Product DescriptionIn a lot of musical imaginations, Lyfe Jennings' The Phoenix will occupy a space a few slots up from the Hustle & Flow soundtrack. As he proved on the prelude to this disc--the swift-selling, hype-generating Lyfe 268-192--he's an urban poet with an unsparing eye. When he's not laying out his grit-laden artistic process in what seems like a dozen spoken-word interludes, he's singing it as he sees it. On "S-E-X," that vision includes a sensitive-minded, daddy-like plea for abstinence among teen-age girls punched up by the sexy-sounding Lala Brown, and on the thump-thump slo-mo thrill ride "Ghetto Superman" it includes a pitiful remembrance of things past ("We grew up in the gutter eatin' peanut butter sandwiches/With no jam"). Part Curtis Mayfield, part Donny Hathaway, part Kanye West, and part John Legend, Jennings is determined to offer a long, tall drink to the spiritually dehydrated--he's massively musical (check his gentle acoustic guitar on "Down Here, Up There" and the raw soul of "The River") and enormously ambitious: It's no accident that The Phoenix plays like scuffed-up, 21st-century epic poetry in places. Real-world R&B hasn't reached this far in a long time. --Tammy La Gorce - Track Listings : Disc 1
- Intro
- Interlude
- Slow Down
- Interlude
- Goodbye
- Interlude
- Let's Stay Together
- Interlude
- Biggie Nigga
- Interlude
- Ghetto Superman
- Interlude
- S.E.X.
- Interlude
- Down Here, Up There
- Interlude
- The River
- Interlude
- Still Here
- Interlude
- More Than A Girl
- Interlude
- Stingy
- Interlude
- Radio
- Interlude
- Keep Ya Head Up
- I'll Always Love You
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