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  • Issued : 30 Jun 2009

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Genre : Dance & Soul Catalogue Number : 2.512968
Format : CD Label : Atlantic
Issued : 30 Jun 2009 Item sourced from : USA
Number of Discs : 1

If Tomorrow Comes

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HMV Review

Bed-Stuy rapper Maino spent nearly a decade behind bars before he launched his rap career. Thanks to numerous appearances on mixtapes, the Maino Is the Future tagline started appearing about 2004, just one year after his release. Switching labels, scrapping a finished album, and not releasing his official debut for five years brought this future into doubt, but it was really just a case of the stars aligning because If Tomorrow Comes... is a killer way to start a career. Over an especially good Swizz Beatz production, he identifies himself as different right from the start, declaring it's better to give than receive on the opening Million Bucks. Feeling good about the success of others isn't common in gangster rap, but Maino is hardcore all the way and will later offer I contemplate, they ain't never hear you screams with a pillow to your face on Kill You, and by the way, he's speaking to a female (You gonna look better in my trunk girl, layin' funny). If Tomorrow Comes... believably lives in both of these worlds because it is a concept album, one that follows Maino from crack addict parents, to prison, and on to parole where he's determined not to fail. His poetic explanations of why going back to the joint is no alternative are hardly Scared Straight! material. Instead of shock value, he speaks to the soul-crushing joylessness of prison and what an important role pride plays in his life, and how much that differs from the average rapper's idea of respect. On the key track Runaway Slave he spits How they gonna remember me?/What up be my legacy?/How they gonna talk about me/When they pour Hennessey. Elsewhere, while reenacting his first meeting with future mentor DJ Kayslay, he's surprisingly humble, unwilling to boast but entirely confident his demo will achieve. Lighter moments appear along the way with the infectious and snide Hi Hater and the T-Pain-produced victory number All the Above keeping the album from becoming too heavy. After all that time in prison, Maino has few answers but he has a plan, and it happens to be a righteous plan. The way he maps it out on If Tomorrow Comes... is vivid, cold, hard, hopeful, sometimes even thoughtful, but most of all, it's riveting. As Kayslay says during one of the interludes, You need to be congratulating the dude. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi

Credits

Dawne M. Hill(Vocals),  Eritza Laues(Vocals),  Jimmy Starnes(Vocals),  Josh Gannet(Guitar (Bass)),  Just Blaze(Keyboards),  Push! Montana(Vocals),  Andrew Wright(Engineer),  Charlemagne(Producer),  James "Nard" Rosser(Producer),  Just Blaze(Producer),  Justice League(Producer),  Lenwood Reed(Producer),  Nick Nastasi(Engineer),  Steve Kang Cruz(Producer),  Swizz Beatz(Producer),  Teraike "Chris Styles" Crawford(Producer),  Vaughn Beck(Engineer),  Wesley "G.Q. Beats" Brown Jr.(Producer),  "You Can Ask" Giz(Mixing),  Andrew Wright(Mixing),  Chris Gehringer(Mastering),  Fabian Marasciullo(Mixing),  Michael Schreiber(Photography),  Nick Bilardello(Art Direction),  Nick Bilardello(Design),  Ryan West(Mixing),  T-pain(Composer),  Wesley "G.Q. Beats" Brown Jr.(Instrumentation),  Groovy Lew(Stylist),  Brian Ranney(Package Production),  Jean Nelson(Associate Executive Producer),  Lanre Gaba(A&R),  Marsha St. Hubert(Marketing),  Rae Nimeh(Tracking),  Rob Gold(Art Manager),  Rob Gold(Art Producer),  Sydney Margetson(Publicity)

Songs

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    1
    Million Bucks  (02:57)
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    2
    Scene 1: If Tomorrow Comes...  (01:19)
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    3
    Back to Life  (03:14)
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    4
    Remember My Name  (03:46)
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    5
    Gangsta  (04:35)
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    6
    Scene 2: The Meeting  (00:39)
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    7
    All the Above  (05:15)
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    8
    Here Comes Trouble  (03:14)
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    9
    Scene 3: Hating  (01:09)
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    10
    Hi Hater  (03:37)
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    11
    Let's Make a Movie  (04:02)
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    12
    Kill You  (03:05)
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    13
    Scene 4: Contemplating  (00:48)
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    14
    Runaway Slave  (03:58)
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    15
    Soldier  (04:11)
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    16
    Hood Love  (04:12)
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    17
    Floating  (03:26)
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    18
    Scene 5: The Phone Call  (00:44)
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    19
    Celebrate

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