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Like I said, shits kinda all over the place but it works as each attempt at a different genre is done by dudes who know that genre in and out.ДЄnd did I mention the techno songs yet? More on that later. Everything I Love has Kanye West essentially just remaking the beat from Common's 'The Corner'. Come To Me, Tell Me, Wanna Move and Diddy Rock all give you the uptempo club banger feel, all of em could easily have been on the new Justin Timberlake album. Hold Up samples some sad as fuck sounding chanting kids, and some low humming that makes the track feel eerily reminiscent of old old blues or negro spirituals. We Gon Make It and I Am have that 'Encore'/'December 4' feel that makes you believe dudes climbed mountains and killed a dragon to get into the booth and spit for you. The production is kinda all over the place but in all the right ways. With production from the Neptunes, Just Blaze, Kanye West, Rich Harrison and Will.I.Am (what rock did this dude crawl out from under to become one of the illest producers doin it right now?) there's no way this album could be anything less than stellar. The beats on this album are top notch, hands down.

DIDDY PRESS PLAY ALBUM FULL

It'd appear that Puff is investing all that Sean John and 'All About The Benjamins Remix' money into making dope albums and thats a business plan I can full support in these fiscally uncertain times. All that put together gives us an album that is quite a bit more than the some of its parts. I don't know if that means raps gone soft or if Puffy sold one of his kid's soul to the devil for some shine or maybe, just maybe your boy Diddy got good somewhere along the line? Really it's more like Diddy has a shitload of money, an impressive vision and a good case of egomania. Press Play may make you dance at a party but you may wanna keep pressing fast-forward while you're playing this anywhere else.Diddy has created one of the better hip hop/dance albums of this year. Even as a producer, he always CO-PRODUCED many songs, hardly ever by himself, which is also the case on this album. His best albums were when he had a Family (1997's No Way Out, 2001's The Saga Continues) and his worst album was when he was by himself (1999's Forever). It's no surprise that Diddy gets by with a little help from his friends this time around. You can't go wrong with that combination. But one surprising gem is 'Everything I Love' where Diddy shares the mic with Nas over one of Kanye West's most exciting beats while Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo sings the hook. Blige on the Amerie-esque 'Making it Hard' (well, it was produced by Rich Harrison-man, no wonder why Amerie doesn't work with him anymore), Brandy on 'Thought You Said' and Keri on 'After Love'. The latter half of the album has R&B artists dominating the songs like Keyshia Cole on 'Last Night', Mary J.

When Diddy lends the spotlight to other artists is when the album shines. He should at least try to stick with one style of rapping, especially since his rhyming is so criticized. You get the 'cipher' rhymes for the backpackers on the Havoc-produced 'The Future' and then you get some come-on stuff on the corny 'Tell Me'. Instead, he aims to be many different things to different people. Even though Diddy never claimed to be the next Rakim, he should at least keep things a little interesting. It's too bad that not much time went into his rhymes. You can tell that a lot of time went into making this album by the production, the album sleeve design, and the heavy promotion (by Bad Boy standards, that is: only Biggie got that kind of promotion while artists like Craig Mack, Black Rob, New Edition, etc. Well, judging by Press Play debuting at #1, the public expects it. But those songs are from ten years ago at least so the question is that can Diddy still make you dance. The general consensus is that Sean 'Diddy' Combs can't rap and it's obvious that he don't write his own stuff ever since he said those infamous words on 2001's 'Bad Boy for Life': 'Don't matter if I write rhymes/I write checks.' But none of that really mattered when the 'Benjamins' remix or 'Can't Nobody Hold Me Down' came on because most people were on the floor dancing.

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