★★★★★
If you want a lover with a slowhand, Ginuwine's the real thing: This single's irresistible funkgrooves lope at an easy gait, seducing the listener with avelvety tenor and belching synthesizer hook. While "Pony" mayride the equestrian sexual metaphor a little hard, it's stillbetter than your average bump and grind. A-
- ew.com
2011-03-03
★★★★★
In the 90's, few new school R&B crooners were as popular and prolific as Elgin "Ginuwine" Lumpkin. The Washington, D.C. native was a tender 21 years old when the irresistably undulating "Pony" peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and practically every hit since then has capitalized on the performer's smooth, sexualized persona ("None Of Ur Friend's Business," "So Anxious," "Stingy," "In Those Jeans")...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
I know what you're thinking, and it's a mix of "Finally!" and "What, just one CD?" You're thinking that because our brilliantly hilarious minds think alike, and Ginuwine doesn't deserve a greatest hits album. To his credit, the greasy squelch-bounce of Pony and the plaintive gangsta ode Same Ol' G are here, but that's about it...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Before Timbaland ruled radio as the beat master for Missy Elliott and Aaliyah, he debuted his production skills on Ginuwine's 1996 hit "Pony." On his return home on "What's So Different", he eclipses Ginuwine's tired wronged-man tale and makes his own sound the star here. The flamenco guitar pirouettes and stealthy bass line ? sounding as if they came from a sci-fi funkopolis time machine ? would make the perfect score to a ghetto BladeRunner.
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Ginuwine has a velvety voice, a flawless falsetto, Jackson-esque moves and a dazzling six-pack. So? In today's glutted R&B market, he's a dime a dozen. Young 'uns (Mario, Omarion) out-dance him; veterans (R. Kelly) out-sing him; Usher out-midriffs him...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
He never made that much of an impact in the UK, but over in the States Elgin Baylor Lumpkin, aka Ginuwine, has, for the last decade and a half, been a superstar of hip hop soul. More than that, he's had a reputation for being a prime mover in hi-tech RnB circles, mainly because on his first two albums - 1996's Ginuwine.....
- www.bbc.co.uk
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Even for low-talents and over-the-hills, it's not that hard to force out a halfway decent r&b album--you just buy top-drawer beats like Jamie Foxx, or muster some semblance of attitude like Queen Latifah. So what's become of this minor innovator is kinda sad. It's not as if he overdoes the sexism or sounds like a total lame, although his voice does crack slightly on "Even When I'm Mad...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2010-02-12
★★★★★
On A Man's Thoughts, Ginuwine updates his style ever so carefully. Avoiding the markers of modern R&B - flash-in-the-pan producers, arbitrary cameos or Auto-Tune (okay, one hook) - he's just a man with total control over his voice and an instrumental backdrop that never smothers it. Lyrically speaking, Ginuwine is on point and grown-up as ever. See wordplay like "If I only got one shot to win you / then call me Jordan, fourth-quarter in 92," on Last Chance...
- nowtoronto.com
2009-11-07
★★★★★
Thump, bump, hump ("Final Warning," "No. 1 Fan").
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10