When Times Were Golden

"I Told You"评论: A Tory Story

在Jacquees和YK Osiris“争夺”King of R&B头衔时，加拿大跨界友人Tory Lanez发行了Chixtape系列第五作，这也是Chixtape首次以正规专辑的形式全网发行。上个月Ashanti出镜的封面就已经掀起不小的波澜，Tory团队还为专辑制作了MySpace风格的官方网站。也许Tory近年"Pa Mi"等作品过于“出格”，有些听众都忘记了，这位善用moderate autotune歌手的成名作是洋溢着复古情怀的"Say It"。

打开取样歌曲列表，它已然是一份00年代经典R&B/Hip-Hop歌曲选集。Tory不仅精心准备了取样，更是几乎每首都请到了原唱助阵。The biggest names in the game: Chris Brown, Trey Songz, Ludacris, Fabolous... 豪华的阵容同样是质量保障，imagine Ashanti singing on prime Ashanti beat in an Ashanti covered album.

00-07 was such an inspiration, all R&B fanatics would sing along to every and each tune sampled in the album, "Foolish", "Crying Out For Me", "Can't Help But Wait", "U Already Know"… Turned classics into new classics, that’s Tory in the building, with all original performers. As he said, the joint cost much effort, and spread more love: We go back to the hot summers bumping The Neptunes and Murder Inc. When times were golden, the streets didn't need no trap house to smoke.