| Product Summary | | Label: Mca/mca Nashville/mercury Nash | | UPC: 00008811302825 | | Release Date: 9/24/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 60569207 | | Item#: MK2YCJ | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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Song Listing
| Disc 1 | | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Brown Sugar (Extra Sweet) | ------ | | 2. Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip Hop) | ------ | | 3. Bring Your Heart | ------ | | 4. Brown Sugar (Raw) | ------ | | 5. Easy Conversation | ------ | | 6. It's Going Down | ------ | | 7. Breakdown | ------ | | 8. You Make Life So Good | ------ | | 9. Time After Time | ------ | | 10. Paid in Full ~ (7 Minutes of Madness | ------ | | 11. No One Knows Her Name | ------ | | 12. Act Too (Love of My Life) ~ (Remix, remix) | ------ | | 13. Never Been | ------ | | 14. Brown Sugar (Fine) | ------ | | 15. You Changed ~ (bonus track) | ------ |
| | From the year’s hottest film release, comes the ultimate musical love letter to hip-hop. Brown Sugar Original Music From The Motion Picture boasts an
all-star line-up including Erykah Badu, Mary J.Blige, Common, Mos Def, The Roots, Jill Scott and more, with a collective star power exceeding 30 million in cumulative sales. The album features thirteen
tracks of new music, plus one classic.
Directed by Rick Famuyiwa (The Wood),the highly-acclaimed film stars Taye Diggs (How Stella Got Her
Groove Back, The Best Man)and Sanaa Lathan (Love & Basketball, Disappearing Acts, The Best Man).
It ’s a compelling and edgy story of friendship,faith and love amid the birth and rise of hip-hop music and culture.
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | "Love Of My Life (An Ode To Hip)" (Erykah Badu & Common) won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best R&B Song. | | "Love Of My Life (An Ode To Hip)" (Erykah Badu & Common) was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Urban/Alternative Performance and Best Song Written For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media. | | Personnel: Erykah Badu (vocals); James Poyser (keyboards, drum programming); Rashad Smith (drum programming). | | Audio Mixers: Jason Goldstein; Hi-Tek; Bob Power. | | Audio Remixers: Raine Shine; Scott Storch. | | Recording information: Teklab, Inc., Cincinnati, OH. | | Unknown Contributor Role: Rashad Smith. | | Arranger: Hi-Tek. | | The soundtrack album to the 2002 film about a hip-hop-centered romance has 15 songs by a wide variety of the music's veterans and more recently emerged talents. Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, and Eric B. & Rakim are some of the better-known contributors on a compilation that mixes neo-soul and harder hip-hop styles. In the neo-soul bag, there's Jill Scott, whose romantic "Easy Conversation" is one of the better selections. Jazz/R&B crossover singer Cassandra Wilson covers Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time," while the Roots offer some of the harder beats and scratching on the remix of "Act Too (Love of My Life)." On the whole it's an adequate sampler of some early 21st century hip-hop sounds, leaning toward the more pop-accessible segment of the genre. ~ Richie Unterberger | | For a film described as the African-American "When Harry Met Sally," this movie's music producers tapped into a wellspring of neo-soul rather than the Sinatra-like flavorings of Harry Connick, Jr. The result is BROWN SUGAR, a soundtrack packed with a dizzying array of talent drawn from the worlds of soul, hip-hop, and jazz. Among the many highlights are the sensual Erykah Badu/Common duet "Love Of My Life (An Ode To Hip Hop)," prodded along by light beats and feather-light organ fills, Angie Stone's sanctified "Bring Your Heart" and Jill Scott's wispy "Easy Conversation." | | Other tasty sounds include the Roots' hard-edged remix of "Act Too (Love Of My Life)," Eric B. and Rakim's classic "Paid In Full (7 Minutes Of Madness Coldcut Remix)," and Cassandra Wilson's delicate cover of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time." Most impressive is renaissance man Mos Def, who takes time off from starring in the movie to appear on three versions of the title cut: a juicy "Extra Sweet" duet with Faith Evans, a jittery "Raw" take with Talib Kweli (aka Black Star), and a bouncy "Fine" solo turn. |
Producer: Chief X-Cel; David Gates; Eric B.; Erykah Badu; Tom Sarig; Kenny Whitehead; Hi-Tek; Henri Charlemagne; James Poyser; Kanye West; Missy Elliott; Andre Harris; Angie Stone; Rahsaan Patterson; Rakim; Raphael Saadiq; Scott Storch; Vidal Davis; Barry Cole |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/24/2002 | | Original Release Date : 2002 | | Catalog ID : 113028 | | Label : MCA Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00008811302825 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Entertainment Weekly (10/18/02, p.115)
- "...A bounty of warm neo-soul and cool rap..." - Rating: BVibe (11/02, p.158)
- "...This wholehearted collection offers enough good music to keep on keepin' on..." |
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