Pleasure & Pain
03/29/2005 | Def Soul Classics
Lyrics from Pleasure & Pain
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All Music Guide Review
What's more surprising? That Pleasure and Pain, One Twelve's fifth album, is not a greatest-hits compilation named after a song off their 1996 debut, or that it comes with a parental advisory label? In nearly a decade of existence, the group has amassed enough charting singles to warrant a concise best-of, and not many artists coming up with them during the mid-'90s are still active. In the wake of parting with P. Diddy and Bad Boy, they've taken the opportunity to work with a mostly new pool of collaborators, including Mario Winans, Jermaine Dupri, and Bryan-Michael Cox, who each pitch in once or twice. They remain self-sufficient otherwise, with member Daron Jones handling a good portion of the production duties. The result isn't much different from the previous albums, with a few standout singles and album tracks surrounded by a generous amount of forgettable moments, and a similar ratio of upbeat numbers and ballads to match. The parental advisory label (a first for the once squeaky-clean group) can actually be pinned on previously unlikely collaborators Three 6 Mafia. (Who could've ever predicted that a line as forthright as "Is she gonna chew me up or she gon' swallow up my nads" would ever appear in one of their songs? Nobody.) ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide
Pleasure & Pain Track Listing
Credits of Pleasure & Pain
- Manny Marroquin
- Mixing
- L.A. Reid
- Executive Producer
- Robert Sims
- Design, Creative Director
- Alvin Speights
- Mixing
- Phil Tan
- Mixing
- Kevin Wales
- Producer
- Mario Winans
- Producer
- Jim Beeman
- Mixing
- 112
- Vocals (Background), Executive Producer
- Tom Coyne
- Mastering
- Ben Arrindell
- Mixing
- Sybil Pennix
- Wardrobe
- Nichell Delvaille
- Art Producer
- Vernon Mungo
- Engineer, Mixing
- Paul Osborn
- Vocal Engineer
- Quinnes Parker
- Vocal Producer
- Tara Podolsky
- A&R
- Daron Jones
- Producer
- Ken Fambro
- Producer
- Ryan Evans
- Assistant Engineer, Assistant
- James M. Wisner
- Assistant Engineer
- Sean Cooper
- Sound Design
- John Horesco IV
- Assistant
- Warryn Campbell
- Programming, Producer, Instrumentation
- Bam
- Producer, Instrumentation
- Bryan-Michael Cox
- Producer
- Leesa Brunson
- A&R
- Sandra Campbell
- Project Coordinator
- Rob Skipworth
- Assistant
- Bruce Buechner
- Engineer
- Roger Erickson
- Photography
- The Track Boyz
- Producer
- Eric Weissman
- Sample Clearance
- Marcus T. Grant
- Executive Producer, Management
- Amber Noble
- Marketing
- Roxanne Estrada
- Vocals (Background)
- Eric Hunter
- Engineer
- Josh Monroy
- Assistant Engineer
- Tommy Jamin
- Engineer
- Shakir Stewart
- Executive Producer, A&R
- Sean Garrett
- Producer, Vocal Producer
- Khary Menelik
- Assistant
- Erica Bowen
- Recording Director
- Jeanne Allamby
- Production Coordination
- Matthew Betmalik
- Prop Stylist
- Clifford Henson
- Vocal Engineer
- Floyd "Tag" Merriweather
- Guitar
- James Mungo
- Assistant
- Darrell "Delite" Allamby
- Producer, Engineer, Editing, Tracking, Instrumentation, Vocal Engineer, Mixing
- Butch Bonner
- Guitar
- Jermaine Dupri
- Producer, Mixing
- Brian Frye
- Engineer
- Jean-Marie Horvat
- Mixing
- Michael Keith
- Vocal Producer
- Focus
- Producer

















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