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Still climbing in 2019, Anderson .Paak won a Best Rap Performance Grammy award for "Bubblin" and returned in April with Ventura, at which point his preceding Oxnard wasn't even six months old. Although Oxnard and Ventura were laid down during the same sessions, the latter is neither leftovers nor a patchwork of adequate material that didn't fit on the former. Rather remarkably, it's the self-termed rap singer's tightest and most concentrated album yet. There's no space allowed for interlude hijinks or wayward diversions. Moreover, R&B is favored to such an extent that Paak delivers what could be called host verses on only a couple tracks, and gets only one guest verse, a tongue-twisting, side-splitting contribution from André 3000. Paak devotes most of these 40 minutes to relating the ups and downs of intimacy. On the early-'70s throwback "Come Home," he drops to his knees with a sideways glance to humorously critique the condition of contemporary R&B ("No one even begs anymore!"), then gets Motown legend Smokey Robinson to assist on "Make It Better," another misty number with aching emotion. Paak uncannily matches up with a posthumous Nate Dogg vocal on "What Can We Do," but what truly elevates the album is its sequence of songs with Lalah Hathaway, Brandy, Jazmine Sullivan, and Sonyae Elise, collaborations laying out scenes of co-dependency and contentment with a dangerous dalliance somewhere between. The women's presence as singers and co-writers also helps balance out some of Paak's candidly disparaging and lecherous behavior. Side two does feature consecutive tracks that aren't libidinal, yet the emotions are as mixed. "Yada Yada" catches Paak at boiling point, boastful about his come-up and the benefits of stardom but acidic toward the industry while regretting time away from his son. A righteous anger bubbles under the surface of "King James," an all-for-one motivational jam that acknowledges the activism of namesake LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick. From the lithe and rich basslines to sweetened strings -- among the many elements courtesy of Paak's Free Nationals live band and other long-term associates -- the album is a treat to the ears. It's unmistakably in the tradition of soul and funk older than the artist himself, but could not have been made any earlier than the late 2010s.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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André Benjamin, Composer - Sir, Background Vocals - Dr. Dre, Mixer - Jairus Mozee, Composer, Producer, Guitar, Bass - BJ The Chicago Kid, Background Vocals - Focus..., Mixer - Ken Oriole, Engineer - The Regiment, Horn - Brandon Anderson, Composer - Anderson .Paak, Producer, Drums, MainArtist - Kadhja Bonet, String Arranger - Eric González, AssistantEngineer - Jhair Lazo, Engineer - Lola A. Romero, Engineer, AssistantEngineer - Norelle, Additional Vocals - Vicky Farewell Nguyen, Piano, Background Vocals
© 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved. ℗ 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved.
WILLIAM ROBINSON, Composer - FREDWRECK, Producer, Guitar, Keyboards - The Alchemist, Producer, Drums - Dr. Dre, Mixer - Farid Nassar, Composer - Alan Maman, Composer - Jose Rios, Bass - Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Composer, Strings - Focus..., Mixer - Brandon Anderson, Composer - Anderson .Paak, Producer, MainArtist - Kelsey Gonzalez, Bass - Jhair Lazo, Engineer, Strings - Lola A. Romero, Engineer, Strings - Alana Chenevert, Composer
© 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved. ℗ 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved.
Dr. Dre, Mixer - Jose Rios, Guitar - Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Strings - Dem Jointz, Producer, Background Vocals - Focus..., Mixer - Dan Edinberg, Composer, Bass - Pomo, Producer, Keyboards - Brandon Anderson, Composer - Anderson .Paak, Producer, Drums, MainArtist - Vicky Nguyen, Composer - Kelsey Gonzalez, Composer, Guitar, Bass - David Pimentel, Composer - Dwayne Abernathy Jr., Composer - Danny McKinnon, Composer, Guitar - Eric González, AssistantEngineer - Jhair Lazo, Engineer - Ron Avant, Additional Keyboards - Callum Connor, Drums - Lola A. Romero, Engineer - Justin Dicenzo, Strings - Matthew Merisola, Composer - Marcus Paul, Horn - Vicky Farewell Nguyen, Producer, Additional Keyboards - Stalone, Background Vocals - The Free Nationals, Producer
© 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved. ℗ 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved.
M. Henderson, Composer - Dr. Dre, Mixer - MeLL, Additional Production, Drum Programmer - Focus..., Mixer - Brandon Anderson, Composer - Anderson .Paak, Additional Production, MainArtist - Vicky Nguyen, Composer - Kelsey Gonzalez, Composer, Producer, Guitar, Bass - Jhair Lazo, Engineer - Lola A. Romero, Engineer, AssistantEngineer - Norelle, Additional Vocals - Vicky Farewell Nguyen, Producer - Durand Bernard, Additional Vocals
© 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved. ℗ 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved.
Jazmine Sullivan, Composer - Dr. Dre, Mixer - Focus..., Mixer - Pomo, Producer, Synth Bass - Brandon Anderson, Composer - Anderson .Paak, Producer, Drums, MainArtist - David Pimentel, Composer - Danny McKinnon, Composer, Guitar - Jhair Lazo, Engineer - Lola A. Romero, Engineer, AssistantEngineer
© 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved. ℗ 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved.
