common denominator. And I realized my different characters were coming through on these [songs]. My acting, singing and rapping identities all came together under one roof as well as my taste in different kinds of music. I’d say it’s half rap and half singing. If I had to categorize it, it would be more like hip hop urban alternative”.
1. The Light
2. Fast Cars
3. My Couch feat. Dre
4. Hard To Love Ya feat. Busta Rhumes, Shawn Stockman, and Dre
5. Runnin Listen
6. Take Me Away (with you) feat. Marsha Ambrosius
7. Cue The Rain
8. Long Ass Week
9. People feat. Mary J. Blige & Jadakiss
10. The World
11. Spotlight
12. If You Want To produced by Pharrell
13. Over The Mountain
14. Champion
15. Fair Weather Friend
J. Moss
Just James
This album is about adoration and praise and worshipping the Most High God. Every track is different and he showed a variety of musical styles. You can understand the meaning behind the title of the album. He is simply just James, revealing his true heart. I didn’t get complicated fancy melodies that were on his previous albums. No doubt I loved his other albums but sometimes you just want to really get to know the man without all trimmings.You get that on this one. You get James.
1. I Gave It Up
2. So Into You
3. Restored
4. Anointing
5. Sweet Jesus
6. No More
7. God Happens
8. Holy One
9. Rebuild
10. Just James
Najee
Mind Over Matter
Sometimes making music is all about the mechanics - balancing the melody with the harmony and the rhythm, making sure the tempo is right from the beginning of the song to the end, matching the right vocalist to the story within the lyrics, knowing when to come in with the solos and when to hang back…the litany of technical details to consider in crafting a piece of good music can be endless. But sometimes the process is much more intuitive and effortless. Sometimes the planets line up and the right groove emerges on its own, and all anyone needs to do - musicians and listeners alike - is get on board and ride into a realm of limitless possibilities.
That intuitive approach is at the heart of Mind Over Matter. In addition to Najee’s fine balance of songcraft and musicianship, the album also includes songwriting and guest appearances by keyboardist Jeff Lorber and vocalists Eric Benét and Gary Taylor. The album title, says Najee, is inspired by Miles Davis’ approach to songwriting, especially in the latter part of his career. “In his later years, he took a very loose and improvisational approach,” he says. “He would start with nothing more than a groove that Marcus Miller or some other member of his band would lay down. And from there he would just develop these melodies that were very simple but at the same time very compelling and very memorable. It was a creative process that bypassed the nuts and bolts of the song and just got right to the essence of it.”
Whatever the groove - be it R&B, neo-soul, contemporary jazz or an intriguing blend of all these styles and more - Mind Over Matter adds another layer of sophistication and polish to Najee’s substantial and diverse body of work. “Whenever I go into the studio, I try to make a record that’s a little different from the last one,” he says. “I want people to get the same Najee that they’re familiar and comfortable with, but at the same time, I want them to hear something fresh, something interesting, something unpredictable - with a couple extra voices in the mix that they haven’t heard on my records in the past.”
1. Love You A Life Time
2. Sweet Summer Nights
3. Mind Over Matter
4. Forever And A Day After
5. We Gonna Ride
6. The Journey
7. Stolen Glances
8. Needless To Say
9. One More Thing
10. Moon Over Carolina
November 6th, 2009 at 7:34 pm