Hey Kandi... by Kandi (CD, Sep-2000, Sony Music Distribution (USA))

Album Features
UPC:	074646375327
Artist:	Kandi
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2000
Record Label:	Sony Music Distribution (USA)
Genre:	Contemporary R&B, R&B

Track Listing
1. Introduction
2. Hey Kandi
3. Cheatin' on Me
4. What I'm Gon' Do to You
5. Don't Think I'm Not
6. Pants on Fire
7. Can't Come Back
8. I Wanna Know
9. Talking 'Bout Me
10. Sucka For You
11. Won't Bite My Tongue
12. Just So You Know
13. Easier - (featuring Faith Evans)
14. Outro

Details
Contributing Artists:	Faith Evans
Distributor:	Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel includes: Kandi (vocals); Focus (vocals, various instruments); Derek Scott (guitar); Orenthal Harper (keyboards); Lil John (bass); Sonya Knight, Katrina Willis, Sam Salter (background vocals).Producers include: Kevin "Ske'kspere" Briggs, Focus, Kandi, Laney Stewart, Katrina Willis.Engineers include: Focus, Malik Crawford, Brian Smith.Principally recorded at The Green Room, Atlanta, Georgia.This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players.Personnel includes: Kandi (vocals); Focus (vocals, various instruments); Derek Scott (guitar); Orenthal Harper (keyboards); Lil John (bass); Sonya Knight, Katrina Willis, Sam Salter (background vocals).Producers include: Kevin "Ske'kspere" Briggs, Focus, Kandi, Laney Stewart, Katrina Willis.Engineers include: Focus, Malik Crawford, Brian Smith.Principally recorded at The Green Room, Atlanta, Georgia.HEY KANDI is a perfect album to point to for people who don't understand how a non-rapper can make a hip-hop album. Kandi is essentially an R&B singer, and a skilled one, but the song structures and arrangements on her debut album are informed by hip-hop production style to such an extent that she seems to transcend R&B tropes and enter the more expansive realms of hip-hop. Her vocal rhythms certainly nod to the purposefully off-kilter syncopation of rap, but she remains consistently melodic. One of the most attractive aspects of HEY KANDI is the wider sonic palette made available by forsaking R&B clichT for the larger canvas of hip-hop. From string-section samples to throaty, electronically modified background voices and skittering electronic percussion that verges on the breakbeat, HEY KANDI's production is consistently fresh-sounding and inviting.

Editorial Reviews
3 out of 5 - ...Having written some of the best r'n'b tunes of the past few years....3 tracks save the day. Opener 'Hey Kandi'...'Bugaboo'-esque 'What I'm Gonna Do To You' and the string-laden 'Don't think I'm Not'...
Mixmag (20001001)

4 stars out of 5 - ...Brimming over with clever hooks and bitchy, sneering refrains...
Uncut (20001001)

3 stars out of 5 - ...Stresses the need for women to give as good as they get...and for men to genrally watch their manners...these Saturday night domestics are rendered danceable by Kevin 'She'kspere' Briggs...
Q (20001101)