Here I have for sale 4 hip-hop / funk / R&B film score soundtrack CDs:
• Carmen MTV's Hip Hopera soundtrack (2001)
• Black and White – Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture (2000)
• Jason's Lyric soundtrack (1994)
• Stevie Wonder – Music From The Movie "Jungle Fever" (1991)
Condition:
Black & White is NEW.
Carmen and Jason's Lyric – Jewel cases, CDs and booklets are all in excellent condition. No scratches or tears, rips, etc. Superb examples.
Jungle Fever is ex-library issue with stickers, VG overall.
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1. CARMEN MTV's Hip Hopera soundtrack (2001)
Label: Pinnacle
Country: UK
Year: 2001
Track Listing:
1. Introduction - Da Brat
2. Survivor (remix) - Destiny's Child & Da Brat
3. Boom - Royce Da 5'9"
4. What We Gonna Do - Rah Digga
5. If Looks Could Kill (You Would Be Dead) - Knowles, Beyonce & Mos Def/S. Sarpong
6. Cards Never Lie - Knowles, Beyonce & Wyclef Jean/Rah Digga
7. Last Great Seduction - Knowles, Beyonce & M. Phifer
8. BLAZE - Lee, Casey & Rah Digga/Joy Bryant
9. Black And Blue - Mos Def & M. Phifer
10. Stop That - Knowles, Beyonce & M. Phifer
11. BLAZE (finale) - Lee, Casey
12. Immortal Beloved - Da Brat
13. Bootylicious (Rockwilder remix) - Destiny's Child & Missy Elliott
Review:
Matthew Knowles, father of Beyoncé Knowles and manager of her group, Destiny's Child, through his Music World Management company, clearly has ambitions for his daughter that extend beyond making Destiny's Child the most popular group of the early 21st century. His plan became apparent only a week after the release of Destiny's Child's Survivor album, when his daughter starred in an MTV production of Carmen, with the 1875 Bizet opera stripped of all but its storyline and turned into a contemporary rap musical. Oscar Hammerstein II was the first one to imagine Carmen in a modern context with African-Americans, but his 1943 Broadway musical Carmen Jones retained Bizet's music with English lyrics.
The new Carmen is the brainchild of Kip Collins and Sekani Williams, who have employed a few synthesized string elements, but otherwise dropped any sense of the original. It is certainly an ambitious idea to try to use rap for a sustained musical story, but Collins and Williams show that the form doesn't quite support such a concept, at least in their hands.
The music is at its best in tracks like "The Last Great Seduction," when Knowles and co-star Mekhi Phifer are trading insults, but elsewhere, such as in "What We Gonna Do," performed by Rah Digga, the clipped-out obscenities render this "clean" version largely incomprehensible. (You'd have thought that, knowing the film was going to be broadcast on TV, the writers would have curbed their language beforehand.)
Actually, there isn't all that much music here. The album runs less than 35 minutes, and that includes remixes of the Destiny's Child hits "Survivor" and "Bootylicious." Maybe rap will turn out to be a vehicle for sustained storytelling someday, but this attempt is barely a vehicle for Beyoncé Knowles' and her father's ambitions.
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2. Black and White – Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture (2000)
It was released on March 28, 2000, shortly before the film was released to theaters, through Loud Records.
Jewel case, CD and booklet are all new. Jewel case is unsealed. Top security tab remains in place.
Tracklist
1. "It's Not a Game"- 4:57 (American Cream Team, Raekwon, RZA)
2. "Year 2000"- 3:45 (Xzibit)
3. "Don't Be a Follower"- 3:15 (Prodigy)
4. "Dramacide"- 3:39 (The X-Ecutioners, Big Pun)
5. "Life's a Bitch"- 3:24 (Everlast)
6. "Wake Up"- 4:07 (Raekwon)
7. "Dem Crazy"- 4:55 (dead Prez, Stephen Marley)
8. "Stand for Something"- 4:40 (Chip Banks, Outlawz)
9. "Middle Finger Attitude"- 4:09 (American Cream Team)
10. "You'll Never Be Better Than M" (I'm That Shit)"- 4:35 (Queen Pen, Joe Hooker)
11. "You" [Feel Good Remix]- 3:46 (Samuel Christian, Mos Def)
12. "You're a Big Girl Now"- 4:14 (L.V.)
13. "Free"- 3:24 (Michael Fredo)
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3. Jason's Lyric soundtrack (1994)
Jewel case, CD and booklet are all mint. Only played once or twice.
