During hip-hop's reign at the top of the charts, a clever turn of catch phrase has often translated into multi-platinum sales, from "It's All About the Benjamins" to "Get Ur Freak On" to "Hot in Herre." Ginuwine's fourth album finds the R&B jack-of-all-trades attempting to get in on the game with tracks that mine urban lingo for potential hit combinations, from the golddigger dis track "Chedda Brings" to the club-life jam "Hell Yeah" to the partly self-explanatory "In Those Jeans" (as in "Is there any more room for me?"). As before, Ginuwine rises above most of his dozens of imitators in the contemporary R&B realm, with a set of productions -- from the returning Troy Oliver -- that fit his voice perfectly and rate as slightly edgier than the norm. Also unsurprising compared to his work from the past is Ginuwine exploring all aspects of love, moving from the explicitly carnal ("Sex," with Solé) to a poignantly paternal song ("Our First Born") within just a few minutes. After a parade of sexed-up R&B, though, it's refreshing to hit a pair of straight-ahead rap tracks near the end; Method Man lends his usual thug drawl to the excellent "Big Plans," while R. Kelly and Clipse add some spark to a remix of "Hell Yeah." ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
The Senior
03/25/2003 | Sony
All Music Guide Review
The Senior Track Listing
Credits of The Senior
- Donnie Lyle
- Guitar
- Michael Pickett
- Assistant
- Scott Storch
- Producer, Drum Programming
- Troy Taylor
- Arranger, Vocals (Background), Producer, Vocal Arrangement, Instrumentation
- David Betancourt
- Assistant
- Birdman
- Rap
- Ginuwine
- Main Performer
- Scott Kieklak
- Engineer, Mixing
- Rich Tapper
- Engineer
- Julian Alexander
- Art Direction
- Andrew Coleman
- Engineer
- Abel Garibaldi
- Engineer
- Troy Oliver
- Producer
- Tameka Foster
- Stylist
- Josean Posey
- Assistant
- Andy Gallas
- Programming, Engineer
- Ian Mereness
- Programming, Engineer
- David McPherson
- Executive Producer, A&R
- Jason Perry
- Guitar, Producer
- James Freebarin-Smith
- Vocals (Background), Producer
- Aaron Fishbein
- Guitar
- Bryan-Michael Cox
- Producer, Instrumentation
- Pablo Arraya
- Assistant
- Vadim Chislov
- Assistant
- Anthony Mandler
- Photography
- Stephen Marsh
- Mastering
- MiMi "Audio" Parker
- Assistant
- Nathan Wheeler
- Assistant Engineer
- Eliot Range
- A&R
- Javier Valverde
- Assistant
- Sam Thomas
- Pro-Tools
- Larry Oliver
- Keyboards
- R. Kelly
- Arranger, Producer, Mixing, Remix Producer, Remix Arrangement
- Jean-Marie Horvat
- Mixing























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