Art and Life | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Studio album by Beenie Man | ||||
Released | July 11, 2000 | |||
Genre | Reggae fusion, Dancehall, Reggae | |||
Length | 70:14 | |||
Label | Virgin | |||
Producer | Salaam Remi, Tony Kelly, The Neptunes | |||
Beenie Man chronology | ||||
|
Professional ratings | |
---|---|
Aggregate scores | |
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 77/100 |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | |
RapReviews | (8/10) |
Rolling Stone |
Art and Life is a Grammy Award-winning album by dancehall deejay Beenie Man, released on July 11, 2000. He garnered commercial success in the States with this album, with the help of the reggae fusion hit single "Girls dem Sugar". It marked one of the first successful reggae fusion albums from a dancehall artist.
It received the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 2001. It sold more than 400,000 copies.
Art and Life received mostly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 8 reviews.