As U Were

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As U Were
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Studio album by Lyrics Born
Released October 26, 2010 (2010-10-26)
Genre Hip hop
Length55:37
Label Decon, Mobile Home Recordings
Producer Lyrics Born, Jake One
Lyrics Born chronology
Everywhere at Once
(2008)		As U Were
(2010)		Real People
(2015)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 63/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Christgau's Consumer Guide Five Pointed Star Solid.svgFive Pointed Star Solid.svgFive Pointed Star Solid.svg [3]
Pitchfork 6.8/10 [4]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]

As U Were is the third solo studio album by Lyrics Born. It was released on Decon and Mobile Home Recordings in 2010. It peaked at number 89 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. [7]

Lyrics Born Asian-American rapper

Tsutomu "Tom" Shimura, better known by his stage name Lyrics Born, is a rapper and producer. He is one half of the duo Latyrx with Lateef the Truthspeaker.

Decon

Decon is a New York-based creative studio. Housing production, creative, strategy and music divisions, the company creates campaigns on behalf of brands and advertising agencies.

<i>Billboard</i> (magazine) American music magazine

Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style, and is also known for its music charts, including the Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular songs and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows.

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 63% based on 8 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: films, TV shows, music albums, video games, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged. Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It has been described as the video game industry's "premier" review aggregator.

Track listing

No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Kontrol Phreak" Lyrics Born 3:32
2."I Wanna B W/U" (featuring Lateef)Lyrics Born, Jake One 3:37
3."We Live by the Beat"Lyrics Born4:14
4."Coulda Woulda Shoulda" (featuring Sam Sparro)Lyrics Born4:40
5."As U Were Reception"Lyrics Born0:53
6."I've Lost Myself" (featuring Joyo Velarde)Lyrics Born, Jake One5:44
7."Lies X 3"Lyrics Born4:23
8."Born-E-Oh's!"Lyrics Born2:03
9."Pushed Aside/Pulled Apart" (featuring Lateef)Lyrics Born, Jake One4:11
10."Oh, Baby!"Lyrics Born3:28
11."I'm the Best (Funky Fresh in the Flesh)"Lyrics Born3:09
12."Block Bots" (featuring Clyde Carson and Trackademicks)Lyrics Born3:02
13."Pillz 'Lude"Lyrics Born0:55
14."Pillz" (featuring The Gift of Gab)Lyrics Born4:25
15."Something Better" (featuring Francis and the Lights)Lyrics Born3:46
16."Fake ID"Lyrics Born0:14
17."(What Happened 2 Our) Love Affair"Lyrics Born3:30

Charts

Chart (2010)Peak
position
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums ( Billboard ) [7] 89

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References

  1. 1 2 "As U Were by Lyrics Born". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  2. ↑ Bush, John. "As U Were - Lyrics Born". AllMusic . Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  3. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Lyrics Born". Christgau's Consumer Guide . Retrieved October 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ Kelly, Zach (November 29, 2010). "Lyrics Born: As U Were". Pitchfork . Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  5. ↑ Aspray, Benjamin (December 7, 2010). "Lyrics Born: As U Were". PopMatters . Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  6. ↑ Eddy, Chuck (November 16, 2010). "As U Were". Rolling Stone . Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  7. 1 2 "Lyrics Born: Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard . Retrieved October 13, 2018.
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