Now Or Never (Explicit Version) (1998) (Explicit Version )

Artist: Tela
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Label: Emd/virgin
UPC: 00724384658823
Release Date: 10/6/1998
Buy.com Sku: 60074616
Item#: MJJCSW
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Right Now ~ Tela
2. Too Slick - (interlude) ~ Tela
3. Make A Million - (featuring Scarface/The Hoodlumz) ~ Tela
4. Skit ~ Tela
5. Fallen Soldier ~ Tela
6. Still Man - (featuring Too Short) ~ Tela
7. Now Or Never ~ Tela
8. Bring Em Out ~ Tela
9. B.I.G.P.I.M.P.S.I.S.I. - (interlude) ~ Tela
10. These Ho. - (featuring Jazze Pha) ~ Tela
11. Why U ~ Tela
12. Money & The Power ~ Tela
13. Table Dance ~ Tela
14. Caesar Knight ~ Tela
15. Ceasar Knight ~ Tela
16. Touch Em - (interlude) ~ Tela
17. Now Or Never (They Wanna Kill Me) - (featuring Do Or Die) ~ Tela
18. Pimpin' Round Da World (Interlude) - (featuring Maz Julien aka Goldy) ~ Tela
19. These Hoes ~ Tela
20. Money & The Power - (featuring The Hoodlumz) ~ Tela



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Personnel: Tela, Stephanie Bolton, Mike Butler, Yamonika Carter, Stephen Foster, Sandra Hasselburg, Kelly Hurt, Max Julien, Marcus McRee, Jazze Pha, Dwayne Smith, Kirk Smothers, Zachary Wallace (vocals); J. Christopher Arrison, Mike Butler, Eric Gales, Anthony "Tony" Gentry, Neal Jones, Frank Ray Jr., Eric Lewis, Yvette Preyer, Frank Ray, The Hoodlumz, Too Short, Do Or Die, Big Zach.
Producers include: Tela, Jazze Pha, Sam Sneed, BJB, D.J. Jus Borne.
Engineers: Nil Jones, Kevin Haywood, Micah Harrison.
Recorded at House Of Blues, Memphis, Tennessee and Hippie House, Houston, Texas.
Tela's NOW OR NEVER is distinguished by the sophistication of it's production and the advanced conceptualism at work throughout its smoothly-flowing 20 (!) cuts. The range of musical styles drawn on for the tracks is remarkable; everything from funk and R&B to pop and even classical music is employed here. There's a grandness to the themes here, which raise the typical gangsta concerns to an almost mythical level. This grandiose approach doesn't mean that there's any immediacy or viscerality sacrificed on NOW OR NEVER, though--it resonates like the most street-credible hop-hop. Listening to what will surely be viewed as Tela's masterwork, the listener is transported into an almost cinematic experience; think of NOW OR NEVER as the greatest hip-hop film you never saw.

Musical Guests
Too Short
Jazze Pha
Scarface
The Hoodlumz
Do Or Die
Maz Julien aka Goldy

 
Compilation Appearances
Da Good Da Bad & Da Ugly (Explicit Version)
Thugged Out-Albulation (Explicit Version)
Down South Bounce Mix (Explicit Version)
Vol. 2-Down South Bounce (Explicit Version)
Greatest Hits (Bonus Tracks) (Explicit Version)
Suave House Compilation (Explicit Version)
Balls And My Word (Explicit Version)
Balls And My Word
Greatest Hits
Best Of Chopped &screwed
Crime Link (Explicit Version)
Best Of Rap-A-Lot(screwed & Chop
Balls And My Word(screwed & Chopped) (Explicit Version)
My Homies (Explicit Version)
Pimpalation (Explicit Version)
Pimpalation (Clean Version)
Pimpalation (Limited Edition) (Explicit Version)
We Are The South (greatest Hits)(Explicit Version)

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 10/06/1998
Original Release Date : 1998
Catalog ID : 46588
Label : Rap-A-Lot Records
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00724384658823

 
Professional Reviews
The Source (11/98, p.196)
- 3 Mics (out of 5)
- "...Packed with nine chapters of misogynist beats and rhymes, NOW OR NEVER is a musical guide to pimpin'....it's pretty solid..."

  
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