''One Stop Carnival'' is the debut and sole

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actor Brian Green. It was released on November 5, 1996, by Yab Yum Entertainment and 550 Music (which was a subsidiary of

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Recording and production

The album’s sound imitated other West Coast hip-hop acts from the era, including Souls of Mischief, The Pharcyde, and Ahmed. It was rumoured that several of Green’s verses were ghostwritten by other artists. Green was known to be close friends with several of the album’s guests, including slimkid3 and Kamau Holloway.

Critical reception

''One Stop Carnival'' was met with negative publicity, both inside and outside the hip-hop industry. Green's music drew comparisons to

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and

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and The A.V. Club both named the album as one of the least-essential of the 1990's.

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reviewer Jason Ankeny called the album "pallid, uninspired, and insufferably arrogant, with no acknowledgement that its very existence rests solely on Green's limited success as a secondary actor on a fading prime-time drama."

Track listing

Credits adapted from

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. Notes * Slim Kid-3 provides

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on tracks 1, 3, 4 and 10-14. * Brian Green provides backing vocals on tracks 2-4 and 7-14. * Will 1X provides backing vocals on track 2. *Dawn provides backing vocals on tracks 3, 11 and 13. * Tracey Moore provides backing vocals on tracks 3 and 13. *L.A. Jay provides backing vocals on tracks 3, 5, 8 and 11. *Kamau Holloway provides backing vocals on tracks 4, 5, 7 and 9. *

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provides backing vocals on track 10. *BEIDE-2 provides backing vocals on track 11. *Robert White provides backing vocals on track 11. Sample credits *"Style Iz It" contains samples from "My Philosophy", written and recorded by KRS-One *"Didn't Have A Clue" contains samples from "Spinning Wheel", written by D.C. Thomas and recorded by

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*"Beauty And Da Beats" contains samples from "Figure of Speech", written by Daniel Dumile and Alonzo Hodge and recorded by

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*"You Send Me" (Jazz Mix) contains samples from "Lament", written and recorded by

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*"Do What You Wanna Do" contains samples from " Feel Like Makin' Love" written by

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and performed by

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Personnel

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. Executive *A&R – Kirdis Tucker, Zetra Smith *A&R – Angelo Sanders *A&R – Michael McQuarn *Art Direction, Creative Director – Bernard G. Jacobs *

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– Michael McQuarn, Tracey Edmonds *Management – The Green Company *Mastered By –

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*Photography By – F. Scott Schafer, Lonnie P. Parker Technical *L.A. Jay

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on tracks 1, 6, 12 and 14; mixers on tracks 1 and 3-14; and scratches on tracks 5 and 12. *BEIDE-2 engineers on track 1. *George Ian Boxill engineers on tracks 2, 4, 5, 7 and 9-11. *Rick Clifford mixers on tracks 2-14 and engineers on tracks 5, 7, 8, 10 and 11. * WILL 1X mixers on track 2. * Brian Green engineers on tracks 4, 5, 7 and 9-11. *

mixers on track 6. *Michael Alexander engineers on track 9. *Chris Bolden engineers on tracks 12 and 14. Instruments *George Green plays

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on track 5. *Ralph Churchwell plays

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on track 5 and keyboards on track 9.

References

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