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Next Friday[Soundtrack] [Import]
Various
発売日：1999年12月11日(土)
レーベル：Priority
レビュー (Amazon)
An Ice Cube-directed film was always going to be a good excuse for a storming soundtrack. For the follow-up to his cult classic Friday, it was an absolute necessity. So the biggest names in rap and R&B--The Wu-Tang Clan, Eminem, Krayzie Bone, Aaliyah (with her supremely soulful "I Don't Wanna") and the director himself (brandishing the ferocious statement of intent "You Can Do It")--have turned out in force, supplying career-defining tunes, to make Next Friday more than a match for its predecessor. Normally such a list, plus Wyclef Jean's funk jam "Low Income" and Pharoahe Monch's sublime "Livin It Up" (up there with Blackstreet's "No Diggity" as a classic) would be enough to ensure a stunning musical accompaniment to any movie. But Ice Cube's used Next Friday as an excuse, as if one were needed, to re-form the mighty NWA, with Snoop Dogg taking the mic for the late Easy E. And while "Chin Check", their first track in a decade, may not be their finest outing, it comes a pretty hard-hitting second and guarantees this as the hip-hop collection of the year. --Dan Gennoe
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