Yes Lawd!

Yes Lawd!
Studio album by NxWorries
Released October 21, 2016
Genre
Length 48:50
Label Stones Throw
Producer Knxwledge
NxWorries chronology
Link Up & Suede
(2015)Link Up & Suede2015		 Yes Lawd!
(2016)
Singles from Yes Lawd!
  1. "Suede"
    Released: February 10, 2015
  2. "Link Up"
    Released: December 4, 2015
  3. "Lyk Dis"
    Released: September 19, 2016
  4. "Get Bigger / Do U Luv"
    Released: October 6, 2016

Yes Lawd! is the debut studio album by American neo soul[1] duo NxWorries, which consists of vocalist Anderson .Paak and producer Knxwledge. It was released on October 21, 2016, by Stones Throw Records.[2] It is supported by four singles, "Suede", "Link Up", "Lyk Dis", and "Get Bigger / Do U Luv".

Yes Lawd! received generally positive reviews from critics.

Release and promotion

On June 19, 2016, member Anderson .Paak confirmed that NxWorries' debut studio album is finished and set for release.[3] On July 25, 2016, Paak's manager, Adrian Miller, confirmed that the album was to be titled Yes Lawd!.[4] On September 19, 2016, the third single to NxWorries' debut studio album "Lyk Dis" was released, along with the track listing and release date for the album.[5] On October 14, 2016, the duo released the album a week early for streaming on Apple Music.[6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic80/100[7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[8]
Consequence of SoundB–[9]
The Guardian[10]
The Irish Times[11]
NME[12]
The Observer[13]
Pitchfork8.2/10[14]
PopMatters7/10[15]
State4/5[16]
Vice[17]

Yes Lawd! received critical acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, it received an average score of 80, based on 22 reviews.[18] NME magazine's Jordan Bassett hailed it as "a sprawling, languid affair, running to 19 tracks of soulful hip hop",[12] while Jim Carroll of The Irish Times called it "an all-beats-blazing set of the funk".[11] It was deemed an "R&B lover and millennial must-have" by Vibe,[19] and Rolling Stone named it the 15th best R&B album of 2016.[1] Robert Christgau gave the album a three-star honorable mention in his column for Vice, indicating "an enjoyable effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well treasure".[20] He cited "Another Time", "Lyk Dis", and "Fkku" as highlights while calling Anderson .Paak a "love man [who] projects [a] minimum modicum of empathy with his salable burr yet somehow sounds cuddly even so".[17] Marshall Gu from PopMatters was less enthusiastic, writing that the album "wants to be a neo-soul version of Madvillain or The Unseen or Donuts, that is, a stoner's dream collection of fragments of songs, less focused on hooks and more focused on sounds".[15]

Track listing

All tracks written by Glen Boothe and Brandon Anderson; track 13 co-written by Gil Scott-Heron. All tracks produced by Knxwledge.

No.TitleLength
1."Intro"0:48
2."Livvin"2:45
3."Wngs"1:36
4."Best One"3:14
5."What More Can I Say"2:36
6."Kutless"2:07
7."Lyk Dis"2:30
8."Can't Stop"2:01
9."Get Bigger / Do U Luv"4:03
10."Khadijah"2:02
11."H.A.N."2:49
12."Scared Money"2:57
13."Suede"2:54
14."Starlite"3:23
15."Sidepiece"3:46
16."Jodi"1:09
17."Link Up"3:31
18."Another Time"2:27
19."Fkku"2:11
Total length:48:50

