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2016 studio album by NxWorries From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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! | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | October 21, 2016 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 48:50 | |||
Label | Stones Throw | |||
Producer | Knxwledge | |||
NxWorries chronology | ||||
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Singles from Yes Lawd! | ||||
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]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AnyDecentMusic? | 7.7/10[7] |
Metacritic | 80/100[8] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [9] |
The Guardian | [10] |
The Irish Times | [11] |
Mojo | [12] |
NME | [13] |
The Observer | [14] |
Pitchfork | 8.2/10[15] |
Record Collector | [16] |
Uncut | 8/10[17] |
XXL | 4/5[18] |
Yes Lawd! received generally favorable reviews. 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.[8] NME magazine's Jordan Bassett hailed it as "a sprawling, languid affair, running to 19 tracks of soulful hip hop",[13] 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".[21] 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".[22]
Credits adapted from BMI.[23]
All tracks produced by Knxwledge.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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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 |
Chart (2016) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA)[24] | 48 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[25] | 63 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[26] | 82 |
New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ)[27] | 1 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[28] | 97 |
US Billboard 200[29] | 59 |
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[30] | 3 |
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