album, even the ridiculous "women, you are the greatest" frontloaded tracks, but this one's especially awesome - it does the R Kelly trick of using absurdly pedestrian rhymes that sometimes aren't even trying to sound "composed" ("I've been around the world and back, like 'what up'/east side to west side tourin' like 'what up'") to an incredibly persuasive effect: you feel like you're listening to a guy speak from the heart. With a wonderfully smooth beat and gorgeous production, I mean jazz-cafe frilly with just a little hint of hip-hop (courtesy of Ja Rule, whose verse is actually pretty great), I cannot get enough of this increasingly moving song.
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)