"there are two mariah careys on "butterfly". one is the pop-oriented, ballad-leaning traditionalist who works very effectively with her longtime professional partner, composer-producer walter afanasieff. the other is a self-styled hip-hop fanatic who worked with ol' dirty bastard on her last album and teams up here with several of that genre's movers and shakers, most notably sean "puffy" combs, the godfather of hip-hop soul and the hottest producer in pop music today"