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The few rap-R&B hybrids on Rule 3:36 (2000) paid off large dividends by the time of Ja Rule's next album, Pain Is Love. A day didn't pass between the release of the two albums when Ja Rule's voice couldn't be heard on urban radio, and at the time of Pain Is Love's release in October 2001, he had not one but two singles getting nonstop airplay: "Livin' It Up" and "I'm Real," the latter a Jennifer Lopez song featuring him as a guest rapper. It should be no surprise then to discover that Pain Is Love follows the same formula that had made Rule 3:36 such a commercial success: craft some radio-friendly crossover singles, often featuring pretty young female R&B singers as romantic counterpoints, and then fill out the album with hardcore rap, often featuring Murder Inc.'s roster of secondary rappers, to sustain Ja Rule's thug reputation. Actually, this formula is fine-tuned on Pain Is Love to account for some exceptions -- for instance, the lead single, "Livin' It Up," interpolates Stevie Wonder's "Do I Do" for its crossover-R&B aspect, while the title track recycles an old, generally unheard 2Pac verse to great effect -- and a significantly more balanced album is the result. Plus, there's enough strong material here to encourage full-album listening, as the crossover singles no longer stand out apart from the hardcore rap filler to the degree that they did on Rule 3:36.
© Jason Birchmeier /TiVo
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Ja Rule, MainArtist - Not Applicable, ComposerLyricist - Inc. Top Dawg Productions, Producer
℗ 2001 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Jeffrey Atkins, ComposerLyricist - Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Ty Fyffe, ComposerLyricist - Marcus Vest, ComposerLyricist - Ja Rule, MainArtist - Dennis DeYoung, ComposerLyricist - Inc. Top Dawg Productions, Producer
℗ 2001 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Jeffrey Atkins, ComposerLyricist - Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Stevie Wonder, ComposerLyricist - Ja Rule, MainArtist - Milwaukee Buck, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Irv Gotti, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Case, FeaturedArtist - Rob "Lil Rob" Mays, ComposerLyricist - Ken "Supa Engineer" Duro, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Lil Rob, Producer
℗ 2001 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Jeffrey Atkins, ComposerLyricist - Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Caddillac Tah, FeaturedArtist - Tiheem Crocker, ComposerLyricist - Marcus Vest, ComposerLyricist - Ja Rule, MainArtist - Black Child, FeaturedArtist - Ramel Gill, ComposerLyricist - IG For Top Dawg Productions, Producer
℗ 2001 Murder Inc. Records L.L.C.
Jeffrey Atkins, ComposerLyricist - Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Ashanti Douglas, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Marcus Vest, ComposerLyricist - Glen Marchese, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ja Rule, MainArtist - Milwaukee Buck, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ashanti, FeaturedArtist - 7, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Irv Gotti for Top Dawg Productions, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 Def Jam Records
Jeffrey Atkins, ComposerLyricist - Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Marcus Vest, ComposerLyricist - Ja Rule, MainArtist - Chuck, FeaturedArtist - Tiffany Lane Jarmon, ComposerLyricist - Inc. Top Dawg Productions, Producer
℗ 2001 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Jeffrey Atkins, ComposerLyricist - Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Anthony Mazza, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Marcus Vest, ComposerLyricist - Paul Bushnell, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Glen Marchese, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ja Rule, MainArtist - Milwaukee Buck, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Irv Gotti, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - 7, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Jeffrey Atkins, ComposerLyricist - Mwata Mitchell, ComposerLyricist - Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Caddillac Tah, FeaturedArtist - Tiheem Crocker, ComposerLyricist - Marcus Vest, ComposerLyricist - Ja Rule, MainArtist - Boo, FeaturedArtist - Black Child, FeaturedArtist - Ramel Gill, ComposerLyricist - Gotti, FeaturedArtist - Fabrien Sledge, ComposerLyricist - Inc. Top Dawg Productions, Producer
℗ 2001 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ja Rule, MainArtist - Not Applicable, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Jeffrey Atkins, ComposerLyricist - Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Marcus Vest, ComposerLyricist - Ja Rule, MainArtist - Jodie Mack, FeaturedArtist - O1, FeaturedArtist - Chris Black, ComposerLyricist - Otha Miller, ComposerLyricist - Inc. Top Dawg Productions, Producer
℗ 2001 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Jeffrey Atkins, ComposerLyricist - Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Marcus Vest, ComposerLyricist - Tweet, FeaturedArtist - Ja Rule, MainArtist - Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Ja Rule, MainArtist - Not Applicable, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2001 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Jeffrey Atkins, ComposerLyricist - Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Marcus Vest, ComposerLyricist - Ja Rule, MainArtist - Inc. Top Dawg Productions, Producer
℗ 2001 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Jeffrey Atkins, ComposerLyricist - Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Randy Walker, ComposerLyricist - Ja Rule, MainArtist - Tupac Shakur, ComposerLyricist - 2PAC, FeaturedArtist - Rob "Lil Rob" Mays, ComposerLyricist - Ed Klugh, ComposerLyricist - Inc. Top Dawg Productions, Producer
℗ 2001 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Jeffrey Atkins, ComposerLyricist - Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Marcus Vest, ComposerLyricist - Ja Rule, MainArtist
℗ 2001 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Jeffrey Atkins, ComposerLyricist - Cynthia Loving, ComposerLyricist - Irving Lorenzo, ComposerLyricist - Tiheem Crocker, ComposerLyricist - Ja Rule, MainArtist - Irv Gotti, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Vita, FeaturedArtist - Paul Walcott, ComposerLyricist - Ken "Supa Engineer" Duro, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tru Stylze, Producer - Jonas Garbonick, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2000 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Album review
The few rap-R&B hybrids on Rule 3:36 (2000) paid off large dividends by the time of Ja Rule's next album, Pain Is Love. A day didn't pass between the release of the two albums when Ja Rule's voice couldn't be heard on urban radio, and at the time of Pain Is Love's release in October 2001, he had not one but two singles getting nonstop airplay: "Livin' It Up" and "I'm Real," the latter a Jennifer Lopez song featuring him as a guest rapper. It should be no surprise then to discover that Pain Is Love follows the same formula that had made Rule 3:36 such a commercial success: craft some radio-friendly crossover singles, often featuring pretty young female R&B singers as romantic counterpoints, and then fill out the album with hardcore rap, often featuring Murder Inc.'s roster of secondary rappers, to sustain Ja Rule's thug reputation. Actually, this formula is fine-tuned on Pain Is Love to account for some exceptions -- for instance, the lead single, "Livin' It Up," interpolates Stevie Wonder's "Do I Do" for its crossover-R&B aspect, while the title track recycles an old, generally unheard 2Pac verse to great effect -- and a significantly more balanced album is the result. Plus, there's enough strong material here to encourage full-album listening, as the crossover singles no longer stand out apart from the hardcore rap filler to the degree that they did on Rule 3:36.
© Jason Birchmeier /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 01:06:47
- Main artists: Ja Rule
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Def Jam Recordings
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 2001 UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2001 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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