![]() I don’t play those games.” Make sure to get the Star Trak’s The Original Heartical Don Dada Mixtape from 2003 below. “ Next thing I’m responsible for what I can’t deliver. He made just a few appearances over the years: “ The Don Of Dons” featuring Jadakiss and Styles P., from The Neptunes‘ 2003 album Clones, as well as a handful of Mixtape tracks and an appearance on 112’s “ Na Na Na.” “ I return the money to Arista because I don’t want to have people’s money,” he says of his stalled-out album. A planned comeback project with Pharrell Williams‘ Neptunes, who signed him to their Arista Records imprint Star Trak in 2002, was aborted. One of his mainstream breaks came in 1997, when Sugar Ray featured him on their massive single “ Fly, ” - but he faded from view not long thereafter. go away for a minute with an empty plate and an old iron gate, until the most high said, ‘return’.” Born William Maragh, Super Cat put a cerebral spin on Jamaica’s burgeoning dancehall sound in the 1980s, poking fun at sugar daddy relationships on 1986’s”Boops” and breaking down third-world geopolitics on “ Under Pressure.” At the dawn of the Nineties, he relocated to New York, signed with Columbia Records, and released two albums: 1992’s Don Dada and 1995’s The Struggle Continues. “ The music was taking a different turn to a different level. “ I went on a pause for a reasonable cause,” Super Cat tells Rolling Stone, citing travel restrictions, the death of his long-time manager Fred Donner, and changes within Jamaican music for his lengthy absence. But over the last few months, that’s slowly been changing. Super Cat helped bring Jamaican Dancehall to global light in the Nineties with hardcore “ gunman” tunes and crossover collaborations with the likes of Kris Kross, Sugar Ray and The Notorious B.I.G., but the “ Don Dada” as he’s known, has been largely absent from music for the last decade. After a near 10– year absence, new shows and a single reissue are on the horizon. Or you could just take the whole disc as is, as a strong if patchy reminder of the Neptunes' pop prowess.Photo By Johnny Nunez/ WireImage. Doing this would hopefully eradicate the middle patch of innocuous rock - Spymob's "Half-Steering," the High Speed Scene's "F**k n' Spend" - while retaining the aforementioned highlights, along with saving space for Vanessa Marquez' "Good Girl," which has to be the best ripoff of late-'80s Jam & Lewis-style production. ![]() Besides, you can whittle this disc down to your favorite dozen and have one of the year's best albums. At 18 tracks, there's a little too much to digest, and not everything is top rate - but knocking the disc for the fact that a few cuts aren't Top Ten material would only further illustrate how spoiled listeners have become, and how remarkable the Neps' run has been. ![]() (It also must be said that no one but Williams could make a chorus like "Pop sh*t, n*gg*, what's up?" so effective.) "Popular Thug," originally a track on Kelis' import-only Wanderland, gets a deserved new look, with Pusha T's role bumped in favor of Nas, who proceeds to take the track over and knock Kelis into the supporting role. Amidst whirling sirens, Dirt McGirt's turn, "Pop Shit," boasts a comical Looney Tunes-worthy arrangement. (It also must be said that no one else could make the line "And I was gon' tear your ass up" seem so charming.) The spare cattle-prod funk of "Light Your Ass on Fire" pings and jolts with sharp zaps, accompanying Busta Rhymes' more sexually aggressive and explicit come-ons. Williams steps out with some help from Jay-Z on "Frontin'," one of the biggest Neptunes-related singles yet the light, simple arrangement is ideally suited to Williams' lighthearted falsetto. If anything, Clones puts an end to any thought that the duo randomly selects a track from their beat bank when collaborating, since it ably demonstrates how their skills can adapt to any conceivable personality. For The Neptunes Present.Clones, the tables are somewhat turned the producers aren't in need of any more hits, but they do the enlisting here, and they snare an all-star cast of featured players who are willing to join up and/or return the favor, all the while reaping the cachet that comes with being in such venerated company. When Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams are behind the boards, hit singles are expected, and hit singles are usually granted.
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