| Product Summary | | Label: Bmg/arista/la Face | | UPC: 00730082608022 | | Release Date: 6/13/2000 | | Buy.com Sku: 60410428 | | Item#: MMMQWH | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 32608 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes ~ Original Soundtrack |  | | 2. Bad Man - R. Kelly ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 3. Up And Outta Here - R. Kelly ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 4. Do What I Gotta Do - Donell Jones ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 5. Rock Wit U - Alicia Keys ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 6. We Servin' - Big Gipp ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 7. Tough Guy - Outkast/UGK ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 8. 2 Glock 9's - T.I.P./Beanie Sigel ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 9. Summer Rain - Carl Thomas ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 10. Automatic - Sleepy Brown/Backbone/Big Rube ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 11. Pimp Sh*t - Too Short ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 12. Cheatin' - Liberty City ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 13. Fix Me - Parle'/Jadakiss/Eve ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 14. How You Want It? - Mil ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 15. Ain't Gonna See Tomorrow - Mystikal ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 16. My Lovin' Will Give You Something - Angie Stone ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 17. Serenata Negra - Fulanito ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| This soundtrack features a brand new version of "Theme from Shaft" by Isaac Hayes and music from artists R. Kelly, Donnell Jones, Big Gipp, Carl Thomas, Too $hort, Mystical, and Angie Stone.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Producers: Kawan "KP" Prather, Bill Stephney, Antonio "LA" Reid. | | Despite its codification into our collective pop culture consciousness, Isaac Hayes' "Theme From Shaft" is a highly original composition. It's been remade by Hayes himself for the remade Shaft film, and appropriately kicks off this collection of tunes from the movie by some of R&B's New Jacks. | | A diverse selection of artists encompass the collection, from lascivious soul stirrer R. Kelly to the rugged Latin hip-hop of Fulanito, along with many other noteworthy diversions that represent the many flavors of contemporary urban soul. Most of the material focuses on John Shaft's street smarts and bravado, or the film's pimps, hoes, and gangsta imagery. As expected, Southern hip-hop is well represented, with Outkast, Mystikal, and Big Gipp from Goodie Mob contributing. The tracks offer typically gritty observations on street life, over bleak, minor chords and busy percussion. T.I.P. featuring Beanie Sigel offers "2 Glock 9's," one of the soundtrack's most rugged grooves, a minimal, stripped-down drum break that stutters and skids backwards and forwards over a Notorious BIG vocal sample and is easily the eeriest track on the album. The only light relief is provided by Too $hort's "Pimp Sh*t," a humorous foray into playa politics. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 06/13/2000 | | Original Release Date : 2000 | | Catalog ID : 26080 | | Label : LaFace (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00730082608022 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Entertainment Weekly (6/23/00, pp.102-3)
- "...This is an arsenal of blaxploitation-funk homages from some of today's most affecting rap...and R&B acts..." - Rating: BCMJ (8/00, p.66)
- "...It might not be the 1971 all-Hayes classic, but Samuel L. Jackson on the cover bodes well for any soundtrack." Vibe (8/00, p.165)
- "...A reasonably hot summer soundtrack....Alicia Key's 'Rock Wit You' lives up to the original album: With Hayes himself providing string arrangements and getting ill on the Rhodes....it's ruggedly sexy..." Mojo (Publisher)
(10/00, p.100)
- "...The melodramatic strings, sleazy horns and wacca-wacca guitars are all present, but it still feels as ersatz as an old Top Of The Pops compilation album..." |
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