Street Life

Street life may refer to:

Street Life (Fiend album)

Street Life is the third studio album released by New Orleans rapper, Fiend. It was released on July 6, 1999 for No Limit Records and was produced by Beats By the Pound. Though not as successful as his previous album, There's One in Every Family, it still managed to make it to No. 15 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

Music video

There was a music video for the single "Mr. Whomp Whomp" which was a big success and one of his signature songs peaking at No. 14 on the Top/ Hip Hop Singles & Tracks chart. There were also music video for the single " Talk It How I Bring It". This was Fiend's last album released for No Limit, as he left the label and started his own, Fiend Entertainment. As of 2005, the album has sold 268,715 copies.

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Street Life (Roxy Music song)

"Street Life" is the opening track of English rock band Roxy Music's third album Stranded, their first album with Eddie Jobson, who replaced Brian Eno. It was released as a single in the UK in November 1973 and reached number 9 on the charts. Its non-LP B-side "Hula Kula", an Hawaiian-like instrumental composed by Phil Manzanera, was re-released on "The Thrill of It All" boxset.

Covers

Bassist John Taylor, also known as Johnny, during his solo period after leaving Duran Duran in 1997, organized a Roxy Music tribute album called Dream Home Heartaches: Remaking/Remodeling Roxy Music (released 1999). "Street Life" was covered by Gerry Laffy and Simon Laffy, credited as Phantom 5.

The band Def Leppard covered "Street Life" on their album Yeah!.

Morrissey also performed the song during some European festival dates during his 2006 tour.

Personnel

Street Life (The Crusaders album)

Street Life is a studio album by the American jazz band The Crusaders. It was a top 20 album on three Billboard charts and represents the peak of the band's commercial popularity. The title track, featuring singer Randy Crawford, was a Top 40 pop single (#36) and became the group's most successful entry on the soul chart (#17). It was #5 on the UK charts.. "Street Life" also hit the disco chart, peaking at #75, and was re-recorded by Doc Severinsen with Crawford reprising her vocal for the opening sequence of the noir crime drama Sharky's Machine, directed by Burt Reynolds in 1981. This faster paced and more powerful version was also featured in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, released in 1997. The song is also featured in Grand Theft Auto V.

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Street Life (Patrick Street album)

Street Life is the eighth album by the Irish folk band Patrick Street, released in 2002 on Green Linnet.

Recording and production

It was produced by Ged Foley and Patrick Street, and recorded at the following studios:

The regular band members (Andy Irvine, Kevin Burke, Jackie Daly, Ged Foley) were joined by Steve Cooney (percussion), Gay Dalzell (harmony vocals), Matt McElroy (banjo), Bruce Molsky (fiddle), Bernie Nau (piano) and Cal Scott (alto horn & cornet). The album was arranged by Patrick Street, except for brass arrangements by Cal Scott.

Critical reception

Street Life received positive reviews from folk music critics.

In Green Man Review, Pat Simmonds said the following:

Talk a Good Game

Talk a Good Game is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Kelly Rowland. Formerly titled Year of the Woman, the album was released on June 14, 2013 through Universal Republic and its affiliated record labels. Incorporating a base core of R&B and pop music, Talk a Good Game was influenced by the likes of Whitney Houston, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder amongst other of Rowland's idols. Rowland wanted the album to be a celebration of womanhood and referred to the record as her most personal album to date. On the album, she co-wrote all but one song, "Freak", a cover of the same 2010 song by entertainer Jamie Foxx from his fourth studio album Best Night of My Life. A deluxe edition, and Target-exclusive edition of the album featuring bonus tracks, was released simultaneously alongside the twelve-track standard edition.

Talk a Good Game was promoted with live renditions of the album's songs during the Lights Out Tour, a co-headline concert tour between Rowland and The-Dream. The album was also preceded by the release of the lead single, a Mike Will Made It and Marz production called "Kisses Down Low" which peaked in the top-thirty of the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. A second single, The-Dream-produced "Dirty Laundry", was released a month before the album and documents Rowland's initial jealousy of the success Beyoncé attained in her solo career following the release of her debut album Dangerously in Love (2003); the song also talks about the domestic abuse that Rowland suffered during a previous relationship.