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This record is just a party from beginning to end.
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Without being defined by any particular rhetorical or ideological position, he's made a breezy but severely eclectic record.
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Beenie Man's smooth adaptability works against him, as the 17 tracks almost inevitably contain a few less than stellar ones. For the most part, however, Art and Life has more good than bad.
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More than justifies the hype.
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His latest finds the Jamaican lyrical wizard working Rasta magic on a humorous pastiche of sexual posturing and socially conscious manifestoes, all nailed down on a canvas of ass-shakin' ragga, hip-hop, reggae and dancehall jams.
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The result is entertaining but so bound by the requirements of Jamaican and American clichés that there's not much room left for his own personality to come through.
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On Art and Life, Beenie's lyrical flow is unstoppable. He unleashes some of his sharpest and funniest rhymes over slickly-produced tracks aimed squarely for hip-hop radio airplay.
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Diasporic dancehall reggae, spruced up and polished around the edges, but essentially retaining the artist's signature style.
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