Title: O'Ryan Artist: O'Ryan Release Date: 10/19/2004 Label: Tug Entertainment/Universal UPC: 602498633236 Genre: Rhythm & Blues Styles: Urban, Contemporary R&B, Teen Pop Moods: Yearning, Intimate, Sentimental, Sweet, Brash Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Introducing
2. Jus Anotha Shorty
3. Take It Slow
4. In a Bad Way
5. Bad Situation
6. Anything
7. Going Out Your Way
8. I'm Coming
9. 45 Minutes
10. She Loves the Club
11. Shorty
12. Smellz Like a Party

Year Type Label Catalog # 2004 CD Tug Entertainment/Universal 000315302

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O'Ryan entered the increasingly overcrowded PG-13-rated urban teen sweepstakes in 2004 with his self-titled debut, which positions him alongside the likes of Marques Houston, B2K, Cassidy, Lloyd, Mario, and Tug Entertainment labelmate Young Rome as potential heirs to Usher's long and prosperous reign over the teenage girls of America. It's tempting to dismiss O'Ryan for this reason alone. In fact, it's a downright welcoming proposition! After all, how many of these over-produced urban teens does America need unleashed in a given year, especially when Usher is already oversaturating the media outlets with his endless run of hits? Grounds for dismissal are all the more relevant when you also factor in all the female equivalents (Beyoncé, Ashanti, Ciara, et al.). But hold on for a moment before you snidely dismiss O'Ryan's debut. Believe it or not, it's really a good album. It sports an 18-and-under mentality, granted, but if that's what you're looking for, look no further: O'Ryan is as good as, if not better than, recent urban teen albums by Ciara, Lloyd, Cassidy, and Marques Houston, to just name a few of the more commercially successful releases of mid-to-late 2004. There aren't too many big-name collaborators here. Houston co-writes and -produces a couple standout tracks, and J-Kwon and Trackboyz collaborate with O'Ryan on another standout track, the late-album club track "Shorty." But that's about it for brand names -- in other words, there's no behind-the-scenes R. Kellys here, just a strong team effort by a large cast of writers and producers and the velvety-voiced O'Ryan. It all amounts to a well-done album that runs a modest 12 tracks in 45 minutes and swings with a nice sense of diversity from slow-grind party starters to slow-dance ballads to yearning make-out songs to party-up club numbers. So even though these PG-13-rated urban teen albums seem to be a dime a dozen in 2004, there's no use complaining as long as they're as well done as O'Ryan's debut. ~ Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide

Name Credits Adonis Vocals (Background) Adonis Stropshire Vocals (Background) Anthony "TOPDAWG" Tiffith Associate Producer Bam Producer, Instrumentation Big Tank Producer Boo Yung Performer Bro. Don Muhammad A&R Bruce Carbone A&R Chris "TEK" ORyan Engineer Chris Stokes Executive Producer Gerard Harmon Producer Henley Regisford, Jr. Executive Producer James Malachowski Guitar Jean-Marie Horvat Mixing John D. Norten Engineer Keith Wilkins Producer Ketrina Askew Executive Producer Kimo Easterwood Photography Leslie Burrell Executive Producer Loren Dawson Producer, Instrumentation Maad Phunk Instrumentation Marcus Hodge Keyboards Marques Houston Producer, Executive Producer Mischke Producer Mischke Butler Engineer, Arranger, Producer, Vocal Producer, Vocals (Background) N8 Engineer, Producer, Instrumentation, Vocals (Background) O'Ryan Vocals (Background), Instrumentation Omari Grandberry Executive Producer Rufus Blaq Producer Saint Nick Producer, Instrumentation, Engineer Sandy Brummels Creative Director Steve Russell Vocals (Background) Tony Reyes Guitar Tony Scott Producer, Instrumentation Traci Tolmaire A&R Trackboyz Producer, Engineer WonderWoman Vocals (Background)