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Young Gunz - Tough Luv [PA] (CD 2004)

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Track Listing
1. Future Of The Roc
2. Roc U - Young Gunz & Beanie Sigel
3. No Better Love - Young Gunz & Rell
4. Friday Night
5. $$$ Girlz - Young Gunz & Juelz Santana
6. Never Take Me Alive - Young Gunz & Jay-Z
7. Tough Luv - Young Gunz & Denim
8. Grown Man
9. North Of Death
10. Look In Your Eyes - Young Gunz & Cam'rom
11. Take It How You Want It - Young Gunz & Sparks
12. That's Right
13. Parade - Young Gunz & Freeway
14. Time
15. Life We Chose - Young Gunz & Denim
16. Problemz (bonus track)
17. Can't Stop Won't Stop (remix/bonus track) - Young Gunz & Chingy

Details
Number of CDs:	1
Producer:	Bink, Chad Hamilton, R, Spunk Digga
Recording Type:	Studio
Distributor:	Universal Music
Recording Mode:	Stereo

Album Notes
Young Gunz: Young Chris, Neef (rap vocals).Additional personnel includes: Jay Z, Cam'Ron, Chingy, Beanie Sigel, Denim, Juelz Santana, Sparks, Freeway.Producers include: Bink, Chad Hamilton, Just Blaze, Scott Storch, Ruggedness.Young Chris and Neef, the Philadelphia duo who make up Young Gunz, are just emerging from their teens, yet the pair betray hip-hop wisdom far beyond their years on their highly anticipated debut, TOUGH LUV. The two were showcased as part of Beanie Sigel's State Property crew, and managed to stand out in a talented crowd, scoring a most-deserved hit from the excellent STATE PROPERTY VOL. 2 with the playful "Can't Stop, Won't Stop." TOUGH LUV contains a fun, funky remix of that song (featuring Chingy), along with 16 other lyrically skilled tracks of varying styles and shades.The tag Young Gunz, while seemingly reflecting the violent world in which the duo grew up, is actually a reference to basketball, a fact revealed in both their lyrics and rhyming style. While the words are aggressive in a fun-loving, freewheeling manner, their rhymes are passed off from one to another in easy and inviting flows. After opening with a few modern R&B-infused anthems, Young Gunz kick back into a pitch-perfect old-school throwback on the beat-box propelled "Friday Night," before flawlessly sampling fellow Philly natives Hall & Oates on "$$$ Girlz." When label icon Jay-Z drops by on the commanding "Never Take Me Alive," the die is cast, and Young Gunz have scored an impressive debut.

Editorial Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - [G]rim street tales leavened by vibrant production [and] up-tempo tracks tempered with a dash of naive street-corner bravado...Spin (4/04, p.93) - The title track is an oddly moving account of Neef's struggle to extricate himself from a life of crime....Chris can be charming, funny, and menacing all in one verse. - Grade: B-
Rolling Stone (03/18/2004)

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