CD Give-away:
Kiwibox is giving away 2 copies of Joe's new album, Ain't Nothin' Like Me.
How to enter:
All you have to do is post something cool/ constructive/ interesting/ about the album
and you are entered. In two weeks on May 21st, we will pick 2 usernames randomly and post the winners below.
Kiwibox is giving away 2 copies of Joe's new album, Ain't Nothin' Like Me.
How to enter:
All you have to do is post something cool/ constructive/ interesting/ about the album
and you are entered. In two weeks on May 21st, we will pick 2 usernames randomly and post the winners below.
Joe
Ain't Nothin' Like Me
Winners: Congratulations to the following Kiwibox users, who will each receive a copy of Joes's new album, Ain't Nothin' Like Me:
downshore
lemonberri
Quick critique: If you're going to name your album Ain't Nothin' Like Me, you shouldn't start the disc off with a song that samples a sample. "Get To Know Me" features Nas, which makes sense considering that the song's beat is directly lifted from the Nas' track "You're Da Man" from 2001's Stillmatic, which in turn is an interpolation of David Holmes "Sugar Man."
Samples of samples has been done to death--Ashanti's "Unfoolish" ripping B.I.G.'s "One More Chance," which ripped Debarge's "Stay With Me" being an embarrassing example--and it's the exact opposite of "ain't nothin' like me."
Moving on.
Ain't Nothin' Like Me is R&B heavyweight Joe's first album in four years, and he sounds as comfortable in today's R&B climate as he did when he was one of the pioneers of the R&B/Rap fusion that birthed Akon. "I'm With Her" is a slow shuffle, littered with handclaps and pretty-boy bravado, where "Let's Just Do It" (featuring an alphabet-addicted Fabolous) reinstates the future-funk that The Neptunes have all but abandoned.
As with most recent R&B releases, Ain't Nothin' Like Me runs too long, with too many lulls between the heavy hitters like the terrific single "If I Was Your Man." The tail-end of the album sags in comparison to the star-studded first two-thirds, and it doesn't help matters that Joe re-samples yet another hip-hop classic in "Just Relax" (taken from A Tribe Called Quest's "Electric Relaxation"; originally from "Mystic Brew" by jazz great Ronnie Foster).
Come on!
Maybe I'm not being fair enough. Dozens of today's biggest artists have built careers out of re-sampling (not traditional sampling, which is in fact an art form when done tastefully), so attacking Joe for it opens up a whole can of worms too big to discuss in one review. Still, Ain't Nothin' Like Me is enjoyable overall--but it does little to prove that he's your Average Joe.
lieing. Your new son "If I was your man" oh, my God I loved it.
That video of that song was very well expressed of your song. The
end part was very surprising when I first saw it. I also love that
video you made off Drumline that was the BOM! Oh, yes i still say
the slang BOM as well as THAT WAS OFF THE HOOK. Your CD Ain't
Nothin'Like Me WAS OFF THE HOOK!!! I Love you to the fullest! Your
fan Chantal!