"Let Me Hold You" with Omarion and "Like You" with Ciara are sensual highlights, and "B.O.W." is a surprisingly skeletal number that finds BW bringing it with nothing but a sparse drumbeat to support him. Everything else here works on a more adult level, often very well.
"Do You" is a "Return of the Mack"-type number that really blows Bow Wow's popularity out of proportion, but it's made for the tweenies and teens who have the rapper's Right On! pinup in their lockers. Even though the album plays off its title too much - pretending that Bow Wow is a much bigger star in 2005 than he really is - it's hard not to appreciate how this scrappy rapper keeps things interesting despite the B-level beats. Fortunately, Bow Wow gets by on his charisma, cool, and choruses, which are extremely catchy. For a rapper not known for knocking 'em dead with his lyrics, this could be a problem. There's that good old partying and swaggering that made So So Def great, but little of the glitz. With Dupri in the producer's chair for every song save one, Wanted is a So So Def release in every way but officially. Buy the album Starting at $13.09īow Wow comes back to the house of Jermaine Dupri for Wanted, an album that's solid but not stunning.
Completing a circle, Omarion toured with a reformed B2K in 2019 before striking out on his own again on 2020’s The Kinection, a sinuous collection that sees him embrace trap and dancehall sounds while keeping up with guests like Busy Signal, T-Pain, and Wale.Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. After a stint on Love & Hip-Hop: Hollywood, he returned to the charts with the slinky 2014 hit “Post To Be” and his fourth album Sex Playlist. A 2006 collaboration with Timbaland, “Ice Box” showed his increasing maturity as Omarion channeled his heartbreak over a relationship’s end into what became his biggest solo hit. The Grammy-nominated album established Omarion as an R&B powerhouse who was just as compelling on the lean and funky Neptunes-assisted “Touch” as he was on “I’m Tryna,” a slow jam that showed off his knack for being both salacious and sweet. “I’m here to make you feel good.” And that’s just what he did with 2005’s O. “That was the moment I realized I’m here to make music,” he said. As he told Apple Music, he felt like he came into his own artistically when he was able to work with The Neptunes on his first solo album. As the teenaged frontman for the R&B boy band B2K, Omarion lived every young singer’s dream of performing in front of screaming fans and lighting up the charts with hits like the frisky “Bump, Bump, Bump.” But for Omarion-who was born Omari Ishmael Grandberry in Inglewood, California, in 1984-that early success was just the beginning of a richer creative life.
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