However, if you're looking for a few quality singles rather than a consistent album, you should find this to be an engaging album, even if its rushed and ultimately thin on original ideas. In sum, this plays like a pop album - a few obvious standout singles and lots of repetitive filler. He proves more than capable of the challenge on songs like the lead single, "Let's Stay Home Tonight," but too often these songs recycle the same songwriting techniques and find Joe revisiting the same motifs over and over.
There isn't a roll call of big-name producers here (though the Neptunes do make a showing), so Joe is left to carry much of the album's weight. The other collaboration, "Ghetto Child," is a bit more ambitious, featuring Shaggy and the Boys Choir of Harlem. Southern rapper Petey Pablo took the quick route to the top of the rap game in the early 21st century, making his breakthrough in 2001 with debut single and North Carolina anthem 'Raise Up.' The muscular hype-track helped push his first album, Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry, toward the Top Ten and garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album. To begin with, only two songs feature guests, and one of those songs, "Let's Stay Home Tonight," is a rather straightforward remix for the rap audience featuring Petey Pablo. It's a sparse and succinct album, no doubt rushed to capitalize on the success of "Stutter" and the holiday season as well. He continued in early 2019 with the release of the single "19 Summers.Better Days comes less than a year after Joe's popular breakthrough with "Stutter," the collaboration he did with Mystikal that turned more than a few rap listeners onto his style of urban soul. After his release in early 2014, he remained under the radar until the end of the decade, when he issued his official comeback, Keep on Goin'. While in prison, he managed to issue a mixtape, 2012's Carolina #1. At this height in his career, Pablo was sidelined with legal troubles stemming from a gun charge and went on hiatus. Produced by Lil Jon, the club favorite was certified platinum and rose into the Top Ten, his highest charting to date. The album's lead single, "Freek-a-Leek," was another hit for the rapper.
Three years and multiple delays later, Jive issued Pablo's sophomore effort, Still Writing in My Diary: 2nd Entry. Certified gold and nominated for a Best Rap Album Grammy, the set made Pablo another of the overnight superstars produced by the early-2000s Dirty South boom. The album featured three Timbaland tracks as well as productions by Prophecy, Chucky Madness, Abnormal, and Pablo himself. Il brano esplode nel sud nellestate del 2001, per poi espandersi e far sì che Petey realizzi un video, in onda su MTV. Questultimo realizza per lui la strumentale per il singolo Raise Up. Eventually peaking at number 25 on the pop chart and number nine on the R&B list, "Raise Up" remained on the charts for months and set the stage for Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry, Pablo's debut album. Gli viene subito offerta una collaborazione in Lets Get Ready, album di Mystikal, e gli viene presentata Missy Elliott, che a sua volta presenta Timbaland. It wasn't long before the video was all over MTV and the song was creeping up the Billboard charts. "Raise Up" first gained airplay in late summer 2001, beginning in the South and spreading from there.
Jive made the collaboration happen, and the label found itself with a sure-fire debut single, "Raise Up." Jive then gave Pablo a chance to shine on Mystikal's Let's Get Ready album, and around this same time, Missy Elliott introduced Pablo to Timbaland, who had been curious about the rapper ever since hearing him on the "Whoa!" remix.
While at a club in New York, Jive's head of A&R happened to hear Pablo dropping some rhymes with Black Rob and subsequently signed him to a contract. While there, he managed to befriend the likes of Busta Rhymes, Mystikal, and Black Rob his recorded debut was on a remix of the latter's "Whoa!," which caught the attention of many, including Timbaland. Although he continued to release mixtapes, he wouldn't return with an official studio effort until 2018 with his third set, Keep on Goin'.īorn Moses Barrett III in Greenville, North Carolina, he eventually moved to New York when he became serious about breaking into the rap industry. His follow-up single and album - the explicit "Freek-a-Leek" from 2004's Still Writing in My Diary: 2nd Entry - extended his mainstream popularity before legal troubles put his music career on hold until 2011. Southern rapper Petey Pablo took the quick route to the top of the rap game in the early 21st century, making his breakthrough in 2001 with debut single and North Carolina anthem "Raise Up." The muscular hype-track helped push his first album, Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry, toward the Top Ten and garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album.