Hot & Wet
One-timeP. Diddyprotégés One Twelve (as the CD packaging spells it) take several chances to tout their current alignment with Def Jam on their fourth album,Hot & Wet. For the most part, though, the quartet sticks to business over boasts--and the job, of course, is rockin' and freakin' your body all night long. The emphasis is on romance, even when guestLudacrispromises to "make you do things you ain't even know you could do" on two mixes of the title song. A better than average seduction disc,Hotchanges up its rhythms enough to allow even for casual daylight listening; check the requisite dancehall number, "Na Na Na Na" (featuring toasting bySuper Cat) and the mildly electro-influenced "Give it to Me." Fine singing completes the package.--Rickey Wright