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4.0 out of 5 stars
Notoriously Solid. . ., September 17, 2006
Reviewing a Turbulence album isn't very hard at all. Before even hearing an album you make certain assumptions just going into it: There are no bad songs; There are no songs that will blow you away; The lyrics are top notch throughout; Lastly, you will most likely enjoy it. This has been the formula for most of the young artist's work, save for a few albums, such as Rising and Join Us, both of which were pretty much spectacular.
This rather 'cursed' (more on that later) album, Nah Sell Out actually is one of his better albums and moves further away from his lesser efforts such as Songs of Solomon and his most recent piece, Notorious. Nah Sell Out fits all Turbulence's points, there are no bad tunes, while there are several good tunes, none of them are smashers, he is lyrically and conceptually as hard as ever and I thoroughly enjoy the album.
But what's bad here? Well, this album suffers from the Charm/Penitentiary curse! It received basically no promotion at all, despite APPARENTLY not being among the pirated garbage thrown together which they typically release. Case and point being, you look through my reviews, I'm pretty much up on these things and nearly 6 months I'm just learning of this one being released. Also you can find 2 different titles for the album depending on where you look, either Nah Sell Out or Born For This, they apparently never decided what the name would be, and I've actually seen printed copies with Born for This on the cover. And that really is a shame because when an artist has as much work out and obviously is so easily saleable to reggae fans, all you need to do is make them aware of it, which Charm, in this case, never attempted to do.
But to the good, there are 14 tracks her and 14 winners. The champion of those winners is without a doubt one of the 2 title tracks, Nah Sell Out. Nah Sell Out is a track probably better suited to become the sequel to his biggest hit, Notorious, even moreso than the one he ultimately wrote for that role. Its a well powerful tune, it even has the electric feel to it which the original Notorious did as well. Nah Sell Out also receives a complete Acapella version at the end of the album.
Not surprisingly the second best tune here is the other ttle track (at least they struggled between the 2 best songs) Born For This. The tune is one of his more popular songs from his live act so I'm definitely happy to see it on an album (now if I can just get On My Way to Zion on one!). Other top tunes include the laid back inspiration of Brighter Day, the overall clever one drop of Firm which follows the similar vibe to a song from the Notorious album, Nah Run.
I also really enjoy Motherless Fatherless of course reminiscent of the vibes of Mamma Is There, one of his first hits. Check the mighty Child of Melchezidek in a chat stylee just nicely done and the Vendetta played Don't Waste My Time.
Overall, this is easily one of the artist's best albums, which is a shame because you'd never really know that to be the case because so few people know about this record. I myself ran across looking for another new album which he has released. Fans of the artist, unfortunately you may need to check this one out, because beginning to end it is one of his better pieces and if you've been paying attentino this far, you know that's saying something. Definitely Nah Sell Out or Born for This is one to keep and eye out for.
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