Music Review: Ric Hassani’s ”The Prince I Became” Is A Royal Meal In Its Own Class! No Cap

The singer popularly know as the African gentleman, Ric Hassani a few days after dropping Thunder Fire You and Everything, comes through with the full load down, The Prince I Became album.ric hassani The 17-track album includes collaborations with the likes Nicky Jam, Sauti Sol, Zoro, Frank Edwards, Kuami Eugene, Fumbani Changaya, and many others. This new project comes a year after his Love & Christmas“ EP which featured five tracks.
Firstly, every piece of this album is yummy especially taking it from the angle of Thunder Fire You, that we are so excited about each part of the entire work.
As we have always known, Yes he gets the voice as he reinforces this on the opening track titled Everything. Awwnn, he is the perfect loverboy. He really knows how to make a girl feel special as he sings about his love interest on this track. If a guy ever wants to woo a girl, this would be the perfect song. In fact guys should come to Ric and take wooing classes (lol). His vocal prowess is awesome, done at the perfect pace and possessing the perfect rhythm. The backup singers are just WOW. It just makes his style so unique. Wait who would not love this song when they listen to it, Common on.
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It really takes time to come out of this web of royal loving Ric is bringing our way on Body Conversation. Ladies in the building this is the perfect guy to have a body conversation with. He once again makes use of the awesome backup singers that just seem to spice up each track. There is no how a lady would Hear Ric’s voice and not want to have a body conversation, I daresay. He has the R Kelly feel.Officially as a result of this album, Rick Hassani can be said to have the art of wooing that perfect lady down to the T. Guys ensure to keep your ladies from this Prince. Because ”the Prince” he has become is a lady’s man, who knows the right words, time, beat, symphony to put out there to sweep a lady off her feet. The tracks, You’re my baby, My kind of Woman, possess that guitar feel that makes a woman swoon. I think Ric just used this album to tell the kind of lady he would want to spend the rest of his life with, His ”Wonder Woman”. As he sings in My Kind of Woman saying, She is my kind of woman, beauty so natural, she is the type that takes me want to love….Her every lights up my space, it’s a no-brainer…. Featuring Saudi on this track is a killer. Their vocals are off the chains.
Now we go on a curve here in Thunder fire you, as things seem to have come to halt as he sends thunder to his love interest. The lover boy is gone and here is a heartbroken guy who is done taking shit from his girl. This song is hit single material because I bet thunder fire you never sounded so sweet like this. He says, Thunder fire you, For all the lies you told me, Thunder fire you, For when you cheated on me, Thunder fire you, You never did deserve me, E no go better for you, So thunder fire you and your friends.
This song is downright hilarious and lovely at the same time as we see a symphonic beau in form of lyrics and beats that takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary. Way to go man. Now, this is what we call a well-thought-out album. No caps.
Angel brings back the lover boy we knew from the beginning, like Ric, definitely brought into lyrics and rhythm the exact words ladies want to hear and brought it to their doorsteps. Nicky Jam is killing us with the Spanish and this could never have sounded more romantic.
A must mention is that is a big plus on this album is the fullness and depth of each track. It’s like he knew the perfect beat to give to each lyric and the right amount of inflection and exact instrumentals. He definitely gets the 5 star which is rare. The perfect ladies man, I present to you.My only baby,  gives us a blend of rich rhythm and lyrics that transport us to a world we really desire to be. The backup singers are another major plus to each track on this album.
He is a fighter on the track My only baby, A little bird told me featuring Fumbani Changaya produces this African feel in terms of sound and instrumentation. It’s like that feeling you get when you shake your head to a song that you don’t even know the meaning but it just sounds so lovely. All My Love is still in the same line with A Little Bird Told Me. Frankly, one can never go wrong with the African beat, theme, and tune. In this midst of all these he still eulogizes his love interest. Common how sweet can a guy get, ladies common. Promising to give all his love on this track, Ric is ready to drop the last bomb…
Do lai dat  is a banger. Featuring Kuami Eugene, he just adds his extra spice that makes his songs unique, This is also another hit single that we can’t help but love, Ric plus Eugene equals musical beauty, I daresay (winks).
Ric has the song for every lover’s situation in every sense possible. He gives us reggae love on track, Rain.
Like we just feel a connection from the first track to the last track. Now, this is someone who is trying to pass across a message in a coordinated, sexy, and symphonic way.
Alluding a little from the loverboy to the perfect church boy, Ric makes us know Victory belong to Jesus. He is able to blend the church mass choir thingy in a way that just makes all and sundry connect and relate to this fantastic body of work.
Listen to this track one is literally moved to say Amen! Samuel’s Prayer and Korede are indeed on this same pedestrian.
Final Thoughts
Common give the man a beer, he has done us proud and we are overly proud of his use of instrumentation, vocal and tonal ability, synchronization, systematic arrangement of the score for each track. We can go on and on and not stop because this is a rare gem amidst all albums that have been produced so far. Listening to this album, we indeed see and come to understand the he has become because only a prince can drop this kind of content. I, therefore, present to you a Prince in Ric Hassani. Listen to the album below;

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