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Back of My Lac | 
 enlarge | Artist: J. Holiday
Label: OOP Really Sux
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 9559
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 11805
UPC: 094631180521
EAN: 0094631180521
ASIN: B000V9KECY
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Back Of My Lac | | • | Ghetto | | • | Thug Commandments | | • | Bed | | • | Betcha Never Had | | • | Laa Laa | | • | Come Here | | • | Be With Me | | • | Suffocate | | • | Fatal | | • | Without You | | • | Pimp In Me | | • | Thank You | | • | Fallin' |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
J Holiday has some pimp in him, no doubt, and the late-disc track "Pimp In Me" isn't the only reason to think so: When this suavest of 2007's break-out crop of smooth R&B crooners isn't causing the ladies to swoon (check out "Bed," the radio hit that rides a vibe similar to Rihanna's echo-y "Umbrella" all the way behind closed doors and under the covers), he's establishing himself as a tough guy with a tender streak. It's a stroke-of-brilliance approach for a new artist--instead of becoming a standard-issue sweetie who ladles on the charm but can't do battle with urban music's big boys, he deftly straddles two styles on this debut. Silky, classic-sounding slow jams ("Suffocate," "Without You") suit him, but so do street cred-raising reminiscences of his gritty Washington, D.C., youth ("Ghetto," "Thug Commandments"). Holiday goes for broke, circling the broad R&B landscape, but he doesn't dilly-dally: Back of My 'Lac delivers pimp-worthy yet pretty songs that get straight to the point, the point being that this is an artist worth raising your modern-music hopes over. --Tammy La Gorce
Product Description
some pop music. i don't know...
Album Description
2007 debut album by the DC born R&B singer who was signed to Capitol Records and scored none other than uber producer Rodney Jerkins to helm his first sessions. Holiday (nee Nahum Gryms) comes from a Gospel background, with his mother being an ordained minister and his eldest sister having sung backing vocals for Crystal Waters. Includes the addictive debut hit single 'Bed'.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 65 more reviews...
~~I love it~~ November 7, 2008
I love the c.d. I like most of the songs on the c.d. that is hard to say these days because most c.d.'s there is only usually one or two songs that you listen to but I like: Song: 1,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,12,13 and that is almost the whole c.d. so I think its worth buying.
 just ok July 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this isn't a bad album, but it's not great. might need better producers or someone to write better songs.
Ok album July 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Songs are bad, but alot of them sound alike...not a bad cd, but not great
 R&B!!!!!! May 17, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Finally a real R&B album is released. It's been way too long. The only weak song is "Laa Laa". Other than that, I can listen to it all the way through.
Holiday not observed May 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The first time I remember hearing of Nahum Grymes (better known as J. Holiday) was on this stupid MIMS song called "Girlfriend's Favorite MC". He has since become the latest addition to the R&B thug era. Even so, I must admit that he does it a little better than some of the other proponents (Ray J; Pretty Ricky; The-Dream). But that still doesn't say much about his debut album Back of My Lac'.
Not to keep bringing The-Dream up so much, but I was all set to compare J. to him because they have a lot of things in common: they're both trying to be that thug, most of their songs are ridiculously raunchy, and they both refuse to give up their ages (and you can tell Dream had something to do with "Bed" because of the "ey-ey-ey" part). But the reason why J. is more tolerable than Dream is that J. actually can sing. Still, he's a little too sleazy, and many of the songs are club tracks that go nowhere, especially the first three (the title track, "Ghetto" and "Thug Commandments").
And then you have "Laa Laa", which is hard to relate to because it's telling his girl how to get high like him. Then, of course, there are raunchy numbers like the corny "Come Here" and the statutory "Betcha Never Had"; and sorry, but "Bed" is annoying. Another concern is "Thank You", where the chorus starts off fine with: "I wanna thank you for the time we spent" but then it goes into "To show my appreciation I wanna bang your back until the morning comes `round."
The only songs I can really stand on here are "Suffocate", "Fatal" and the final track, "Fallin'". One more thing, since "lac" is broken off from the END of "Cadillac", the apostrophe should be at the beginning of it, not the end. All spelling lessons aside, if you're a 21-year-old woman and/or you watch 106 & Park religiously, J. Holiday's album is for you; otherwise, leave it alone.
Anthony Rupert
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