TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: Carl Thomas

TITLE: Let's Talk About It

RIPPER: Team RNS

187kbps avg - R&B
1hr 5min total- 92.5mb

RELEASE DATE: 2004-03-23
RIP DATE: 2004-03-28

01 Let's Talk About It (Interlude)3:38

03 My First Love                  4:04
04 She Is (featuring LL Cool J)   4:17
05 Know It's Alright (Interlude)  2:19
06 Make It Alright                4:48
07 The Baby Maker                 5:03

11 All You've Given               4:23
12 All My Love (Interlude)        1:56
13 Let Me Know                    5:36

15 That's What You Are (Interlude)2:19
16 Work It Out                    4:22

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After spending the last three years of his
career traveling to towns big and small,
meeting with and performing for people
of all sorts, Carl Thomas has taken
some profound social notes. "In the
years since my last album, Emotional,
there's been a lot of serious things
happening in the world and I don't think
people feel as safe as they once did,"
the R&B singer postulates. "People have
lost a sense of security. So what I'm
trying to do is get back to the business
of feel good music."  But by "feel
good," Carl  means to strike people
much deeper than merely on the surface;
no, what the passionate crooner seeks to
do this time with his new Bad Boy Records
CD, Lets Talk About It is massage souls.
He believes that music, like the
variety of sultry and surprisingly
upbeat soul found on Lets Talk About It,
will serve to free folk from the weight
of anxiety and tension they face.

Undoubtedly, many real Carl Thomas fans
may find themselves doing just that,
once they embrace the understanding
passion of "Make It Alright" or the
gentle, acoustic guitar glide of  "Let
Me Know."  Unlike the last go round,
Carl has been able to put his production
talent to work on Lets Talk About It,
the results are nothing short of
magnetic. And his honesty as a
songwriter who focuses on themes of
love is transformative.

We all have a higher and lower nature.
And so I'm trying with this music to
reflect my higher.  I'm not going to
pretend that I've only sat on one side of
the fence."  This time there is such a
personal effect from Carl's songwriting
and production that a few listens draw
one in so close you feel as though you
can reach out and touch him.  Along with
members of his newly founded production
team Thom Tunes, (Elijah Veto Harris &
Milton Thornton), Carl produced and
co-wrote half of the CD including the
sensual "Baby Maker" and "Dreamer," a
pretty self-reflection filled with
poetry.  I used to love to dream out
loud/stand in the middle of an open
crowd/ and everybody would see me/ but
I was just a little project child?  Lets
Talk About It also includes production by
The Hit Men (P. Diddy, Mario Yellow Man
Winans & Deric D-Dot Angeletti) and

Until this song, it was hard to imagine
Carl as the Chicago-born man-child
destined to reshape R&B, but this kind
of writing proves his depth and
colorful vision.  "These songs were the
ones I just had to get off my chest,"
Carl acknowledges. "And it was really
very different to take complete
responsibility of them. It wasn't just
about going into a booth. I had to nurture

In fact, nurturing is second nature to
Carl who now has a 4-year-old son.  And
it is this passionate relationship with
his child, that has propelled his music
to even greater heights. Carl has always
been a thoughtful musician, yet
fatherhood has sparked even deeper
feelings, thoughts that have forced him to
challenge the urban music status quo.
"What's wrong with talking about things
that affect the world and how it
connects to music? Nothing." Carl
affirms. "The way things are have little
or nothing to do with the way things
should be. As much as music can elevate,
it can pervert.  And to an extent,
music has perverted the minds of our
children. That's something we have to
admit. So, I say to myself, why not
present another option?

Carls music adds a beautiful element to
the Bad Boy roster and his creative
marriage with producer and Bad Boy CEO
Sean "Puffy" Combs is flourishing.  In
fact, that union is better than ever
Carl says, and has added unique touches
on the new CD that is sure to stir the
senses of an even wider audience. Lets
Talk About Its first single, the
catchy, "She Is," is one of Puffy's
productions and it's a song one can't
help but move to. "I'm a lot more
concerned about people dancing to my
music than I was last time," the once
balladeer-only continues. It's the
importance of the dance release, that's
really good for the soul."

It is this kind of introspection Carl
prides himself in. It's what he
believes sets him apart from the slew
of contemporary R&B singers on the
scene. "My belief system is a little
different than a lot of men. I believe
there is a Divine Universal Order and
when you make decisions outside of this
divine order, your humanity comes into
question. I'm deeply concerned with fair
play and I try to approach song writing
in the same, balanced manner. How I
feel about my place in life affects
everything it directly affects my music.
Yeah, at times I am a sentimental
sap-sucker. I can't help that. But many
of the songs I write are not about me
at the present time. Many of the songs
are about the me I'm trying to be."

And just who exactly is this new Carl
Thomas trying to be?  Carl is planted
firmly in the tradition of the
soulfulness you've come to know from
him. The concept of Lets Talk About It,
is about becoming aware of how we react
to different situations we are
presented with in life, he affirms.
"More than anything, this music is about
learning from ourselves, touching our
own souls, about being proactive and
not being afraid to talk about it."