''Art and Life'' is the twelfth studio album by dancehall

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Beenie Man Anthony Moses Davis (born 22 August 1973), better known by his stage name Beenie Man, is a Jamaican Dancehall deejay. Biography Davis was born in the Waterhouse district of Kingston in 1973.Moskowitz, David V. (2006) ''Caribbean Popular Mus ...

, released on July 11, 2000. He garnered commercial success in the States with this album, with the help of the

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hit single "Girls dem Sugar". It marked one of the first successful

albums from a dancehall artist. It received the

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in 2001.Beenie's Art Gives Him Grammy Win
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'', 19 January 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2014 It sold more than 400,000 copies.

Critical reception

''Art and Life'' received mostly positive reviews from music critics. At

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, 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.

Track listing

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

Charts

References

Beenie Man albums 2000 albums Albums produced by Salaam Remi Albums produced by the Neptunes Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album {{Reggae-album-stub