Back Of My Lac : J. Holiday : Review : Rolling Stone

When it's on, the debut from D.C. native J. Holiday offers some sweet, passive pleasures. For a handful of hot cuts, Holiday turns out brash, hook-centric R&B that complements silky singing with some fine beats: The bumping "Ghetto" underpins Holiday's insistent sermon on underclass misery with Santana guitar, congas and lite funk, and "Thug Commandments" is an ultrawarm thing with an ace chorus and D'Angelo-worthy falsettos. Then there's the single "Bed" (as in, "I'm-a put you to"), a sex jam so gleefully horny, and hooky, that it ends up charming. So it's too bad that Back of My Lac sinks into slow, sexy tedium: Bland love odes like "Be With Me" sound like they came from the same assembly-line mill that turned out T-Pain's lesser cuts, which is pretty lesser. By Track Twelve, Holiday's praising a hottie who's got "the body of a call girl." How's that for running short on good ideas?

CHRISTIAN HOARD

(Posted: Oct 4, 2007)

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Review 1 of 2

5of 5 Stars

Christian Hoard, you sir, have popped one too many pills. Do you even own an R&B album? J. Holiday's debut is hands down, the best post-70's R&B album since D'Angelo came out with Brown Sugar in '95. To Mr. Hoard's editor: perhaps you shouldn't allow the man to review this particular genre because Hr. Hoard obviously isn't informed enough to comment on it.

Feb 17, 2008 23:27:10

Review 2 of 2

5of 5 Stars

I dont own a lot of cds and i must say this is one i bought. i loved it, it also goes into depth about life in D.C. and the struggle and also just about blowing off steam and chillin. i pretty much do not think it can get much better than that. J.Holiday is part eritrean too!-big ups to my habesha brotha...he did his thanggg!

Jan 16, 2008 18:02:10

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