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Pain Is Love
Hip-Hop · 2001 · 16 tracks

Pain Is Love

The definitive blueprint for early-2000s radio. Gritty, gravel-voiced verses meet lush R&B hooks in a polished collision of street ego and pop sensibility.

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The record that owned the radio in 2001 with every 'thug-love' anthem you still remember the words to.

A high-gloss collision of street-hardened bravado and radio-ready romanticism.

Pain Is Love · vs · Ja Rule
Confident+2.1σ

Confident saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 16 Tracks
01
Pain Is Love (skit)
1:18
02
Dial M for Murder
3:33
03
Livin’ It Up
4:17
04
The Inc.
3:57
05
Always on Time
4:05
06
Down Ass Bitch
5:31
07
Never Again
4:19
08
Worldwide Gangsta
3:20
09
Leo (skit)
2:19
10
I’m Real (Murder remix)
4:13
11
Smokin and Ridin
4:51
12
X
5:02
13
Big Remo (skit)
0:20
14
Lost Little Girl
5:01
15
So Much Pain
5:03
16
Pain Is Love
5:04
Moments Worth Waiting For
The seamless transition from the gritty verses to Ashanti's soaring, crystalline hook on Always on Time.
The Stevie Wonder 'Sir Duke' sample on Livin' It Up providing a bright, celebratory contrast to Ja's raspy delivery.
The somber, candle-lit atmosphere of the title track where the bravado drops for genuine existential questioning.
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