Naughty By Nature: Nineteen Naughty Nine: Nature's Fury : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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Since their Jackson 5-fueled hit "O.P.P." in 1991, Naughty by Nature - Treach, Vinnie and KayGee - have blended Top Forty grooves with hardcore-mix-tape subject matter. Eight years later, hip-hop has crossed over to them, from Puffy to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. On their latest studio album, Naughty don't tamper with the formula: "Live or Die" marries a gangsta's shakedown ("I thought I told you/Have my money/You got until sunrise/Or lose your life") to a soothing R&B melody; "Live Then Lay" turns a hustler's call to arms ("They'll lock your body/Ask Gotti/Grab your shotties/It's Illuminati") into a bouncing party hook. Elsewhere, they borrow funk lite from DeBarge and update classics from Tenor Saw, LL Cool J, Run-DMC and Public Enemy. With Treach's fleet-tongued poetry, Vin's straightforward boasts and KayGee's ball-bearing-smooth production, Nature's Fury is as charged as an electrical storm. (RS 812)

KRIS EX

(Posted: May 13, 1999)

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Intro
Ring The Alarm
Dirt All By My Lonely (track not available in Rhapsody)
Holiday - (featuring Phiness)
Live Or Die - (featuring Master P/Silkk The Shocker/Mystikal/Phiness) (track not available in Rhapsody)
On The Run (track not available in Rhapsody)
Radio - (featuring Rustic Overtones)
Jamboree - (featuring Zhane)
Would've Done The Same For Me - (featuring Coffee Brown)
Thugs & Hustlers - (featuring Mag/Krayzie Bone) (track not available in Rhapsody)
Work - (featuring Mag/Castro) (track not available in Rhapsody)
We Could Do It - (featuring Big Punisher)
Blues, The - (featuring Next)
Wicked Bounce
Live Then Lay - (featuring Phiness) (track not available in Rhapsody)
Shivers, The - (featuring Chain Gang Platune) (track not available in Rhapsody)