IV : Blazing Hot
Nice & Smooth · 1997
37 min · 12 tracks · East Coast hip-hop
Playful Bronx rap voices ride bright grooves with the easygoing bounce that made Nice & Smooth distinctive.
Top tracks — play these first
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Blazing Hot — The opening title track sets up the duo’s lively vocal interplay in a compact introduction to the album.
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Boogie Down Bronx / BK Connection — Its borough-spanning premise places Nice & Smooth’s Bronx identity within a wider New York rap conversation.
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Same Old Brand New Style (I Can't Wait) — The title frames the duo’s return as a balance between familiar style and reinvention, a useful lens for hearing their fourth album.
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DWYCK (live) — The live closer revisits their Gang Starr collaboration, bringing a piece of the duo’s earlier history into the album’s closing stretch.
Tracklist
Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.
- 1 Blazing Hot 2:37
- 2 NY (intro) 0:09
- 3 Boogie Down Bronx / BK Connection 4:03
- 4 I'll Be Good to You 4:13
- 5 Let It Go 3:21
- 6 Lockdown 3:34
- 7 Scared Money 4:24
- 8 Hot Shit 3:11
- 9 Mad Love 3:23
- 10 Same Old Brand New Style (I Can't Wait) 4:36
- 11 Busta Rhymes Intro 1:20
- 12 DWYCK (live) 2:42
Reference: Wikipedia · MusicBrainz · Wikidata
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