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With last summer's lovable nonsense thumper "Lip Gloss," Brooklyn's Lil
Mama emerged as a kind of mall-rat Missy Elliott: Her firm command of
beauty product — "I spice it up with the M.A.C-M.A.C
brushes/L'Oréal got them Watermelon Crushes" — could warm any
advertising copywriter's heart. But on her much-delayed debut, Lil Mama
is out to prove she's not just a commercial vessel. Naturally, there are
efforts to reapply the "Gloss": The rat-a-tat "Shawty Get Loose,"
co-starring fellow phenom Chris Brown and produced by T-Pain, will have
Mama's acolytes bouncing around Hot Topic. And "One Hit Wonder" is a
sharply self-aware dig at pop's shelf life. But the standout is
"L.I.F.E.," a raw recollection of an addled childhood ("I ain't got no
pictures of my mother/She was a crack fiend/Nothing like crack mother")
that proves there's more to her than bubble gum. Let's hope she's got a
few more years to give us the rest.
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Track List
- Intro (Main Version)
- Lip Gloss/ No Music (Main Version - clean)
- One Hit Wonder (Main Version)
- Get Loose Request (Main Version)
- Shawty Get Loose (Main Version)
- What It Is (Strike A Pose) (Main Version)
- G-Slide (Tour Bus) (Radio Version)
- Gotta Go Deeper Skit (Main Version)
- Stand Up (Main Version)
- L.I.F.E. (Main Version)
- College (Main Version)
- Emotional Rollercoasters Skit (Main Version)
- Broken Pieces (Main Version)
- Swim (Main Version)
- Truly In Love (Main Version)
- Look At My Life Skit (Main Version)
- Make It Hot (Main Version)
- Pick It Up (Main Version)
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dawg11 writes:
RS gave lil mama the same rating as Counting Crows...I like rap/hip-hop but I mean come on RS. Are they really equals?
Apr 23, 2008 22:37:55
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