Scorpion

Acerca de Scorpion

Resumen

Scorpion es el segundo álbum de estudio de la rapera estadounidense Eve. Fue lanzado por Ruff Ryders Entertainment e Interscope Records el 6 de marzo de 2001 en Estados Unidos. El título del álbum es una referencia al signo zodiacal de Eve, Escorpio. Presenta el exitoso sencillo "Let Me Blow Ya Mind", un dúo con Gwen Stefani, que ganó el primer Grammy Award a la Mejor Colaboración Rap/Cantada, una nueva categoría en ese momento. Scorpion fue un éxito crítico y comercial, debutando en el puesto número cuatro en el US Billboard 200 con ventas de 162.000 copias en la primera semana y convirtiéndose en su segundo álbum número uno consecutivo en la lista Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Scorpion fue certificado después como Platino por la Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) el 10 de mayo de 2001, por envíos de un millón de copias. Scorpion también fue nominado a Mejor Álbum de Rap en los 44th Grammy Awards en 2002. A partir de 2007, vendió 1.500.000 unidades en Estados Unidos. Reception David Browne de Entertainment Weekly le dio al álbum una A, declarando: "More than just a dramatic improvement over its predecessor, Scorpion is the first female hip hop project that even attempts to fill the void left by The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill." El editor de AllMusic Jason Birchmeier encontró que en el álbum "Eve brings even more muscle to her follow-up album, Scorpion. Her rhymes flow just as smoothly here as they did on her debut, and she sounds even more confident than before [...] At 16 tracks, this album doesn't overreach and really doesn't have too many surprises. There are a few flawed moments where the choruses aren't as catchy as they intend to be, but for the most part Eve plays it safe. If you liked her first album, you'll like this one even better."

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Notable quotes

“Farming insects creates just 1 percent of the greenhouse gases generated by farming an equivalent mass of beef or pork.”
— PLOS.org An Exploration on Greenhouse Gas and Ammonia Production by Insect Species Suitable for Animal or Human Consumption Dennis G. A. B. Oonincx, Joost van Itterbeeck, Marcel J. W. Heetkamp, Henry van den Brand, Joop J. A. van Loon, Arnold van Huis Published: December 29, 2010http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014445
“Al Azif [...] that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos’d to be the howling of daemons.”
— H.P. Lovecraft, The History of the Necronomicon (1927).
“Siquidem et per naturam pleraque mutationem recipiunt, et corrupta in diversas species transformantur; sicut de vitulorum carnibus putridis apes, sicut de equis scarabei, de mulis locustae, de cancris scorpiones.”
— Many creatures go through a natural change and by decay pass into different forms, as bees [are formed] by the decaying flesh of calves, as beetles from horses, locusts from mules, scorpions from crabs.
“To a first approximation, all multicellular species on earth are insects.”
— N. E. Stork 2007. Biodiversity: world of Insects. Nature 448, 657-658 (9 August 2007)
“Empowering rural women can significantly increase productivity, improve rural livelihoods and reduce hunger and malnutrition.”
— 2013 UN report as quoted in How Eating Insects Empowers Women
“Happy the Cicadas live, since they all have voiceless wives.”
— Xenarchus (Grecian poet), quoted in Charles Darwin, Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1876).

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