The few guest rappers on Brothers From Another (Daz, Memphis Bleek, Pooda Brown) fit the Gunners' personality vacuum.
On Young Gunz' 2004 debut Tough Luv, the duo was constantly overshadowed by infinitely more talented guests like Jay-Z and Beanie Sigel. 2", featuring one of Kanye's unbearable loverman verses and a hook with John Legend doing his best to impersonate the world's most generic lounge singer. The one glaring exception is the unbelievably obnoxious Kanye West pianos-and-string ballad "Grown Man Pt. On his two tracks, for instance, Swizz Beats forgoes hype-man yelling and Jay-Z vocal samples for amazing swirling pianos on "Beef" and canned electro synths on lead single "Set It Off". The tracks that Hamilton didn't produce have the same lustrous throb. Every album released under Roc-A-Fella Records in one place. Tough Luv came out in early 2004, and it was followed up just over a year later with Brothers from Another. On the thug love ballad "Don't Keep Me Waiting" guests 112 coo like a prepubescent New Edition while Duran Duran cheese guitars and a popping slap bass swoop trough the track. Find top songs and albums by Young Gunz including No Better Love (feat. "It's the Life" has a spare, empty shuffle and a ghostly, sustained synth wash. "Don't Stop (YG Party)" supports a rippling marimba loop with eerie, rolling bass tones.
Hamilton knows his way around a drum machine, and his tracks for Brothers From Another have a slick, chilly electro pulse, like the skeletal booming drum machines of mid-80s Marley Marl with the rough edges polished off and replaced them with a glossy futuristic sheen. The album belongs instead to producer Chad "Wes" Hamilton, who turns in seven of the album's 12 tracks. Young Chris: So why exactly is the album called Tough Luv I mean, first off, Im a very non-violent individual and I feel as if love is something that is only experienced once. And so Brothers From Another doesn't really belong to either Chris or Neef.