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- Summary: The artist currently known as Diddy's first release in five years features production by will.i.am, Pharrell, Just Blaze and Kanye West, with a huge roster of contributors including Christina Aguilera, Brandy, Jamie Foxx, Big Boi, Nas, Mary J. Blige, and Fergie.
- Record Label: Bad Boy
- Genre(s): Rap
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Top Track
Through The Pain | |
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[Diddy:] Can You Feel Me? Can You Touch Me? Can You Trust Me? Can You Love Me? I Need You Rio... Talk To Em' [Mario:] Could Tell How You looked... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 19
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Mixed: 10 out of 19
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Negative: 2 out of 19
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All told, the number of memorable hooks on display here is surprising.
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Press Play has something for most everyone: street raps, club jams, glossy R&B.
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It's when Diddy adopts the role he's really good at, the executive producer - bringing together and overseeing the real talent - for the closing stages, that "Press Play" moves from being another chaotic and bloated stab at a rap career to being something approaching a great album.
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BlenderAn album that begins as a me-against-the-world celebration of self ends as a somber plea for emotional wholeness. [Dec 2006, p.173]
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You could argue the all-star assemblage of "Press Play" - Diddy's first solo set in half a decade - would have been even stronger without the auteur's direct involvement, and certainly without his pedestrian rhymes about love and life.
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Diddy still doesn't have an original bone in his body or a fresh idea in his head, and he relies on his previously successful formulas... but damn if it doesn't actually work.
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The New York TimesThis is a garish, puzzling album, and it isn’t the sort of CD people pick up when they want to explain what’s great about hip-hop. [12 Oct 2006]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 26
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Mixed: 2 out of 26
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Negative: 12 out of 26
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lucapOct 24, 2006
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Jay-ZTOct 18, 2006
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YoungSilanceOct 23, 2006
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VLOct 21, 2006ain't hip-hop no more
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RobTOct 18, 2006
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TiffanyOct 23, 2006Pretty bad
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GLCOct 16, 2006Oh... HELL no!
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