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The 2008 album from Dwele, is Sketches of a Man. This album brings Dwele back to a more gritty, experimental, and non-overproduced sound - one that originally caught listener's ears with his first EP demo Rize released in 1998.
The downward gaze beneath the Old English D is not the only nod to the late Jay Dee on Sketches of a Man, the third album from the low-profile supplier of hooks for Kanye West's "Flashing Lights" and Common's "The People." Just as its cover bears a likeness to Dilla's Donuts, the 78-second "Workin' on It" re-creates the beat from that album's "Workinonit" and throws in traces of several other Dilla productions, including "Nothing Like This," "Two Can Win," and "Stop." A cover of Bobby Caldwell's "Open Your Eyes," a song sampled on Common's Dilla-produced "The Light," is another evident tribute. (A few years earlier, an incognito Dwele fronted a Platinum Pied Pipers update of the same song.) Make no mistake, though -- this is a Dwele album, however justified he would have been in making a thoroughly Dilla-themed affair. Sketches of a Man is both a step back and a step forward for the singer slash songwriter slash producer slash instrumentalist.
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TRACK LISTINGS
1 Sketches of a Man (Intro) 1:40
2 Free as a Bird 3:26
3 Feels So Good 3:20
4 Blow Your Mind 1:23
5 A Few Reasons (Truth, Pt. 2) 3:48
6 Open Your Eyes 3:21
7 Workin' on It 1:18
8 Brandi 3:24
9 Five Dolla Mic 1:57
10 I'm Cheatin' 3:42
11 You Won't Be Lonely 0:59
12 Love Ultra 3:51
13 Travelin' Girl 4:29
14 If You Want To / J. Tait 4:00
15 Shady 4:29
16 70's 1:48
17 Vain 4:52
18 Spiritual 2:00
19 I'm Sorry (Wake the Musical Baby) 3:47
20 Body Rock 3:09
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