Subject

Dwele

Dwele / Subject
Genre: music4me > Urban > Soul
Format: CD Album
Released: Tue 20 May 2003
Catalogue Number: VIR80919B.2

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Description:
Personnel includes: Dwele, Slum Village.

Producers includes: Dwele, Jake & The Phatman, Ronald Estill, Dwayne Bastiany, Pete Kuzma.

Meet the nu-soul--same as the old soul? Well, Dwele's debut certainly contains similarities to old-school artists such as Donny Hathaway and of course Stevie Wonder--all the evidence you need to connect the dots is here in the shimmering Fender Rhodes piano that predominates on SUBJECT.

But Dwele is made of more contemporary stuff. He's a rapper who's found his singing voice, though the only time his hip-hop roots really show is in the tumbling lyrics to the coming-of-age song "Twuneanunda" and the title track. Mostly he's a smoothly sophisticated singer with a canny sense of what works in an arrangement, and while he obviously has deep ties to what is now ancient R&B history, his sound is undeniably modern, and irresistibly seductive. Most of the cuts on SUBJECT are down-tempo, though the incidence of satin sheet-oriented boudoir ballads is kept to a surprising minimum. He's a more thoughtful lyricist than that, as evidenced by the nuanced, humorous "Lady at Mahogany," about a tryst gone awry, in which he shows he's not averse to telling tales on himself. SUBJECT is both light enough in feel and accomplished enough in execution to leave you hungry for more.

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Track Listing:

1.  Intro (Poppa)
2.  Truth, The
3.  Find a Way
4.  Twuneanunda
5.  A.N.G.E.L. - (Interlude)
6.  Day at a Time
7.  Subject
8.  Sho' Ya Right
9.  Money Don't Mean a Thing
10.  Hold On
11.  Kick Outta U
12.  Without U
13.  Whoomp - (Interlude)
14.  Lady of Mahogany
15.  A.N.G.E.L. - (Reprise, Featuring Slum Village)
16.  Let Your Hair Down

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