2000 Watts Tyrese RCA, 2001   Buy it online Tracks 1: I Like Them Girls 2: I Ain't The One 3: Just A Baby Boy 4: Make Up Your Mind 5: There For Me (Baby) 6: Interlude -- Lord You Control Me 7: I'm Sorry 8: What Am I Gonna Do 9: Fling 10: Off The Heezy 11: Get Up On It 12: Housekeepin' 13: Interlude -- I Wrote A Song About It 14: For Always 15: Bring You Back My Way Reviewed by Sienna Powers	If the occasional reviewer seems to loathe Tyrese, they have to be forgiven for they do not understand. Reviewers, as a breed, tend to be suspicious of performers in any arena who seem to have it all goin' on. And Tyrese falls quite easily into this category. Strike one: Tyrese is gorgeous and -- let's face it -- a lot of reviewers are boys. From his much vaunted -- and exposed -- abs, to his chiseled profile -- which, mysteriously, seems to almost always be recorded with the subject facing to the photographer's left -- and pumped pecs, Tyrese was a model, MTV VJ and actor first and the six-foot-two, 22-year-old hasn't done anything to flab up since his modeling days. Strike two: He's nice. In the first flush of his success following the release and platinum status of his first album, the self-titled Tyrese in 1998, he bought his mom a house. In the second flush of success, he started the 2000 Watts Foundation, an organization that "strives to inform, enrich and empower every young person in America by promoting access to a vast array of ideas, information and engaging in the profession of community development." Strike three: Tyrese can sing. And write songs. And perform those songs convincingly. And since the package he presents is so obviously a starter, he can attract the kind of talent to him that will enhance both his reputation as well as the reputations of those that associate themselves with him. Take, for example, the performer's recently released sophomore album, 2000 Watts. The album includes several Tyrese-penned tunes and features the talents of Babyface, Snoop Dogg, Mr. Tan and Jermaine Dupri as well as several tracks that were produced by The Underdogs. Though Tyrese's voice is heavily vocordered on the first couple of tracks on 2000 Watts, throughout most of the album, his vocal instrument is pew-thumping. Quivering pleasingly for romantic numbers and seemingly hitting whatever timbre he chooses to reach for on more edgy cuts. The resulting album is a skillful blend of most everything we describe as "Urban" today. Predominantly new millennium-style R&B, with reaches into Hip Hop and, certainly, Soul. If 2000 Watts isn't enough of a Tyrese-fix for you, however, look for him starring in John Singleton's Bad Boy, to be released on June 29th, 2001; the 10th anniversary of Singleton's debut film, Boyz in the Hood. Tyrese leads a cast that includes Ving Rhames into his first foray on the big screen. With a new album and a feature film being released within a month of each other, it seems easy to predict that Tyrese is likely to be around for a while. Even if he wasn't extremely talented. And gorgeous. | June 2001 Sienna Powers is a writer, editor and visual artist.	Though Tyrese's voice is heavily vocordered on the first couple of tracks on 2000 Watts, throughout most of the album, his vocal instrument is pew-thumping. Quivering pleasingly for romantic numbers and seemingly hitting whatever timbre he chooses to reach for on more edgy cuts.