She also received four NAACP Image Award nominations for Outstanding New Artist, Outstanding Female Artist, Outstanding Song ( Gettin" In The Way) and Outstanding Album (Who is Jill Scott). Jill has already received two Grammy nominations for Best R&B album ( Who is Jill Scott) and Best New Artist. The album was a success, its now Platinum, with the first single, Gettin" in the Way, doing well in the charts.Īfter spending most of 20 touring Scott has released a live album, Experience: Jill Scott.
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However full credit was given to her when the track won Best Rap Performance at the 1999 Grammies.Īfter further collaborations with Eric Bennet, Will Smith and Common Scott went on to write her own album, Who is Jill Scott. The door appeared to have been shut on Scott. The next day Amir called Jill to tell her that the song would be their next single, however Erykah Badu would sing it, to bring some "star quality" to the track.
The band invited her to the studio one night and she came in and wrote the lyrics of the song that would become You Got Me.
It was at this show that The Roots drummer, Amir, would hear her and tell producer, Scott Storch. She established her own spoken word cabaret, Words and Sounds. Her style developed, 'Eventually some parts would be spoken, some sung', as she put it. Jill also began touring with the Canadian cast of Rent. Scott started reading her poetry at the local October Gallery, while scrubbing theatre toilets to pay the bills. Hailing from North Philadelphia she has a unique sound that has one her much critical acclaim. After the 17th track, "Show Me," there are 26 four-second blank tracks, followed by a 44th track, the bonus song, "Try." One minute after this song ends, there is a hidden selection, an alternate version of "Love Rain" that features Mos Def.Jill Scott is the sultry R&B singer behind one of the best albums of recent years, Who is Jill Scott. (The CD marks a new complexity in the use of bonus and hidden tracks. There is no existing slot in R&B/hip-hop into which this album fits, which only means a new one will have to be created.
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But with "Honey Molasses," things turn sour, and on "Love Rain" and "Slowly Surely," she frees herself, concluding that "One Is the Magic #" and toward the end of the album moving on to social concerns with "Watching Me" and "Brotha." This narrative structure gives Scott ample room to express a variety of emotions and to display her "verbal elation." Like many poets, she sometimes delights in a torrent of words for their own sake, but it's hard to fault her when the result is such a fully articulated world view. She also breaks painfully from an old boyfriend in favor of the new one ("I Think It's Better"), but mostly she celebrates the relationship ("A Long Walk," "He Loves Me (Lyzel in E Flat)," "It's Love," "The Way"). Scott describes a relationship from many different angles, including an encounter with her boyfriend's ex in a super market ("Exclusively") and her warnings to that girl (or some other) to stay away ("Gettin' in the Way"). But the album has a story to tell, and for the most part it is a love story. That gives her range to pursue her interests, which include a strong sense of her north Philadelphia neighborhood and such idiosyncratic concerns as food, with many meals listed in detail. Producer Jeff Townes (of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince fame) and his team of associates from the A Touch of Jazz production company set up sympathetic musical backgrounds for Scott that support her without requiring her to fit her spoken and sung excursions into strict meter. With any luck, she will retain her sense of the power of words, since the best parts of this album are the ones when she lets fly, drunk on her verbal virtuosity. Though start-up label Hidden Beach and its manufacturer/distributor Sony may have been hoping for another Lauryn Hill in this eloquent young African-American from a Middle Atlantic state, Jill Scott turns out to be something of a hip-hop Patti Smith, a street poet who, on her first album, hasn't quite made the transition from spoken word performances to music, despite an excellent singing voice.
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