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Since hooking up with puff Daddy and Trackmasterz on 1997's Anytime, R&B smoothie Brian McKnight has stuck to the same pattern: He writes, produces and plays on an LP's length of slow jams but also enlists hip-hop producers to spice up each CD with club-friendly potential singles. Little has changed on his eighth album. The Buffalo-born singer gets points for using real drums, bass and guitar on cozy, nostalgic tracks such as the ballad "What We Do Here," but his lyrics remain rote, his melodies lazy. McKnight's groovy side is represented by two commendable cuts, "Whatcha Gonna Do," with Juvenile and Akon, and "She." But the gospel finale, "Me and You," sounds like a late submission to last year's abysmal tribute to The Passion of the Christ. For the most part, this reliably cautious Gemini shows only one side to his musical personality: the businessman.
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Track List
- Stay With Him (Intro)
- What We Do Here
- Everytime You Go Away
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Grown Man Business (track not available in Rhapsody)
- Everything I Do
- Here With Me
- All Over Now
- She
- Stay
- Come Back
- What You Gonna Do
- Your Song
- Me and You
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