Guilty Conscience (album)

Guilty Conscience is the third studio album by American recording artist J. Holiday, released by his own label HMG (Holiday Music Group) and Music Line Group on January 28, 2014. It serves as Holiday's first album in nearly five years, since the release of Round 2 (2009) and his first independent release.

Guilty Conscience
Studio album by
J. Holiday
ReleasedJanuary 28, 2014
Recorded2013
Genre
Length45:11
Label
  • Music Line
  • HMG
  • Central South Distribution
Producer Credits and personnel
J. Holiday chronology
Round 2
(2009)		 Guilty Conscience
(2014)		 Time
(2019)
Singles from Guilty Conscience
  1. "After We Fuck"
    Released: November 12, 2013
  2. "Incredible"
    Released: February 17, 2014
  3. "Where Are You Now"
    Released: August 2014
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Urban Informer[1]
You Know I Got Soul[2]

The album features production from Lil Ronnie, Ronnie D, Jerry Wonda, Blaq Smurph and Miyk Snoddy, among others.[3] Guilty Conscience receive mostly positive reviews, giving the album 4.5 out of 5 stars.

The album was a commercial disappointment, becoming the lowest selling release of Holiday's career.

Background

On January 8, 2014, during an interview with Urban Bridgez, J. Holiday spoke about the album title, saying:

"I named it Guilty Conscience because it’s basically like a movie. Let’s say, because I do what I do; I’m an R&B artist. So let’s say that if you could put a soundtrack to my life, in the last 5 years, this would be the soundtrack. So it’s kind of like, I’m telling my business. You know what I mean and I didn’t really want to. But it’s going to help when it comes to relationships like love and all of that because it’s like the sh*t really happens. The same way Steve Harvey did the book Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man. So it’s like the album, like I messed up with my main chick, trying to get with the side-chick. Like she was out there, but I didn’t know. So now I’m learning and I have to go back and fix my relationship because the side-chick got me all tore up. So for instance, like on the title track Guilty Conscience, that’s me talking to my main girl. And now I’m like, where you going, what are you doing, why are you doing this, why are you putting on make-up? You know what I mean and that’s the guilty conscience and what it’s about."[4]

Singles

The song "Sign My Name" was released as a buzz single, on May 29, 2012, it peaked at number 22 on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart.[5] The first single "After We Fuck" was released on September 23, 2013.[6] A music video was released on November 22, 2013.[7] The second single "Incredible", was sent to urban radio on February 17, 2014.

Promotion

He released a sampler of the album, that contains 4 snippets and 3 of the tracks.[8]

Commercial Performance

Due to the album's lack of promotion, it would only managed to debut at number 42 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

Track listing
Guilty Conscience – CD – digital download – streaming
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Incredible"
  • Brandon Alexander Hodge
  • Ronnie Jackson
  • Marquis A. Foxx
  • Aaron C. Sledge
  • Lil Ronnie
  • B.A.M.
4:02
2."Thinkin About You"
  • Richard Preston Butler
  • Jermine Jackson
  • Andrew Harr
  • Andre Davidson
  • Karlyn Ramsey
  • Shawn Davidson
Phil Cornish2:38
3."Cloud 9"
  • Alexandria Dollar
  • Jordan Dollar
  • Ronnie Jackson
Phil Cornish3:51
4."After We Fuck"
  • Rafael Ishman
  • Jackson
  • Ronak Dalal
  • Lil Ronnie
  • Ronnie D
3:31
5."Guilty Conscience" 
  • Patrick "Guitarboy" Hayes
  • Phil Cornish
4:08
6."Ms. Get Around"  3:33
7."Wrong Turn"  3:23
8."Home Wrecker" Lil Ronnie4:08
9."Dumb" Patrick "Guitarboy" Hayes3:24
10."Come Back Home"
  • Shaunte Talbert
  • Christopher Newland
  • Jackson
 3:23
11."Where Are You Now"
  • Samuel James Harris III
  • Terry Lewis
 4:22
12."Heaven"John W. JacksonArden Altino4:49
Total length:42:11
Note

Credits and personnel

Credits for Guilty Conscience adopted from Allmusic.[10]

Charts
Chart (2014) Peak
position
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[11] 42

Release history
Region Date Format(s) Label
United States January 28, 2014[12]

[13]
  • Music Line
  • HMG

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-04-18. Retrieved 2014-04-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. http://youknowigotsoul.com/album-review-j-holiday-guilty-conscience-4-stars-out-of-5
  3. "J. Holiday Books December 10th For Comeback Album 'Guilty Conscience'". Singersroom.com.
  4. http://urbanbridgez.com/ubgblog/2014/01/08/ub-interview-j-holiday-talks-guilty-conscience-going-indie-industry-politics-more/
  5. "Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – Issue Date: 2012-09-15". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
  6. http://sosincereent.blogspot.com/2013/09/j-holidays-new-single-after-we-fk.html?m=1
  7. Video on YouTube
  8. "J. Holiday Guilty Conscience (Sampler)". DJBooth.net.
  9. "Amazon.com: Guilty Conscience: J. Holiday: Audio CD". Amazon.com.
  10. http://www.allmusic.com/album/guilty-conscience-mw0002613295
  11. "J. Holiday Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard.
  12. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10152025172482521&id=18711872520&__user=100002947226978
  13. "Itunes - Music - Guilty Conscience by J. Holiday". Itunes.apple.com.
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