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Editor's Review:

These guys are everywhere — chillin’ in Brazil with Snoop Dogg, helping Justin Timberlake get back at Britney, rollin’ with Jay-Z in NYC. Actually, that’s all just Pharrell Williams (The Neptunes’ public face), but he and his partner Chad Hugo are, together, one of the hottest production teams in popular music. No wonder this album features the blingin’est ballers on the MTV scene, from Busta Rhymes and Ludacris to Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and N.O.R.E. to Neptunes side project, N.E.R.D., and Star Trak label MCs Clipse. Everything on this record sounds great, no doubt, but in the same way that many of these rappers deliver predictable raps, The Neptunes’ beats are starting to get timeworn. The tracks aren’t necessarily stale, but they’re highly stylized and haven’t exhibited much evolvement since this crew first broke out. They obviously have the talent to grow, maybe they just don’t have to…yet.
– Max Sidman
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Record Label Star Trak / Arista
Released August 2003

Tracks

  1. Intro
  2. Light Your Ass On Fire - Busta Rhymes
  3. Blaze of Glory - Clipse, Pharell & Ab-Liva
  4. It Wasn't Us - Ludacris & I-20
  5. Frontin' - Pharrell & Jay-Z
  6. Good Girl - Vanessa Marquez
  7. If - Nelly
  8. Hot - Rosco P. Coldchain, Pusha T & Boo-Bonic
  9. It Blows My Mind - Snoop Dogg
  10. Half-Steering - Spymob
  11. Fuck N Spend - The High Speed Scene
  12. Loser - N.E.R.D. & Clipse
  13. Rock N Roll - Fam-Lay
  14. The Don of Dons (Put De Ting Pon Dem) - Super Cat & Jadakiss
  15. Hot Damn - Clipse, Ab-Liva, Pharrell & Rosco P. Coldchain
  16. Put Em Up- N.O.R.E. & Pharrell
  17. Pop Shit - Dirt McGirt
  18. Popular Thug - Kelis & Nas
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Somewhere between socially conscious hip-hop and psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll lies N*E*R*D* (No One Ever Really Dies). Led by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of the seminal Neptunes production collective (responsible for thick beats behind the likes of Jay-Z, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Mystikal, Mary J. Blige, Babyface, Usher, etc.), the Virginia-based group focuses their sound on the organic side of hip-hop, balancing rhymes and beats with guitars and live drums. Williams and Hugo have been creating music together since they met in 7th grade, and along with Shay, their N.E.R.D. partner in crime, the group released their debut album In Search Of… on Virgin Records in 2002.

— Maurice S. Teilmann (July, 2002)

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