TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: RH Factor

TITLE: Hard Groove

1hr 12min total-104.1mb

RELEASE DATE: 2003-05-20

RIP DATE: 2003-04-09

02 Common Free Style              5:57

03 I'll Stay (Featuring D'Angelo) 7:49

06 Poetry (Featuring Q-Tip and    5:48

08 Forget Regret (Stephanie McKay)3:51

09 Out of Town                    3:58

11 Kwah/Home (Featuring Anthony   5:59

13 Juicy (Featuring Renee         6:34

Another HOT PRE Release From Team RNS

Props to CHR for the EP as I had no idea

this was coming and its blazn' HOT Jazz

with many of today's artists.

Also, a special shout out to diss

whereever you are!

http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/verve/pro

Roy Hargrove is a GRAMMY-award winning

recording artist whose first disc as a

jazz leader was released in 1990.

Considered by many to be one of the

premiere trumpet players on the music

scene today, has long had a fascination

for, and love of, R&B, Funk, and classic

Soul music. Hard Groove is the

realization of a musical dream come

true. The RH Factor is the identity that

composer/arranger Hargrove has coined for

the musical collective he's assembled

for Hard Groove. Like a 21st Century

Quincy Jones, the trumpeter has

brought together a diverse array of

musicians from his recent collaborative

efforts to create an organic musical

street party at the corner of hip-hop

and bop, encompassing many of his

musical passions-the slow-grinding soul

of Funkadelic's "I'll Stay" with a sultry

vocal by D'Angelo; Common's free-styled

rap intro on the aptly titled "Common

Free Style"; both Q-Tip and Erykah

Badu bringing their distinctive hip-hop

and R&B sounds to the party-like funk of

On the vocal side, Hard Groove also

contains stellar performances by

D'Angelo background vocalists Anthony

Hamilton ("Kwah" / "Home") and Shelby

Johnson ("How I Know"); a fine turn by

Stephanie McKay ("Forget Regret"); and

former Motown recording artist Renee

Hard Groove speaks of yesterday, sounds

like today, and looks like the future!

Roy himself says it best in his liner

notes: This recording is something I've

wanted to do for quite some time. The

music is a representation of what can

happen when people looking in the same

direction get together, with

dedication, focus, and positive