Nicolay - Here
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Artist: NicolayEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Single
CD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Music Label: Bbe / Beat Gen
Soundtracks:
- Here (Intro)
- I Love The Way You Love feat. Darien Brockington
- I Am The Man feat. Black Spade
- Give Her Everything
- What It Used To Be feat. Wiz Khalifa
- Good Days Are Gone feat. Black Spade
- Let It Shine For Me
- The End Is Near feat. Black Spade
- Adore feat. YahZarah
- Here (Outro)
- My Story feat. Kay and Sy Smith
Music reviews of Here
Music Review: Nicolay is my favorite producer, but...
Rating: 4 Stars
It pains me to give this album four stars, but I can't legitimately give it more. Nicolay is - hands down - my favorite producer, if not my favorite musician to come along in years. The Foreign Exchange album is one of my top three favorite albums ever made. Nicolay isn't a producer in my eyes, he's a composer. His music is beautiful, soulful, touching, head-nodding, superb on every level, and above and beyond almost anyone in hip-hop now-a-days. "Connected" is the perfect album for me, since Phonte - next to Talib Kweli - is my favorite emcee, so of course, I wasn't expecting this album to be quite to that caliber, but I wasn't doubting. I have unlimited faith in Nicolay's music and his taste in emcees, but "Here" falls short for one specific reason: on "Connected," Phonte's lyrics were beautiful and intelligent, and complimented Nicolay's production to a T. On "Here," Nicolay enlists a roster of emcees not on the same level. I don't mean to knock on Black Spade or any of the emcees on this album, but the tracks lyrically are much weaker than I expected. "I Am The Man" is blessed with a great beat, and yet the lyrics are often simple and shallow. On track 8, "End Is Near," I was incredibly disappointed. Black Spade kicks some rhymes that sound like a bad page from 50 Cent's notebook. "Good Days Are Gone" is lyrically passable at best, nothing extraordinary, and "What It Used To Be" is, while very catchy, certainly not a classic. I expected "My Story" to be a very strong lyrical song, and again, the rhyming abilities of the emcees fell just short. Of all the rap songs on this album, however, "What It Used To Be" and "My Story" are the strongest. Ironically, it's Nicolay's tracks that stand by themselves, and his r&b songs that score big numbers here. "Give Her Everything" is amazingly addicting and lilting. "I Love The Way You Love" is the next best song on the album, boasting Darien Brockington on vocals with some blissfully heartfelt and intelligent songwriting. Props to him. Yahzarah wins as well on "Adore," using her trademark high-pitched vocals to play harmony to a beautiful Nicolay track.
I'm one of Nicolay's biggest fans, or at least self-proclaim myself to be, and so I hate to give any album he's been a part of 4 stars, but I look at the roster of emcees he's affiliated with and wonder why didn't enlist more of them for his album? Phonte? Big Pooh? Supastition? Nicolay is incredibly sought after as a producer now-a-days, and I can't help but feel that he's been pressured to go a little too mainstream with his music, and has forgotten that it was his heartfelt music coupled with soulful rhymes that won people's hearts in the firstplace. HOWEVER, I do NOT mean to cast a bad opinion on this album. I gave it four stars and it earned each and every one of them. Even on songs like "End Is Near," which I don't like, the production is solid and there are portions where the lyrics come through. I still recommend this album. The songs that are good on hear border on classics. This is more of an appeal to Nicolay himself than anything. I just hate to see his music going mainstream. Nevertheless, this album is worth every penny, and I highly recommend it. There's something here for everyone, and no matter WHAT emcees Nicolay may have brought on board, it can certainly be said that Nicolay himself is still at the very top of his game.
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