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The first single, "S.E.X.," about a pubescent teenage girl dealing with her hormones, becaume a moderate hit on the R&B charts. Jennings' second album The Phoenix, was released in August 2006 and debuted at No. It wasn't until the album's second single, "Must Be Nice," was released that the album finally took off and became a hit. The album's first single was "Stick Up Kid," which was only moderately successful. Lyfe's debut album, Lyfe 268-192 in August 2004 (268-192 had been his inmate number). He eventually moved from Toledo to New York City to further pursue a music career, and wound up signing with Columbia Records. Later in 2003, Lyfe independently released a four-song EP, What Is Love. Although he was booed when he walked onstage, he eventually won the crowd over and eventually won five amateur night victories in a row. In January 2003, he performed on amateur night at the famous Showtime at The Apollo in Harlem, New York. Jennings was released from prison in December 2002 and pursued a music career. Lyfe began playing music in prison and even started a prison music program. During his time in an Ohio prison, Lyfe discovered Erykah Badu's 1997 album, Baduizm, and it rekindled his love for music. In October of the same year, when he was 19, Lyfe was sentenced to a 10-year prison term on arson charges. In February 1993 he was arrested on drug charges. He later joined a group called The Dotsons with two of his cousins and his older brother, Jay. Lyfe began singing at a young age in a church choir in his hometown of Toledo. It could have been tighter and more approachable, but few debuts hold this much promise.Real name: Chester "Lyfe" Jennings. A couple tracks refuse to get to the point and too much narration gives sections of the album the repeat listening appeal of an audio book.
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The metaphor-free track is a stark portrayal of "this crazy, lazy lady" who is using a baby for revenge, and when Jennings sings about his friends dismissing him as a worrywart, it captures with crystal clarity the isolation that so many experience when confronting a crisis.
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It's only one side of what is a most definitely a complicated story, but "Greedy"'s tale of being chased by the cops for child support is a chilling can of worms few artists could open so confidently. "Made Up My Mind," "She's Got Kids," and "Must Be Nice" all display the kind of Gil Scott-Heron realism meets D'Angelo smokiness and Bilal soul-searching that had Jennings take the amateur title five times at the Apollo, but "Greedy" is the album's centerpiece. What makes it worth it is Jennings' honest, poignant, and warm writing, empowering at times and occasionally heartbreaking. A couple listens later and you'll get him, but few debuts are this wandering and deep from the get-go. The biggest problem with this smooth, thinking singer's debut is that there's no prologue or "hey, how ya doing?" Instead, Jennings vividly pours out his troubles with little background, assuming you're down. Quit worrying, because what Lyfe Jennings has to say is worth hearing, well presented for the most part, and you only have to excuse some overeagerness. Opening with an intro and going right into a talky interlude, you just know Lyfe 268-192 is a heavy-with-message, ambitious album that's going to flirt with ponderous disaster.