Music Review

Welcome to the Real World (1995)

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Lead Performance: Frankie Knuckles; Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap

The legendary DJ who helped create house music teams up with singer Adeva to form Frankie Knuckles. Welcome to the Real World is full of surprisingly mundane grooves. Sure, the beats throb and the vocals are nothing less than supersonic, but these tracks lack one essential ingredient for creating clubland nirvana: joy. B-

Originally posted May 26, 1995 Published in issue #276 May 26, 1995 Order article reprints

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