★★★★★
Years before Puff Daddy found multi-platinum success sampling David Bowie and the Police, Nice and Smooth were perfecting their own unique style of guilty pleasure hip-pop, scoring big hits with the infectious singles "Hip Hop Junkies" and "Sometimes I Rhyme Slow," which sampled the Partridge Family and Tracy Chapman, respectively...
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2008-08-27
★★★★★
Rappers Nice and Smooth have made a career out of making a little go a very long way. Never the world's best rappers, the duo more than made up for what they lacked in lyrical skill with their strong ear for hooks and melodies, winning chemistry and infectious enthusiasm. But by the time the time they got around to releasing their forth album, 1997's Blazing Hot, Vol. 4, their winning formula was starting to fade...
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2008-08-27
★★★★★
Nice & Smooth returned for a second album that injected a much-needed and entirely welcome sense of the absurd into the generally far too austere and sincere New York City underground hip-hop community, which has traditionally sacrificed humor for hardcore technique when it comes to rhyming. Greg Nice and Smooth B., however, are often downright silly and goofball on Ain't a Damn Thing Changed...
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2008-08-27