Augmented with an appearance by Nigerian highlife singer Adekunle Gold, it sounds blissed-out and adoring, but never sickly. Happily, Antidote swerves the worst excesses. As everyone knows, the subject of new parenthood is a treacherous one for songwriters to essay: perhaps all the disturbed sleep knackers your artistic judgement, and when even someone as lavishly talented as Stevie Wonder at his early-1970s peak momentarily slips and burps up the ghastly IsnвЂ™t She Lovely? in delighted response to his newborn, you know youвЂ™re in difficult territory. The rest of the album offers hints about why Nao might have taken a more sanguine view of 2020вЂ™s events and their impact on everyday life, dealing both with exhaustion on the self-explanatory Burn Out (the singer recently revealed she suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome) and the birth of her first child during lockdown. Amid the lyrics about hope coming someday and the desire to вЂњsmoke it out until it fades awayвЂќ, Nao suggests lockdown may have had another side to it: a pause that enabled people to вЂњknow what matters to you вЂ¦ a moment just to think about all that is youвЂќ. Its sound isnвЂ™t sad or claustrophobic or wistful but airy and dreamlike, almost euphoric: high keyboards arcing around a misty guitar figure and sumptuous backing vocals. The first words that come out of her mouth on this album are: вЂњChange came like a hurricane, 2020 hit us differently.вЂќ But And Then Life Was BeautifulвЂ™s opening title track offers an interesting take on recent events. So it is with the third album by Neo Joshua, or Nao as she prefers to be known. ItвЂ™s a phenomenon that shows no signs of abating, and why would it? A huge proportion of the new albums released in 2021 will have been made during the pandemic, and it would take a pretty superhuman effort to avoid the circumstances of their creation seeping into their contents. Over the last 18 months, weвЂ™ve had everything from heartstring-tugging fundraising tributes to essential workers, to Eminem dutifully comparing himself to coronavirus, to the miserable sound of Van Morrison metaphorically marching through London with a homemade placard lambasting Chris Whitty. The song was nominated at the 2000 Grammy Awards for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, but lost to The Roots and Erykah Badu's 'You Got Me'.N o sooner had lockdown begun than the musical responses came. It reached number six on the UK single charts in March 2000. It peaked at number 93 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 32 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks and reached number 11 on the Hot Rap Singles. 'Still D.R.E.' was released as the lead single in October 1999. Other tracks 'Fuck You', 'Let's Get High', 'What's the Difference' and 'Xxplosive' were not officially released as singles but received some radio airplay which resulted in them charting in the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. Three singles were released from the album: 'Still D.R.E.', 'Forgot About Dre' and 'The Next Episode'. Defari, Xzibit, Knoc-turn'al, Time Bomb, King Tee, MC Ren, Kokane & Jake Steed 2001 exhibits an expansion on Dre's debut G-funk sound and contains gangsta rap themes such as violence, promiscuity, drug use, street gangs, sex, hate and crime.ДЈ. Dre and Mel-Man, as well as Lord Finesse, and features several guest contributions from fellow American rappers such as The D.O.C., Hittman, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Xzibit, Eminem, and Nate Dogg. It was released on November 16, 1999, by Interscope Records as the follow-up to his 1992 debut album The Chronic. 2001 is the second studio album by American rapper and producer Dr.

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