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L.V. (from South Central Cartel) - I AM L.V.
TIGHT WEST COAST R&B CD !!!
Release date: May 7, 1996 Label: Tommy Boy Music LTD
1. Throw Your Hands Up (Treach Version) (feat. Treach of Naughty By Nature) (Talk Box: T. Mason) 2. The "G" Within (Talk Box: T. Mason) 3. The Wrong Come Up (feat. Evil Side G's) 4. Take A Ride 5. Gangsta's Boogie (Barr 9 Version) 6. Crazy Little G's (Part 1) 7. Crazy Little G's (Part 2) 8. Gangsta's Paradise (L.V. Version) 9. Fire From The Gun 10. Cool Out 11. I Am L.V. (B.Voc. Montell Jordan & S.Crawford) 12. Hey Love 13. It's Wet 14. Heaven Must Be Like This 15. Just A Little Something 16. Gangsta's Boogie (Prode'je Version)
Background Vocals by: J. Hodge, Tamaira, Bokie, Harmony, D. Duckett, Blue.
Producers: DJ Moe & Jay Supreme (Barr 9 Productions), Prode'je, Doug Rasheed, Montell Jordan, S.Crawford, T.Potts.
Album Review Husky vocalist L.V. first entered the ears of the world alongside his South Central homeboy Coolio on the rapper's monster 1995 single "Gangsta's Paradise." With that song, interpolated from an old Stevie Wonder gem and layered with L.V.'s preacher-man chorus and buttery refrain, the pair was onto something good--reworkings of classic soul and R&B into radio-friendly hip-hop--which Coolio exploited further on his album. This formula gets another workout on the first half of L.V.'s debut solo shot, I Am L.V. The singer turns replayed bits of songs from the O'Jays, Isaac Hayes, and Al Hudson into modern soul music with a retro feel and a smooth West Coast hip-hop heart. With wah-wah and talkbox effects, flute and horn work, and soaring vocals, songs like "Fire From the Gun," "Gangsta's Boogie," and "Throw Your Hands Up" owe more to classics by Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, and Parliament than to any recent R&B. And with his rapless version of "Gangsta's Paradise" and the praise-the-lording of "The 'G' Within," L.V. offers a conscious--even gospel--take on gangsta music. I Am L.V. takes a nosedive halfway through and changes into an entirely different, far less worthwhile record. The last six of the album's fourteen songs are original L.V. love ballads, and left without a blueprint from which to interpolate, the music degenerates into the same, vapid R&B pop that clutters so much of the urban airwaves.
Biography Best known as the soulful vocalist assisting Coolio on the smash single "Gangsta's Paradise," L.V. ("Large Variety") is perhaps even more remarkable for not only surviving being shot nine times at close range, spending eight months in the hospital and a year and a half in a wheelchair, but for recovering completely and being able to walk without a noticeable limp. L.V. grew up with a father who sang gospel music along with the radio every morning, and this helped hook him on singing. He won a high school talent contest by performing L.T.D.'s "Concentrate on You," joined the Los Angeles City College choir, and contributed R&B vocals to a neighborhood rap group, the South Central Cartel. Following his success with "Gangsta's Paradise," L.V. landed a fat contract with Tommy Boy Records, which released his debut album, I Am L.V., in late 1995. How Long followed five years later.
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