| Yes Lawd! | ||||
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| Released | October 21, 2016 | |||
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| Length | 48:50 | |||
| Label | Stones Throw | |||
| Producer | Knxwledge | |||
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| Singles from Yes Lawd! | ||||
Yes Lawd! is the debut studio album by American neo soul [1] duo NxWorries, which consists of vocalist Anderson .Paak and producer Knxwledge. It was released on October 21, 2016, by Stones Throw Records. [2] It is supported by four singles, "Suede", "Link Up", "Lyk Dis", and "Get Bigger / Do U Luv".
On June 19, 2016, member Anderson .Paak confirmed that NxWorries' debut studio album is finished and set for release. [3] On July 25, 2016, Paak's manager, Adrian Miller, confirmed that the album was to be titled Yes Lawd!. [4] On September 19, 2016, the third single to NxWorries' debut studio album "Lyk Dis" was released, along with the track listing and release date for the album. [5] On October 14, 2016, the duo released the album a week early for streaming on Apple Music. [6]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 7.7/10 [7] |
| Metacritic | 80/100 [8] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [9] |
| The Guardian | [10] |
| The Irish Times | [11] |
| Mojo | [12] |
| NME | [13] |
| The Observer | [14] |
| Pitchfork | 8.2/10 [15] |
| Record Collector | [16] |
| Uncut | 8/10 [17] |
| XXL | 4/5 [18] |
Yes Lawd! received generally favorable reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, it received an average score of 80, based on 22 reviews. [8] NME magazine's Jordan Bassett hailed it as "a sprawling, languid affair, running to 19 tracks of soulful hip hop", [13] while Jim Carroll of The Irish Times called it "an all-beats-blazing set of the funk". [11] It was deemed an "R&B lover and millennial must-have" by Vibe , [19] and Rolling Stone named it the 15th best R&B album of 2016. [1] Robert Christgau gave the album a three-star honorable mention in his column for Vice , indicating "an enjoyable effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well treasure". [20] He cited "Another Time", "Lyk Dis", and "Fkku" as highlights while calling Anderson .Paak a "love man [who] projects [a] minimum modicum of empathy with his salable burr yet somehow sounds cuddly even so". [21] Marshall Gu from PopMatters was less enthusiastic, writing that the album "wants to be a neo-soul version of Madvillain or The Unseen or Donuts , that is, a stoner's dream collection of fragments of songs, less focused on hooks and more focused on sounds". [22]
Credits adapted from BMI. [23]
All tracks produced by Knxwledge.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Intro" | 0:48 | |
| 2. | "Livvin" |
| 2:45 |
| 3. | "Wngs" |
| 1:36 |
| 4. | "Best One" |
| 3:14 |
| 5. | "What More Can I Say" |
| 2:36 |
| 6. | "Kutless" |
| 2:07 |
| 7. | "Lyk Dis" |
| 2:30 |
| 8. | "Can't Stop" |
| 2:01 |
| 9. | "Get Bigger / Do U Luv" |
| 4:03 |
| 10. | "Khadijah" |
| 2:02 |
| 11. | "H.A.N." |
| 2:49 |
| 12. | "Scared Money" |
| 2:57 |
| 13. | "Suede" |
| 2:54 |
| 14. | "Starlite" |
| 3:23 |
| 15. | "Sidepiece" |
| 3:46 |
| 16. | "Jodi" |
| 1:09 |
| 17. | "Link Up" |
| 3:31 |
| 18. | "Another Time" |
| 2:27 |
| 19. | "Fkku" |
| 2:11 |
| Total length: | 48:50 | ||
| Chart (2016) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA) [24] | 48 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [25] | 63 |
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [26] | 82 |
| New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ) [27] | 1 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [28] | 97 |
| US Billboard 200 [29] | 59 |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) [30] | 3 |
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