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Teddy Riley's post-Guy group, Blackstreet, are remembered best for their ballads, but their edition of 20th Century Masters offers plenty of evidence they were great with uptempo tracks well past "No Diggity." Besides that wicked classic, there's the should've-been-bigger "Booti Call" and "Fix," here in its great "Main Mix" with help from Ol' Dirty Bastard. No surprise that the ballads are all killer -- "Joy" especially in its elegant "New Carnegie" mix -- and the collection ends with the deep Sunday morning worship number "The Lord Is Real." That's a great set of music, but what are the compilers suggesting by skipping the Finally and Level II albums? Finally had some great stuff on it and Level II wasn't a total disaster ("Wizzy Wow" as a bonus track -- that would be something!). The collection thinks outside the box for a minute and grabs "Coming Home to You" from the Get On the Bus soundtrack, but the collaboration with Jay-Z, "The City Is Mine," would've been the real track to go for. The collection is hardly the one-stop shop for Blackstreet's career, but their first two albums were their best. If some mixtape DJ bootlegged a mix of the first two albums you'd be lining up at Mom and Pop's record store for the memories. Pretend 20th Century Masters is that mixtape and not the overview it pretends to be and you'll have a great time, absolutely no diggity. ~ David Jeffries
Personnel: Teddy Riley (vocals, keyboards, programming); Dave Hollister (vocals); Eric Williams, Mark Middleton, Chauncey "Black" Hannibal (background vocals).
Liner Note Author: A. Scott Galloway.
20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection Music | List Price | $9.92 (You save $3.13) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, R&B CDs, Rap, Soul/R&B, Urban Soundtrack, Contemporary R&B | | Label | Interscope | | Orig Year | 2004 | | All Time Sales Rank |  172358  | | CD Universe Part number | 7384270 | | Catalog number | 000777102 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Mar 13, 2007 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Teddy Riley; Erick Sermon; Mike Ragogna (Compilation) | | Personnel | Dave Hollister - vocals
Chauncey "Black" Hannibal - background vocals
Teddy "Street" Riley - vocals, keyboards, programming
Eric "E" Williams
Mark Middleton
Also: Dr. Dre, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Tammy Lucas | | Additional Info | Remastered |
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