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23/Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer & Jazmine Sullivan - Love Me Back
Surrounding yourself in all of the necessary trappings needed (and provided by our great soul forebrothas & sistahs)to create a stirring soul record is easy. The correct pitch, tone, and slight traces of mimicry can get the job done, but it takes more to stand out and make it WORK. It takes an ear, a student of the melody and lover of the sound to add to the cannon, borrowing where needed, while moving far beyond the realm of mimicry by inserting a sound, style or flow that is all their own. Not an easy task. But Jazmine Sullivan & Cee-Lo Green succeed where most others merely get by. The themes, the yearning, that passion and those sounds are all familiar, but the phrasings and showmanship is all theirs. Go ahead and file these two albums under "THE TRUTH", cause Ladies & Gentlemen, THIS is how you do it.
KEY TRACKS (CEE-LO): F*ck You/Bodies/Fool For You
KEY TRACKS (JAZMINE): 10 Seconds/Love You Long Time/Excuse Me
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