Released in late 1994, the Jason's Lyric original soundtrack album topped the Top R'n'B Albums chart and was a Top 20 Billboard 200 ranking album.
"Covers gospel, blues and soul through modern hip-hop!"
It spawned three singles: "If You Think You're Lonely Now," a cover of the Bobby Womack hit by Jodeci lead singer K-Ci, "Crazy Love" by Brian McKnight and "U Will Know," a major collaboration from male R'n'B singers comprising Black Men United (BMU), written by future Neosoul artist D'Angelo.
Track listing:
1. "U Will Know" — Black Men United* – 4:00
2. "Forget I Was a 'G'" — Whitehead Brothers – 3:56
3. "Candy Man" — LL Cool J – 3:57
4. "If Trouble Was Money" — Mint Condition featuring Albert Collins – 3:51
5. "Just Like My Papa" — Tony! Toni! Toné! – 3:43
6. "If You Think You're Lonely Now" — K-Ci Hailey – 3:56
7. "Rodeo Style" — Jamecia – 4:23
8. "Up and Down" — J. Quest – 4:01
9. "Walk Away" — Da 5 Footaz – 3:42
10. "Love Is the Key" — LSD – 4:04
11. "No More Love" — DRS – 4:11
12. "Crazy Love" — Brian McKnight – 4:02
13. "That's How It Is" — Ahmad – 3:57
14. "First Round Draft Pick" — Twinz, Warren G – 4:01
15. "Brothers and Sistas" — Jayo Felony – 3:52
16. "This City Needs Help" — Buddy Guy – 2:50
17. "Nigga Sings the Blues" — Spice 1 – 3:19
18. "Jesse James" — Scarface – 3:51
19. "Love Is Still Enough" — Sovory – 3:55
20. "Many Rivers to Cross" — Oleta Adams – 4:03
* included Lenny Kravitz, Tevin Campbell, Gerald Levert, El DeBarge, Usher, R. Kelly, Brian McKnight, Boyz II Men, Melvin Edmonds, Keith Sweat, Raphael Saadiq, Christopher Williams, Joe, and D'Angelo.
Review:
Where many of the soundtracks to movies about contemporary black culture tend to emphasize the new jack aspects of today's sounds, the songs which make up JASON'S LYRIC portray a much richer vision of inner city life.
That's because this tale of inner city brothers whose father has been killed--one caught up in the gangsta life, the other trying to stay on the straight and narrow--summons up a more complex web of human emotions and urban characters.
Thus the range of music represented here, while steeped in the new jack conventions of modern hip-hop, establishes a solid set of connections with the foundation of modern black music: gospel, blues and soul.
So you have the spiritual epilogue of Oleta Adams' "Many Rivers To Cross," and the gospel-inflected overture of "U Will Know" by B.M.U., with its Southern soul groove, all-star contemporary cast and unyielding positivity.
"If Trouble Was Money" (by Mint Condition and the late blues guitarist Albert Collins) and "This City Needs Help" (by guitarist Buddy Guy) match contemporary soul balladry to powerful traditional blues forms, while on "Nigga Sings The Blues," Spice declaims a powerful double-time rap over soulful strings, wah-wah guitar and juke joint organ.
But by contrast, "First Round Draft Pick" (from The Twinz/G Funk Era) and "Brothers And Sistas" (by Jayo Felony) contrast soft focus West Coast backgrounds against dark, fatalistic rhapsodies in blue.
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4. Stevie Wonder – Music From The Movie "Jungle Fever"
Condition – an ex-library issue with stickers, VG overall.
Label: Motown – 530 000-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: 1991
Genre: Funk / Soul, Stage & Screen
Style: Soul, Funk, Soundtrack
Tracklist
1. Fun Day 4:40
2. Queen In The Black 4:46
3. These Three Words 4:54
4. Each Other's Throat 4:17
5. If She Breaks Your Heart 5:03
6. Gotta Have You 6:26
7. Make Sure You're Sure 3:31
8. Jungle Fever 4:56
9. I Go Sailing 3:58
10. Chemical Love 4:26
11. Lighting Up The Candles 4:09
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Motown Record Company, L.P.
Copyright (c) – Motown Record Company, L.P.
Manufactured By – PMDC, France
Lead Vocals, Vocals [Background], Drums, Percussion – Stevie Wonder
Music By, Lyrics By – Stevie Wonder
Producer, Arranged By, Written By – Stevie Wonder
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Postage and packaging FREE to UK. Will post worldwide. Europe £7; N and S America, USA, Canada £10; Asia, Australia, Japan £14.
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