''Undaground Legend'' is the second solo studio album by American rapper

Lil' Flip Wesley Eric Weston Jr. (born 3 March 1981), better known by his stage name Lil' Flip, is an American rapper. Raised in Houston, Texas, he began his musical career as a freestyle and battle rapper before signing with the local record label Sucka ...

. It was released on August 27, 2002, through Sucka Free/ Loud/

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. Recording sessions took place at Sucka Free Records Studio and SouthSide Studio in

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. Production was handled by Young Sears, Ke'Noe, Bigg Tyme, Tommy Granville Jr, Chop Shop Productions,

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, Joe Traxx, Kojak, Mr. Mixx, Slugger, and Lil' Flip himself, who also served as executive producer together with Hump. It features guest appearances from Lil' Ron, Big T, Bizzy Bone, David Banner, Seville, Yung Redd, Big Shasta,

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, C-Note, Juvenile and Skip. The album debuted at number 12 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and number 4 on the

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with 70,000 copies sold in the first week released in the United States. It was certified Platinum by the

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on December 3, 2002 for selling 1,000,000 copies in the US alone. Its single "The Way We Ball" reached only No. 69 on the US

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chart. A sequel to the album, ''Underground Legend Part 2'', was released in 2009 via Clover G Reords.

Track listing

;Sample credits *Track 12 contains a portion of the composition "I Need Your Body" written by

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Personnel

*Wesley "

" Weston – vocals, producer, executive producer *Christopher "Yung Redd" Gallien – vocals (tracks: 1, 7) *Ronald "Lil' Ron" Thomas – vocals (tracks: 1, 7, 8) *Terence "Big T" Prejean – vocals (tracks: 1, 8) *Hakeem "

" Seriki – vocals (track 2) *Shasta B. Moore – vocals (track 3) *Seville – vocals (tracks: 4, 12) *Lavell "

" Crump – vocals (tracks: 7, 13), producer (track 13) *Bryon " Bizzy Bone" McCane – vocals (tracks: 9, 15) *Terius " Juvenile" Gray – vocals (track 11) *Clifford "Skip" Nicholas – vocals (track 11) *Courtney " C-Note" Smith – vocals (track 13) *Tommy Lee Granville, Jr. – producer (tracks: 1, 10), recording, mixing, mastering *Anthony Raydale Sears – producer (tracks: 2, 6, 7, 14) *Maurice "Ke'Noe" Jordan – producer (tracks: 3, 8, 9) *Randy "Bigg Tyme" Jefferson – producer (tracks: 4, 11) *David " Mr. Mixx" Hobbs – producer (track 5) *Kojack – producer (track 6) *Slugger – producer (track 12) *Joseph "Joe Traxx" Howard, Jr. – producer (track 15) *Chop Shop Productions – producer (track 16) *Mike "M.J." Johnson – recording, mixing *Estell D. "Hump" Hobbs – executive producer *Julian Alexander – art direction *Daniel Hastings – photography

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2002 albums Lil' Flip albums Loud Records albums Columbia Records albums Albums produced by Mr. Mixx Albums produced by David Banner