Because of You (Ne-Yo album)
Because of You is the second studio album by American recording artist Ne-Yo, released on April 25, 2007 by Def Jam Recordings in the United States. It features guest contributions from rapper Jay-Z on "Crazy" and singer Jennifer Hudson on "Leaving Tonight". Because of You debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, selling over 250,000 copies in its first week. Upon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from most music critics, based on an aggregate score of 74/100 from Metacritic. It won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 2008 Grammy Awards.
Critical reception
The album has drawn mainly positive reviews, with Entertainment Weekly magazine noting, "Indeed, the album is an unmistakable attempt to channel [Michael Jackson's early work such as "Off the Wall"]...and the effort often pays off beautifully...Ne-Yo's lithe falsetto puts the many others who've been labeled Jackson-esque to shame." PopMatters.com called the album "a masterpiece of a record" and praised the title track's blend of "upbeat modern-day funk tempo, beautifully melodic backdrop and love-sick (in a good way) vocals...[it's] the perfect lead single off an album that is filled with number-one hits".Slant Magazine also compared the album's sensual ballads to Janet Jackson.
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by D-stroy
Vitamin D
by: D-stroyintroducing the nigga that be boosting
he brought the band he brought the orchestra
the people would like to know.....
[Verse One]
WHY THEY CALL YOU
D-STROY?? cause i'm known for shucking fit up
snuffing the cut funky like the stuff in ya but
enough with corrupt rhyme's and the voice drum's hunted
get confronted for one hundred you bum's fronted
redundant dumb shit you submit made stock's plument
i knot stomach's with def lepoard's arm and drumsets
my lung's swung it lyric's ain't done blunted
or drunk shit which one of you crumb's WANT IT
this natural shits imaculate layback and sit
accurate for battle's quick if you flap ya lip
when i rap you quit acting slick pack and split
or i'll get at you quick like attacking pit's (DOGS)
you'll get thrown from a balcony in london
will be bloody lonesome "IT'S A HOMERUN"
In a zone crumb final score i keep vinyl raw
extra strength tylenol for dinosaur
lion's rah nominee's fond of dee honor me
with novelty bring out the dead and set zombie's free (BRAIN'S)
power's for austin rugged like clothes on orphans
richard dawson survey says this kid is awesome
[Chorus]
Vitamin D.s.t.r.o.y.
take 2 in the morning you'll be saying oh my
get up feeling great for real's no lie
dont knock it till you go try it's alright
[Singing]
so fresh i wanna be
so fresh a hip hop star
so fresh i wanna to rock's
so fresh show's near or far
I love to blow up spot's all day
i need you to rock this way
D.s.t.r.o.y....Oooo.yyyy.
D.s.t.r.o.y...Oooo.yyyy.
Oooyyyyy
[Verse Two]
i do damage daily to scare rebel's duplicator's dare devil's
dead dentals of dudes that are 1 dimentional
melts metal's with snare treble's bass at decibel
higher then air level's on point like a decimal
dynamic devine how im defined
demands dummies decline deactivate design
REWIND ya decomposed and diagnosed as decayed
deemed deadly by d.j.'s your careers delayed
so dangerous so dangerous
down the ditch on the double every stranger dip
no debating with D-stroy's dictatorship
have dude's shook like that final destinations flick
concerto of a desparado
i do damage dialy to my bad i did that befo
decapitate all derelects with dialect that's definite.
my duties dominance over degenerates with deficit
document in my dairy i diehard with drop kick
the undisputed D dastardly's diabolic
don't get it distorted I deflect defects to no degree.
"YO DUN DUN" im done so take to of ya