>Please just let them know that they made some long time fans
>very happy. This album is so good I went out and bought 2 more
>copies yesterday for friends... one called me last night
>raving about how good this shit is.
>
As I stated earlier in this post before I ran out to Best Buy last week I was copping two (one for my work homegirl).

When she came back in after the weekend not only did she say she loved it but that she'd been bumping it in the car while driving her daughter & friends around (they're all about 14/15, high school freshman) and they were all loving it (Cadillac & Faithful being the consensus amongst their crew).

Those 14-year-olds who had never heard of The Time couldn't even believe these guys were 'old', they were banging it like it was the new Chris Brown & were getting picked up from their little high-school dance telling my coworker that they were 'condensating' on the dance floor all night.

I was grinning ear-to-ear when she told me that.

> The more I listen to this album the better it gets. I'm going
>to have to bump my rating up from an 8 to 9.5 ... even Trendin
>and Lifestyle are working for me now. Only reason i'm not
>going to give it a 10 is this album gives me faith they might
>be on an upswing and could do even better with another one
>lol. I think the problem some folks had (me included) is they
>really didn't know what they wanted from a new Time album. Had
>they just dropped a bunch of by the numbers classic sounding
>Time jams I don't think we'd have really been all that
>satisfied in the long run. What they did with this thing is
>pretty damn impressive when you sit down and let it marinate.
>The fellas have seamlessly merged the Time sound with various
>styles and genres... even more they each brought their solo
>sounds into the mix. Take a song like Lifestyle (which i kinda
>passed over when the album first dropped) in one song you have
>that classic "dreamy" Jam & Lewis production on top of a
>modern sounding R&B track with a splash of Jesse's "I Want My
>Girl" synths thrown in for good measure. In context I can't
>even be mad at what they did with Trendin now.
>
>The album is simply brilliant imo... in fact this may become
>somewhat of a litmus test for me. If you can't find this thing
>at least somewhat enjoyable I don't think we should ever be
>discussing music again... we're clearly looking for different
>things if you can't feel this.
>
>The boys did good... even better than I first thought. We just
>didn't know what we wanted... but more importantly they did.
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