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Nice and Smooth (album)

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Recorded
  
1988−1989

Length
  
54:31

Genre
  
Hip hop

Producer
  
Nice & Smooth

Released
  
May 16, 1989 (1989-05-16)

Label
  
Fresh/Sleeping Bag Records (U.S.) LPRE-13 (first pressing) Priority/EMI Records (U.S.) 0499 2 53887 2 5 P2-53887 (second pressing) Priority/Virgin/EMI Records (Europe) 7243 8 40117 2 7 V2-40117

Nice & Smooth is the debut album of the hip-hop duo Nice & Smooth. The album is notable for its sense of humor and comedy rhymes. Although the album contains explicit lyrics on it, it is also at its best with Greg Nice's crazy rhyming with humor and Smooth B's slow lover rhymes. The release singles of the album are "Early to Rise" and "Funky for You." This was the duo’s only release on Fresh/Sleeping Bag Records before it signed with Def Jam Recordings sub-label RAL Records. It was included in The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums. It was one of three titles acquired by Priority Records when Sleeping Bag went out of business in 1992.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Early to Rise"
  2. "Something I Can't Explain"
  3. "Perfect Harmony"
  4. "We are No. 1"
  5. "No Delayin'"
  6. "Funky for You"
  7. "Skill Trade"
  8. "More and More Hits"
  9. "O-o-h, Child"
  10. "Hit Me"
  11. "Gold"
  12. "Dope Not Hype"
  13. "Nice & Smooth"
  14. "Dope on a Rope"
  15. "Sum Pimped-out Shit"

Samples

  • "Early to Rise"
  • "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe
  • Theme of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids by Ray Ellis & Norm Prescott
  • "Perfect Harmony"
  • "Groove Me" by King Floyd
  • "We Are No. 1"
  • "Sir Nose D'Void of Funk" by Parliament
  • "Woman to Woman" by Joe Cocker
  • "No Delayin'"
  • "Hiache" by Lafayette Afro Rock Band
  • "The Show" by Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh (vocals by Slick Rick)
  • "Starfish and Coffee" by Prince
  • "Nautilus" by Bob James
  • "Funky For You"
  • "Impeach the President" by the Honey Drippers
  • "Do That Stuff" by Parliament
  • "Heartbeat" by War
  • "More and More Hits"
  • "All Night Long" by the Mary Jane Girls
  • "Ooh Child"
  • "Don't Change Your Love" by the Five Stairsteps
  • "Ooh Child" by The Five Stairsteps
  • "Have Your Ass Home By 11:00" by Richard Pryor
  • "Hit Me"
  • "Kool Is Back" by Funk Inc.
  • "Gold"
  • "Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins
  • "It's Ecstasy When You Lie Down Next to Me" by Barry White
  • "Dope Not Hype"
  • "UFO" by ESG
  • "Amen Brother" by the Winstons
  • "Nice and Smooth"
  • "Zungguzungguguzungguzeng" by Yellowman
  • "Dope on a Rope"
  • "Zungguzungguguzungguzeng" by Yellowman

    • Personnel

  • Peter Bodtke — Photography
  • D-Square — Engineer
  • DJ Teddy Tedd — Turntables
  • Nice & Smooth — Main Performer
  • Greg Nice — Producer, Mixing
  • Ivan “Doc” Rodriguez — Engineer
  • Smooth B. — Producer, Mixing
  • Howie Weinberg — Mastering

    • References

    Nice and Smooth (album) Wikipedia
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