The Senior
He also consulted a number of new collaborators, including Scott Storch, Bryan-Michael Cox, R. Kelly, Brandon Howard and Joe Little III, the former of which – like Taylor – contributed three songs to the album.[1] During an interview with 106 & Park, Ginuwine stated that Missy Elliott and Tweet were among the producers that worked on the album, however their contributions didn't make the final cut.[3] AllMusic editor John Bush wrote the album "finds the R&B jack-of-all-trades attempting to get in on the game with tracks that mine urban lingo for potential hit combinations [...] As before, Ginuwine rises above most of his dozens of imitators in the contemporary R&B realm, with a set of productions that fit his voice perfectly and rate as slightly edgier than the norm."[4] Entertainment Weekly's Craig Seymour found that "on the finest tracks of his fourth set, R&B balladeer Ginuwine delivers cliched slow jams with convincing emotion.Finally over the grief of his parents' passing, which colored the mellow soul of 2001's The Life deep blue, Ginuwine is once again a randy R&B; stud, offering pony rides to all female comers.