Name: Gully Sit'n *
Brand: VP Records
SKU: 262604
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Gully Sit'n *

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Album: Gully Sit'n *
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Count Up Intro - (Patois)
2)	Gully Sit'n - (Patois)
3)	Bad Man - (Patois)
4)	Don't Make Me Hold You - (Patois)
5)	Gully Talk Radio
6)	We Love the Girls - (Patois)
7)	Anywhere We Go - (Patois)
8)	No Boring Gat - (Patois)
9)	Wanna Love You Baby - (Patois)
10)	Girls Alone We Want - (Patois)
11)	Rail Up - (Patois)
12)	Dem Pop Down
13)	Don't Dis No Man - (Patois)
14)	Good Over Evil - (Patois)
15)	Pain, The - (Patois)
16)	Money Haffi Make - (Patois)
17)	We Nuh Want See Unu
18)	Dem a Sissy - (Patois)
19)	Gun Bag - (Patois)
20)	Beep Out - (Patois)

Album: Gully Sit'n *
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Count Up Intro - (Patois)
2)	Gully Sit'n - (Patois)
3)	Bad Man - (Patois)
4)	Don't Make Me Hold You - (Patois)
5)	Gully Talk Radio
6)	We Love the Girls - (Patois)
7)	Anywhere We Go - (Patois)
8)	No Boring Gat - (Patois)
9)	Wanna Love You Baby - (Patois)
10)	Girls Alone We Want - (Patois)
11)	Rail Up - (Patois)
12)	Dem Pop Down
13)	Don't Dis No Man - (Patois)
14)	Good Over Evil - (Patois)
15)	Pain, The - (Patois)
16)	Money Haffi Make - (Patois)
17)	We Nuh Want See Unu
18)	Dem a Sissy - (Patois)
19)	Gun Bag - (Patois)
20)	Beep Out - (Patois)

Performer Notes

Personnel: Tru Blacks (vocals); Sherieta Lewis, Thamar Williams, Rodney Wiggan, Chantelle Smith, Carl Scharschmidt, Jevon Bailey, Donovan "Don Corleon" Bennett (background vocals); Gareth Campbell (background vocals).
Additional personnel: Tash.
Audio Mixers: Gary "Sphinx" Samuels; Christopher Birch.
Recording information: Area 39 Studios; Big Ship Studios; Champagne Recording Studios; DASECA Recording Studios; Di Block Recording Studios; Jungle Studios; The Boxx; Vendetta Master Studio.
Editor: Paul Shields.
Photographer: Martei Korley.
Unknown Contributor Role: Michael "ZJ Liquid" Brissett.
It's hard to believe that Gully Sit'n is only Assassin's second album, given the impact he's already had over the course of his still-brief career. At this point, his success is mainly due to his skill at delivering a set of already established formulas: he hasn't yet figured out how to distinguish himself completely from the other lover-lover, gunsman, ghetto-lifestyle dancehall dons, but he's still young and there are hints of originality starting to emerge from the standard-issue lyrical tropes: on this album you'll find them if you skip past the waste-of-time intro track and skim through the faux-radio interview (featuring a weirdly vituperative monologue from an uncredited Mutabaruka), at which point you'll come across an interesting experiment in 6/8 time ("Girls Alone We Want"), the eerie "Bad Man," a nicely smoldering combination track with Tash ("Wanna Love You Baby"), and the absolutely brilliant "Don't Dis No Man," on which he delivers startlingly good-hearted lyrics with razor-sharp rhythmic acumen over a spare, muscular rhythm. This being a modern dancehall album, there is of course a surfeit of filler (such as the tedious "Anywhere We Go" and the mediocre title track), but Assassin gets bonus points for delivering this year's Most Original Pickup Line in a Reggae Song: "Gal, you no boring." Recommended. ~ Rick Anderson

Professional Reviews

Uncut (p.96) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Assassin is one of the strongest voices in contemporary Jamaican music, his lyrics blending rough and rugged dancehall hype with biting social commentary..."