Bernard Edwards, Jr., Composer - Dr. Dre, Mixer - Focus..., Mixer - Brandon Anderson, Composer - Anderson .Paak, MainArtist - Jhair Lazo, Engineer - Lola A. Romero, Engineer - Matthew Merisola, Composer - Vicky Farewell Nguyen, Background Vocals - Kiefer Shackelford, Composer - Callum Connor & Kiefer, Producer
© 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved. ℗ 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved.
FREDWRECK, Percussion - Sir, Additional Vocals - Dr. Dre, Mixer - Focus..., Mixer - Brandon Anderson, Composer - Anderson .Paak, Drums, MainArtist - Jhair Lazo, Engineer - Lola A. Romero, Engineer - Matthew Merisola, Composer - Paul Castelluzzo, Guitar - Kiefer Shackelford, Composer - Alekos Syropoulos, Composer, Tenor Saxophone, Horns Arranger - Callum Connor & Kiefer, Producer
© 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved. ℗ 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved.
Sir, Background Vocals - Dr. Dre, Mixer - Sonyae Elise, Composer - Jose Rios, Composer, Guitar - Focus..., Mixer - Cocoa Sarai, Background Vocals - Brandon Anderson, Composer - Anderson .Paak, Producer, MainArtist - Kelsey Gonzalez, Composer, Bass - Jhair Lazo, Engineer - Ron Avant, Composer, Keyboards, Vocoder - Tia Myrie, Composer - Lola A. Romero, Engineer, AssistantEngineer - Luke Campioleta, Engineer
© 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved. ℗ 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved.
Brandy Norwood, Composer - Dr. Dre, Mixer - Focus..., Mixer - Pomo, Producer, Keyboards, Bass - Brandon Anderson, Composer - Anderson .Paak, MainArtist - David Pimentel, Composer - Danny McKinnon, Guitar - Jhair Lazo, Engineer - Lola A. Romero, Engineer - Zumo Kollie, AssistantEngineer - Olivia Braga, Background Vocals
© 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved. ℗ 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved.
Pharrell Williams, Composer, Additional Vocals - FREDWRECK, Additional Percussion - Pharrell, Producer - Terrace Martin, Horn - Dr. Dre, Mixer - Mike Larson, Engineer - Focus..., Mixer - Brandon Anderson, Composer - Anderson .Paak, MainArtist - Thomas Cullison, AssistantEngineer - Jhair Lazo, Engineer - Lola A. Romero, Engineer, AssistantEngineer - Marcus Paul, Horn
© 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved. ℗ 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved.
Nate Dogg, Composer - Erick Coomes, Bass - FREDWRECK, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Rhodes Piano - Maurice Brown, Horns Arranger - Dr. Dre, Mixer - Farid Nassar, Composer - Chris Gray, Trumpet - Focus..., Mixer - Quentin Gilkey, Engineer - Brandon Anderson, Composer - Anderson .Paak, Additional Drums, MainArtist - Kelsey Gonzalez, Additional Bass - J.P. Floyd, Trombone - Jhair Lazo, Engineer - Ron Avant, Additional Piano - Lola A. Romero, Engineer - Vic Luevanos, Engineer - Adam Turchin, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone - Lola Romero, Engineer
© 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved. ℗ 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved.
Album review
Still climbing in 2019, Anderson .Paak won a Best Rap Performance Grammy award for "Bubblin" and returned in April with Ventura, at which point his preceding Oxnard wasn't even six months old. Although Oxnard and Ventura were laid down during the same sessions, the latter is neither leftovers nor a patchwork of adequate material that didn't fit on the former. Rather remarkably, it's the self-termed rap singer's tightest and most concentrated album yet. There's no space allowed for interlude hijinks or wayward diversions. Moreover, R&B is favored to such an extent that Paak delivers what could be called host verses on only a couple tracks, and gets only one guest verse, a tongue-twisting, side-splitting contribution from André 3000. Paak devotes most of these 40 minutes to relating the ups and downs of intimacy. On the early-'70s throwback "Come Home," he drops to his knees with a sideways glance to humorously critique the condition of contemporary R&B ("No one even begs anymore!"), then gets Motown legend Smokey Robinson to assist on "Make It Better," another misty number with aching emotion. Paak uncannily matches up with a posthumous Nate Dogg vocal on "What Can We Do," but what truly elevates the album is its sequence of songs with Lalah Hathaway, Brandy, Jazmine Sullivan, and Sonyae Elise, collaborations laying out scenes of co-dependency and contentment with a dangerous dalliance somewhere between. The women's presence as singers and co-writers also helps balance out some of Paak's candidly disparaging and lecherous behavior. Side two does feature consecutive tracks that aren't libidinal, yet the emotions are as mixed. "Yada Yada" catches Paak at boiling point, boastful about his come-up and the benefits of stardom but acidic toward the industry while regretting time away from his son. A righteous anger bubbles under the surface of "King James," an all-for-one motivational jam that acknowledges the activism of namesake LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick. From the lithe and rich basslines to sweetened strings -- among the many elements courtesy of Paak's Free Nationals live band and other long-term associates -- the album is a treat to the ears. It's unmistakably in the tradition of soul and funk older than the artist himself, but could not have been made any earlier than the late 2010s.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:39:33
- Main artists: Anderson .Paak
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Aftermath
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved. ℗ 2020 Aftermath Entertainment, exclusively distributed by 12Tone Music, LLC. All rights reserved.
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