俳優としても活躍しているLAの Kiana Ledé のファースト・スタジオ・アルバムです。
現代の R&B を象徴するようなスロウで少しダークでありながらも、メロウとソウルも同居しているような、素晴らしいアルバムです。
Kiana はアフリカン、アメリカ原住民、メキシカンが混じっている、これもまた現代の US を象徴するような出自のようです。本来私たちはホモ・サピエンスという種1つであって、人種とか関係ないんですけどね。でも US はそれが差別につながって問題なわけです。
カリフォルニアのレモアという、LAでもサン・フランシスコでもない、その中間で生まれているので、それほど裕福ではなかったのかもしれません。
2011年からプロとして音楽活動を始め、いくつかの EP を経て、これがデビュー・アルバムになります。
Ari Lennox や Lucky Daye、6lack などのゲストを迎え、堂々のパフォーマンスです。
打ち込みだけではなく、アコースティック楽器も使い、サウンド的にも心地よいものになっています。
- Cancelled.
- Written by Derrick Milano, Kevin White, Kiana Ledé, Michael "Boston" McCall, Mike Woods, Patrick McManus, Reese Hinton, Roark Bailey
- Produced by Rice N' Peas, Milano, Bailey
- Movin.
- Written by Archer, Chelsea Lena, Frederic Alexander Brewer, Ledé, Pierre Jamerson
- Produced by Archer
- Mad at Me.
- Written by Amanda Reifer, Andre Benjamin, Antwan Patton, Ashley Leone, White, Ledé, Woods, Patrick Leroy Brown, Raymon Ameer Murray, Rico R. Wade
- Produced by Rice N' Peas
- Chocolate. (featuring Ari Lennox)
- Written by Archer, Lennox, Lena, Ledé, Jamerson
- Produced by Archer
- Forfeit. (featuring Lucky Daye)
- Written by David Debrandon Brown, Milano, Dustin Bowie, White, Ledé, McCall, Woods, McManus, Hinton, Bailey
- Produced by Rice N' Peas, Bailey
- Second Chances. (featuring 6lack)
- Written by Cam Griffin, Milano, White, Ledé, McCall, Woods, Hinton, Ricardo Valdez Valentine, Bailey
- Produced by Rice N' Peas, Griffin, Milano, Bailey
- Crazy.
- Written by Milano, White, Ledé, McCall, Woods, McManus, Hinton, Bailey
- Produced by Rice N' Peas, Milano, Bailey
- Plenty More.
- Written by Amanda Atoui, Avital Margulies, Jose Deverze, White, Ledé, McCall, Woods, McManus
- Produced by Rice N' Peas
- Skiterlude.
- Written by Archer, Milano, White, Ledé, Woods, McManus, Hinton, Bailey
- Produced by Archer, Milano, Rice N' Peas, Bailey
- Labels. (featuring Moneybagg Yo and Bia)
- Written by Bianca Landrau, Demario Dewayne White Jr., Milano, James, Mtume, White, Ledé, McCall, Woods, McManus, Hinton, Bailey
- Produced by Rice N' Peas, Bailey
- Honest.
- Written by Milano, White, Ledé, McCall, Woods, Hinton, Bailey
- Produced by Rice N' Peas, Bailey
- Feel a Way.
- Written by Milano, White, Ledé, McCall, Woods, McManus, Hinton, Bailey
- Produced by Rice N' Peas, Milano, Bailey
- Good Girl. (featuring Col3trane)
- Written by Griffin, Cole Basta, Milano, White, Ledé, Woods, Hinton, Bailey
- Produced by Rice N' Peas, Griffin, Bailey
- Attention.
- Written by Anton Göransson, Isabella Sjostrand, Ledé, Woods, Steven Franks, Tommy Brown
- Produced by Göransson, Ledé, Woods, Mr. Franks
- Separation. (featuring Arin Ray)
- Written by Archer, Ray, Milano, White, Ledé, Woods, McManus, Hinton, Bailey
- Produced by Archer, Rice N' Peas, Bailey
- Protection.
- Written by White, Ledé, Mayila Jones, McCall, Woods, McManus
- Produced by Rice N' Peas
- No Takebacks.
- Written by Milano, White, Ledé, McCall, Woods, McManus, Hinton, Bailey
- Produced by Rice N' Peas, Bailey
Samples
- "Mad at Me" contains elements of "So Fresh, So Clean", written by Andre Benjamin, Antwan Patton and David Sheats.
- "Labels" contains elements from "Juicy Fruit", written by James Mtume.
- "Honest" contains elements from "Have You Ever?", written by Diane Warren and performed by Brandy Norwood.
- "Cancelled" contains elements of a TikTok called "I Am a Single Queen" performed by Jasmine Orlando, and "Long Red" written by Leslie West, Felix Pappalardi, John Ventura and Norman Landsberg.