Sample credits

  • "Livvin" contains samples of "Tributo Ao Sorriso", written by Alen Terra, Yan Guest, Jorge Amiden, and Luiz Junior, and performed by Karma.
  • "Wngs" contains samples of "Ghetto Money", written by Linda Creed and Thom Bell, and performed by Ahmad Jamal.
  • "Best One" contains samples of "Lord You're My Everything", written by Thomas Whitfield and performed by the Thomas Whitfield Company; and samples of the film The Players Club.
  • "What More Can I Say" contains samples of "What More Can I Say", written by Bradley Bobo, Clifford Curry, Santos Domínguez, and Terry Long, and performed by The Notations; samples of "Good to Get Away", written and performed by Brenda Nicholas and Philip Nicholas; and samples of "Nights Like This", written by Jesse Johnson and Keith Lewis, and performed by After 7.
  • "Kutless" contains samples of "Lady", written and performed by Gino Vannelli.
  • "Lyk Dis" contains samples of "Mr. Me, Mrs. You", written by H. B. Barnum and Robert Young, and performed by Creme d'Cocoa; and contains samples of "Ebony Woman", written by Morris Bailey and performed by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.
  • "Can't Stop" contains samples of "I Think My Heart Is Telling", written by John H. Fitch Jr. and Reuben Cross, and performed by Evelyn "Champagne" King; and samples of the television series Rick and Morty.
  • "Get Bigger / Do U Luv" contains samples of "The Love You Gave to Me", written by Greg Adams and Webster Lewis, and performed by Webster Lewis; samples of "In Summertime", written and performed by Ronnie McNeir; and samples of "Pussy", written by Shawn Carter, Robert Kelly, and Devin Copeland, and performed by Jay Z and R. Kelly featuring Devin the Dude.
  • "H.A.N." contains samples of ; and samples the film The Players Club.
  • "Scared Money" contains samples of "(I Could Never Say) It's Over", written by Johnny Kemp and Mauro Malavasi and performed by B. B. & Q. Band; and interpolations of "Midnight", written by Ali Muhammad, Jonathan Davis, and Malik Taylor, and performed by A Tribe Called Quest featuring Raphael Wiggins.
  • "Suede" contains samples of "The Bottle", written by Gil Scott-Heron and performed by Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson.
  • "Starlite" contains samples of "God Is So Good to Me", written by Clyde G. Carter and performed by Gwen Carter.
  • "Sidepiece" contains an interpolation of "Won't Do", written and performed by J Dilla.
  • "Another Time" contains samples of "Bless You With My Love", written by Barbara J. Trotter and performed by Heaven Sent & Ecstasy; and samples of "Your Love", written by Kenni Ski, Allen Anthony, and Shawn Carter, and performed by Christión and Jay Z.
  • "Fkku" contains samples of "Absolutely Beautiful", written and performed by Eddie Robinson; and samples of the video "Dear person that pissed me off..." by Krissychula.

Charts

Chart (2016) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[21] 48
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[22] 63
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[23] 82
New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ)[24] 1
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[25] 97
US Billboard 200[26] 59
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[27] 3

References

  1. 1 2 Reed, Ryan (February 15, 2017). "Watch Anderson Paak's Dramatic Valentine's Day 'Tonight Show' Performance". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Yes Lawd! by NxWorries, Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge on Apple Music". Itunes.apple.com. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Anderson .Paak Says 'NxWorries' Album Is Finished - XXL". Xxlmag.com. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ Hermann, Andy. "Anderson .Paak's Long, Hard Road to Fame Was Worth the Wait". Los Angeles Weekly. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
  5. ↑ https://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2016/09/nxworries-yes-lawd
  6. ↑ http://pitchfork.com/news/68999-listen-to-nxworries-anderson-paak-and-knxwledge-new-album-yes-lawd-a-week-early/
  7. ↑ "Yes Lawd! by NxWorries". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  8. ↑ Kellman, Andy (n.d.). "Yes Lawd! - NxWorries". AllMusic. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  9. ↑ Kearse, Stephen (October 24, 2016). "NxWorries – Yes Lawd!". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  10. ↑ Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (October 27, 2016). "NxWorries: Yes Lawd! review – beauty in beefs and endless sex". The Guardian. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  11. 1 2 Carroll, Jim (October 20, 2016). "NxWorries - Yes Lawd! album review: Anderson .Paak comes out all beats blazing". The Irish Times. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  12. 1 2 Bassett, Jordan (n.d.). "NxWorries - 'Yes Lawd!' Album Review". NME. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  13. ↑ Jaward, Isa (October 23, 2016). "NxWorries: Yes Lawd! review – Paak and Knxwledge have all the answers". The Observer. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  14. ↑ Bromwich, Jonah (October 18, 2016). "NxWorries: Yes Lawd! Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  15. 1 2 Gu, Marshall (October 27, 2016). "NxWorries: Yes Lawd!". PopMatters. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  16. ↑ Moore, Andrew (November 2, 2016). "NxWorries – Yes Lawd!". State. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  17. 1 2 Christgau 2017.
  18. ↑ Anon. (n.d.). "Critic Reviews for Yes Lawd!". Metacritic. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  19. ↑ Anon. (n.d.). "13. NxWorries, 'Yes Lawd!'". Vibe. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
  20. ↑ Christgau 2017; Christgau 2000, p. xvi.
  21. ↑ "Australiancharts.com – NxWorries – Yes Lawd!". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  22. ↑ "Ultratop.be – NxWorries – Yes Lawd!" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  23. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – NxWorries – Yes Lawd!" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  24. ↑ "NZ Heatseekers Albums Chart". Recorded Music NZ. October 31, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  25. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – NxWorries – Yes Lawd!". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  26. ↑ "NxWorries Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
  27. ↑ "NxWorries Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 1, 2016.

Bibliography

  • Christgau, Robert (2000). Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan. ISBN 0312245602.
  • Christgau, Robert (March 3, 2017). "On Syd's Depth and Resonance: Expert Witness with Robert Christgau". Vice. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
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