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Brooke Valentine's New Single! (Update On Her Too)
Brooke Valentine's new single "D-Girl" is available to listen to at www.rhapsody.com.
Or you can d/l it at http://www.brooke-valentine.com/
D-Girl (Dope Girl) has already had its video shot, its pretty good. I'm excited to see a video. I see it being another semi-big hit.
Heres an update on her from that site.
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The article below looks like a new biography for Brooke Valentine. The title for her new album is Physical Education and has guests Pimp C, Krayzie Bone & Tyrese on some of the songs. Other solo songs are also named. Check it out:
Without taking a break, Brooke returns in 2006 with her sophomore set, Physical Education, an album that more clearly boasts her vocal and songwriting talents and appearances from Tyrese, Pimp C, and Krazyie Bone. "A lot of songs on Chain Letter were real gimmicky and didn't call for a lot of ad-libs or singing," Brooke explains about the set co-written with Subliminal Entertainment head Deja. "And because of that, some people thought I couldn't sing. That won't happen this time. A lot of people who have heard the new album are flipping out."
Several ballads on Physical Education give Brooke an opportunity to showcase her skills honed from growing up singing solos in her grandmother’s church, talent shows, and studio sessions beginning as a young teen. Brooke sparks chills as she belts her way through Baby, which is essentially her version of DAngelos 1996 sensuous mid-tempo favorite Lady. In Rub It In, a sexy, conversational bump and grind duet with Tyrese, she lets the multi-media superstar know that she’s fully aware of his infidelity, but decidedly deals with it. She captures the essence of Jodeci on the booming slow jam Show Stopper and thumping homie, lover, friend track Can’t Be Your Girl. Brooke recorded a solo version of Rub It In for Chain Letter, but it did not make the album. But when Deja played the song for Tyrese, he loved it, so they arranged to have him sing it with Brooke. “It was fun working with Tyrese,” Brooke says. “He was real laid back, real cool. Because of the songs subject, I think performing it as a duet made it stronger.”
Brooke’s vocal styling stands out, especially in era dominated by either over singing or thin, airy vocals. “On this album, I stepped up and did more vocal production,” Brooke explains. “Deja runs a company, so he could not be in the studio with me all of the time. But it worked out.” “Because I wrote on every song, I already knew how I wanted it to sound.” For her Girlfight fans, Physical Education includes numerous staple hip-hop infused tracks. The albums first single, D Girl, featuring Pimp C, is a clever, metaphorical anthem fueled by Brookes deep, sultry vocals, and a sample of the N.W.A. classic Dopeman. “Guys always say, I need a girl thats down for me,” Brooke says about her motivation for writing the song. “Thats a dopegirl. Guys are going to be like, Thats the kind of girl I like.” Brooke also puts a spin on another hip-hop great, Scarfaces F**k Faces from his 1998 My Homies album. In the original, Scarface and the other featured rappers, talk about sexing gold digging women. In Brookes version, she tells her man that she has become accustomed to and desires the finer things because he has spoiled her. Krayzie Bone guests on My Hood. And Brooke quips an impressive fast-paced rap like flow on the snap music offering Sticky Icky.
All of the talk of sex and love helped prompt the album title Physical Education. “This album is way sexier”, Brooke says. “Chain Letter wasn’t really that sexy. P.E. is about living, being physical and going through this life with different emotions. I really put a lot of myself into. A lot of my life experiences. My confessions, things that I never told a soul. I’m telling the world.” But exposing such vulnerability did not deter Brooke from stepping out of her comfort zone. “It is scary,” Brooke confesses, “but I’m ready to live life, try new things, and hear what the fans have to say and let them hear what I have to say. I feel like that’s the way that we grow in life.”
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