Yes Lawd! is the debut studio album by American neo soul[1] duo NxWorries, which consists of vocalist Anderson .Paak and producer Knxwledge. It was released on October 21, 2016, by Stones Throw Records.[2] It is supported by four singles, "Suede", "Link Up", "Lyk Dis", and "Get Bigger / Do U Luv".

Yes Lawd!
Studio album by NxWorries
Released	October 21, 2016
Genre	R&B hip hop funk neo soul
Length	48:50
Label	Stones Throw
Producer	Knxwledge
NxWorries chronology
Link Up & Suede (2015) Yes Lawd! (2016) Yes Lawd! Remixes (2017)
Singles from Yes Lawd!
"Suede" Released: February 10, 2015 "Link Up" Released: December 4, 2015 "Lyk Dis" Released: September 19, 2016 "Get Bigger / Do U Luv" Released: October 6, 2016

Release and promotion

On June 19, 2016, member Anderson .Paak confirmed that NxWorries' debut studio album is finished and set for release.[3] On July 25, 2016, Paak's manager, Adrian Miller, confirmed that the album was to be titled Yes Lawd!.[4] On September 19, 2016, the third single to NxWorries' debut studio album "Lyk Dis" was released, along with the track listing and release date for the album.[5] On October 14, 2016, the duo released the album a week early for streaming on Apple Music.[6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.7/10[7]
Metacritic	80/100[8]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[9]
The Guardian	[10]
The Irish Times	[11]
Mojo	[12]
NME	[13]
The Observer	[14]
Pitchfork	8.2/10[15]
Record Collector	[16]
Uncut	8/10[17]
XXL	4/5[18]

Yes Lawd! received generally favorable reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, it received an average score of 80, based on 22 reviews.[8] NME magazine's Jordan Bassett hailed it as "a sprawling, languid affair, running to 19 tracks of soulful hip hop",[13] while Jim Carroll of The Irish Times called it "an all-beats-blazing set of the funk".[11] It was deemed an "R&B lover and millennial must-have" by Vibe,[19] and Rolling Stone named it the 15th best R&B album of 2016.[1] Robert Christgau gave the album a three-star honorable mention in his column for Vice, indicating "an enjoyable effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well treasure".[20] He cited "Another Time", "Lyk Dis", and "Fkku" as highlights while calling Anderson .Paak a "love man [who] projects [a] minimum modicum of empathy with his salable burr yet somehow sounds cuddly even so".[21] Marshall Gu from PopMatters was less enthusiastic, writing that the album "wants to be a neo-soul version of Madvillain or The Unseen or Donuts, that is, a stoner's dream collection of fragments of songs, less focused on hooks and more focused on sounds".[22]

Track listing

Credits adapted from BMI.[23]

All tracks produced by Knxwledge.

Sample credits

• "Livvin" contains samples of "Tributo Ao Sorriso", written by Alen Terra, Yan Guest, Jorge Amiden, and Luiz Junior, and performed by Karma.
• "Wngs" contains samples of "Ghetto Money", written by Linda Creed and Thom Bell, and performed by Ahmad Jamal.
• "Best One" contains samples of "Lord You're My Everything", written by Thomas Whitfield and performed by the Thomas Whitfield Company; and samples of the film The Players Club.
• "What More Can I Say" contains samples of "What More Can I Say", written by Bradley Bobo, Clifford Curry, Santos Domínguez, and Terry Long, and performed by The Notations; samples of "Good to Get Away", written and performed by Brenda Nicholas and Philip Nicholas; and samples of "Nights Like This", written by Jesse Johnson and Keith Lewis, and performed by After 7.
• "Kutless" contains samples of "Lady", written and performed by Gino Vannelli.
• "Lyk Dis" contains samples of "Mr. Me, Mrs. You", written by H. B. Barnum and Robert Young, and performed by Creme d'Cocoa; and contains samples of "Ebony Woman", written by Morris Bailey and performed by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.
• "Can't Stop" contains samples of "I Think My Heart Is Telling", written by John H. Fitch Jr. and Reuben Cross, and performed by Evelyn "Champagne" King; and samples of the television series Rick and Morty.
• "Get Bigger / Do U Luv" contains samples of "The Love You Gave to Me", written by Greg Adams and Webster Lewis, and performed by Webster Lewis; samples of "In Summertime", written and performed by Ronnie McNeir; and samples of "Pussy", written by Shawn Carter, Robert Kelly, and Devin Copeland, and performed by Jay Z and R. Kelly featuring Devin the Dude.
• "H.A.N." contains samples of ; and samples the film The Players Club.
• "Scared Money" contains samples of "(I Could Never Say) It's Over", written by Johnny Kemp and Mauro Malavasi and performed by B. B. & Q. Band; and interpolations of "Midnight", written by Ali Muhammad, Jonathan Davis, and Malik Taylor, and performed by A Tribe Called Quest featuring Raphael Wiggins.
• "Suede" contains samples of "The Bottle", written by Gil Scott-Heron and performed by Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson.
• "Starlite" contains samples of "God Is So Good to Me", written by Clyde G. Carter and performed by Gwen Carter.
• "Jodi" contains samples of the "Funky Bottoms" titled episode from the Kung Faux television series.
• "Sidepiece" contains an interpolation of "Won't Do", written and performed by J Dilla.
• "Another Time" contains samples of "Bless You With My Love", written by Barbara J. Trotter and performed by Heaven Sent & Ecstasy; and samples of "Your Love", written by Kenni Ski, Allen Anthony, and Shawn Carter, and performed by Christión and Jay Z.
• "Fkku" contains samples of "Absolutely Beautiful", written and performed by Eddie Robinson; and samples of the video "Dear person that pissed me off..." by Krissychula.

Charts

References

Bibliography

• Christgau, Robert (2000). Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan. ISBN 0312245602.
• Christgau, Robert (March 3, 2017). "On Syd's Depth and Resonance: Expert Witness with Robert Christgau". Vice. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

External links

• Yes Lawd! at Discogs (list of releases)
• https://www.WhoSampled.com/NxWorries/