Anderson .Paak didn’t make fans wait long for his follow-up to Oxnard. After releasing his Aftermath debut last November, the Grammy winner has returned with a new album titled Ventura.
Paak’s 11-track LP includes collaborations with André 3000, Smokey Robinson, Brandy, Jazmine Sullivan, Lalah Hathaway, Sonyae Elise and the late Nate Dogg.
Check out Paak’s Ventura stream, cover art and tracklist below.
1. Come Home f. André 3000
2. Make It Better f. Smokey Robinson
3. Reachin’ 2 Much f. Lalah Hathaway
4. Winners Circle
5. Good Heels f. Jazmine Sullivan
6. Yada Yada
7. King James
8. Chosen One f. Sonyae Elise
9. Jet Black f. Brandy
10. Twilight
11. What Can We Do? f. Nate Dogg
Last Album wasn’t that great, this album similar to his earlier stuff, soulful and a banging from beginning to end
Oxnard was cool. I liked a lot of it. No skips but nothing exceptional. Ventura is what I want to hear from him. Soulful musicianship
This clown can release an album every 6 months on Aftermath but Jon Connor can’t even get an album out. FUCK AFTERMATH. FUCK DRE.
Man that is so true. Connor should have blown up way before now.
Truuuuuue Jon Connor had some collab projects in the works to that got ended when he signed
That’s on Connor man. The guy is being stagnant on his own terms for his own reasoning unfortunately.
You’re still gonna rate connors album 4/10 and say it’s garbage so what’s the point anyways
This is supposedly the album Dre has little to no input on, and didn’t care for. Can we admit Dre doesn’t have a good ear for music anymore? This is leaps and bounds better than. Oxnard.
But lime others above me said, Dre sucks for not letting Jon Connor do his thing. Dre is too busy executive producing Oxnard, Revival, and other not good albums. Dre hasn’t had a dope production in ages, his work on Compton album was forgettable, and only us Hardcore Dre fans knew about its existence. The general public wasn’t even aware of Dres album… Dude need to drop some killer music to fix his reputation, which has just gone downhill the past decade. It’s okay to live off the past hits, but if that’s the case, then stop releasing low quality DRE. Just let it be, and live off the classics you helped create.
Dre spent Something like 3 days on revival, he mixed a whopping two tracks and one 15 second skit was his only production. If dre was involved with revival it would have been fantastically better. And also paak is gotta be Dre’s biggest departure from hip hop since before NWA of course he’s going to be out of line with that sound not to mention he’s in his 50’s now. And how can you call yourself a dre fan and shit on Compton on top of not knowing all this? Compton is a gold standard when it comes to mixing where and how the fuck are you hearing otherwise?
Okay. Compton may have good mixing, but it’s not even somewhat close to be a tiny little bit of a classic album, which is disappointing from Dre. Both chronics are classics, the documentary, GRODT, xzibit Dre productions, productions for Jay-Z were classics… Need I go on? I’m a huge Dre fan, but I’m not a STAN. I can admit that he has been releasing not so special music for years now, and that Compton was a decent album, and not so great for someone with a track record as amazing as Dres. The only song on that whole album that even sounds like signature Dr Dre is Talking To My Diary, amazing beat, great story and everything, but felt sadly cut short. But, that’s the sound us Dre fans are in love with. Cinematic, clean, hard hitting, gangster, west coast.
You spit truth about Connor. But disagree on Compton. IMO the reason Compton wasn’t accepted was because it wasn’t what we expected. We were expecting songs like “Hey young world” and got “Talk about it.” But the the Album to me was still better than half the trash I hear on the radio. I’m not giving up on Dre just yet, I’m gonna go on a limb and say that Compton was the equivalent to “Dre presents Aftermath.”
I actually completely agree with you, and 100% agree that it’s the equivalent to “Dre presents aftermath”. That’s a perfect comparison I’d say, and I hope your right. I hope Dre has some serious classics to come out.
That’s just like not true at all though man and I have no idea where you even heard that. And the fact 17 people believed it and liked it, the world is naive
What do you mean it’s not true? It’s just my personal opinion of the work Dre has released and worked on the past decade.
Not sure how I feel about mixing on this. But few listens in albums pretty dope so far!
way better than the mediocre-ness (by Paak’s standards) that was Oxnard. Not quite Malibu, but I’ll take it
Dope album. Paak is dope as hell. This one is much better than Oxnard.
Wouldn’t call this a hiphop album…but it is def dope, and exactly the type of soulful shit I like. I liked Oxnard too…I consider that the rap album and this the soul album. Same dude 2 different genres, both solid albums…respect to Paak on 2 dope releases in such a short time
I don’t care what any 1 says, Oxnard was dope & this was a great follow up 2 that. Jet Black, Come Home, & Make It Better r my top 3 favorites. Regardless whether Dre is on the projects or not, Paak is that dude, very talented overall!