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Released March 29, 2005

What's more surprising? That Pleasure and Pain, One Twelve's fifth album, is not a greatest-hits compilation named after a song off their 1996 debut, or that it comes with a parental advisory label? In nearly a decade of existence, the group has amassed enough charting singles to warrant a concise best-of, and not many artists coming up with them during the mid-'90s are still active. In the wake of parting with P. Diddy and Bad Boy, they've taken the opportunity to work with a mostly new pool of collaborators, including Mario Winans, Jermaine Dupri, and Bryan-Michael Cox, who each pitch in once or twice. They remain self-sufficient otherwise, with member Daron Jones handling a good portion of the production duties. The result isn't much different from the previous albums, with a few standout singles and album tracks surrounded by a generous amount of forgettable moments, and a similar ratio of upbeat numbers and ballads to match. The parental advisory label (a first for the once squeaky-clean group) can actually be pinned on previously unlikely collaborators Three 6 Mafia. (Who could've ever predicted that a line as forthright as "Is she gonna chew me up or she gon' swallow up my nads" would ever appear in one of their songs? Nobody.) ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

TRACKS

1. Intro
2. Let This Go
3. What If
4. U Already Know
5. Damn
6. Nowhere
7. Last to Know
8. I'm Sorry (Interlude)
9. My Mistakes
10. If I Hit
11. The Way
12. We Goin' Be Alright
13. Why Can't We Get Along
14. That's How Close We Are
15. Closing the Club
16. What the Hell Do You Want
17. God Knows

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