Naughty made their choruses a bit naughtier on this one, a factor that gave the record more edge than their last. "Craziest" features a smartly developed chorus...
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For their third album, Naughty By Nature do little to truly change their style. Some of the beats are little slower and funkier, some of the rhymes are more dexterous, some...
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"Hip Hop Hooray" indeed proved that this New Jersey-based group's success was no fluke. Their formulaic hard, singalong choruses worked again. However, "Hip...
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Despite an excellent debut album, Naughty by Nature was pegged as a one-hit wonder by some observers -- after all, they'd never duplicate the inescapably catchy "O.P.P.,"...
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This debut shocked the rap world with the right blend of commercial appeal and hardcore edge. "O.P.P." won instantaneous favor, but the more underground feeling...
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There was not a bigger, more contagious crossover radio smash in the autumn of 1991 than Naughty by Nature's "O.P.P.," a song that somehow managed the trick of being both...
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Longevity is a rare for hip-hop artists, since audiences place a priority on new sounds. It's difficult for veteran acts to continue to cultivate new sounds, and many have...
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It's 1999, and the roof-raising chemistry amongst Kay Gee, Vinnie, and Treach is still booming with songs like "Dirt All By My Lonely," already No. 1 on Gavin's...
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It's 1999, and the roof-raising chemistry amongst Kay Gee, Vinnie, and Treach is still booming with songs like "Dirt All By My Lonely," already No. 1 on Gavin's...
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Longevity is a rare for hip-hop artists, since audiences place a priority on new sounds. It's difficult for veteran acts to continue to cultivate new sounds, and many have...
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Right from the get-go, Naughty by Nature's greatest-hits compilation reminds people that before there was the invasion of P. Diddy and the Bling-Blingers, there was a group...
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Hip-hop does not look kindly on its veteran artists apart from anything other than lip service -- names are dropped all the time, but it's hard to sustain a career into a...
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On the first couple of tracks on iicons, it sounds like Naughty By Nature isn't going to miss departed producer Kay Gee a bit. "Swing Swang" and the summery "Feels Good" are...
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Hip-hop does not look kindly on its veteran artists apart from anything other than lip service -- names are dropped all the time, but it's hard to sustain a career into a...
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Make no bones about it, Naughty By Nature has a knack of bringing street intellect to the pop charts with raw-edged but still accessible East Coast rap. Long before the...
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