| Product Summary | | Label: BAD BOY RECORDS/WEA | | UPC: 00075678998348 | | Release Date: 4/8/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 204553164 | | Item#: M3M2U9 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Drop Dead - (Patois) ~ Elephant Man |  | | 2. Dem Nah Ready - (Patois) ~ Elephant Man | | | 3. Feel the Steam - (Patois, featuring Chris Brown) ~ Elephant Man | | | 4. Throw Your Hands Up - (Patois, featuring Rihanna) ~ Elephant Man | | | 5. Five-O - (featuring P. Diddy/Wyclef Jean) ~ Elephant Man | | | 6. Jump - (featuring Swizz Beatz) ~ Elephant Man | | | 7. Back That Thing on Me (Shake That) - (Patois, featuring Mario Winans) ~ Elephant Man | | | 8. Our World - (Patois, featuring Demarco) ~ Elephant Man | | | 9. Way We Roll, The - (Patois, remix, featuring Shaggy/Busta Rhymes) ~ Elephant Man | | | 10. Sweep the Floor - (Patois) ~ Elephant Man | | | 11. Body Talk - (Patois, featuring Kat DeLuna/Jha Jha) ~ Elephant Man | | | 12. Who Wanna - (Patois) ~ Elephant Man | | | 13. Five-O - (remix, Bonus Track, featuring Assassin/Wyclef Jean/Swizz Beatz/Yung Joc) ~ Elephant Man | | | 14. Untitled Track ~ Elephant Man | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | After a handful of delays, the big-eared one returns in a big way with his highly anticipated first release on Bad Boy Records, LET'S GET PHYSICAL. Under Sean "Diddy" Combs's hit-making tutelage, Elephant Man lets loose with hurricane-force lyrical fury over 14 high-energy, dancehall tracks that come courtesy of Swizz Beats, Stephen McGregor, Chris Chin, Harve Pierre, Willie Daniels, and Jah Jah, among others. LET'S GET PHYSICAL also features a long and eclectic guest list including Wyclef Jean, Chris Brown, Busta Rhymes, Demarco, Yung Joc, Swizz Beatz, Assassin, Kat Deluna, Mario Winans, Shaggy, Rihanna, and Diddy himself. | | The crimson-crowned Elephant Man represents a school of dancehall music that's so filled with Jamaican slang, so rough and raucous, and in many ways, so insider that his R&B or hip-hop crossover potential is limited. Give him a guest shot on your urban cut and he's a benefit, but it's only a matter of time before the man they call "Energy God" is going to need room to go supernova and into that chaotic dancehall style that makes him such a big star in his island homeland. Being that it's his first full-length for Sean "Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy label, Let's Get Physical could have been a diluted, overly manufactured album filled with dishonest attempts to get Elephant on urban radio. A credit to all parties involved, it isn't that at all. Chalk it up to Diddy's diverse taste -- his respect for Elephant seems as genuine as his fascination with Felix da Housecat and other left-field house music -- or chalk it up to the recent major-label shifting that allowed for Bad Boy and the veteran dancehall label VP to both be under the Warner Bros. umbrella. Let's Get Physical carries both labels' logos and freely strolls from polished duets with Chris Brown ("Feel the Steam") to mile-a-minute dancehall with no concessions for the weak hearted ("Drop Dead" or the JA hit "Gully Creep" which appears at the end of the album as a hidden track). The album kills when it skillfully mixes these two worlds, like when producer Swizz Beats releases an avalanche of gangsta drums and synths on a particularly over-the-top Elephant making "Jump" the unexpected edgy highlight of the album. With its infectious "Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!" hook and bold boasting from all involved, "Five-O" with Diddy and Wyclef is the more smoothed out but just as successful marrying of urban and reggae tones. The wicked live bass/live drums construction DJ Willie Daniels lays on the cut is a welcome sound when surrounded by so much synthetic ragga, while reggae singer DeMarco's guest shot on "Our World" further diversifies, offering an island flavor that hasn't yet crossed-over like the work of the album's other tropical guests, Rihanna and Shaggy. The only complaint to be made is that the album is definitely front-loaded -- leaving the second half to deal with all the B and B material. A little shuffling leaves the listener with a grand exercise in global dancehall blending and one of the most satisfying full-lengths in Elephant Man's sprawling catalog. ~ David Jeffries |
Musical Guests | | Chris Brown | | Rihanna | | P. Diddy | | Wyclef Jean | | Swizz Beatz | | Mario Winans | | Demarco | | Shaggy | | Busta Rhymes | | Kat DeLuna | | Jha Jha | | Assassin | | Yung Joc |
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