''Lyfe Change'' is the third studio album by

Lyfe Jennings Chester Jermaine "Lyfe" Jennings (born June 3, 1978) is an American Contemporary R&B, R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist. He plays the guitar, Double bass, bass, and piano which he integrates into his music. T ...

, released on April 29, 2008.

"The album is called Lyfe Change because I'm changing it up a bit," explains Lyfe. "In the past I didn't work with different producers, I produced and wrote most of my albums by myself. But on this project I actually worked with different producers and a few writers."

The first single off the album is called " Cops Up". It peaked at number 68 on

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. Chart listings/ref> The song was originally written for R&B duo, Luke & Q. The second single is called "

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". It peaked at number 21 on

. The third single has been released and is called " Will I Ever". ''Lyfe Change'' debuted at number four on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200 chart, selling about 80,000 copies in its opening week. In the limited edition of the CD came with a DVD featuring a Live Performance in an Ohio Prison and the "Cops Up" music video. The DVD is edited in both versions.

Track listing

#"Change the Game" (Intro) (featuring Walter Butch) - 1:33 #"Keep On Dreaming" - 3:40 #"Warriors" - 3:10 #"

" - 3:58 #"Brand New" (featuring

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) - 3:10 #"It's Real" - 3:10 #" Cops Up" - 3:33 #"You Think You Got It Bad" (featuring

Wyclef Jean Nel Ust Wyclef Jean ( ; born October 17, 1969) is a Haitian rapper, singer, and record producer. Born in Haiti, Jean emigrated to the Northeastern United States, United States as a child. He gained fame as a founding member of the Fugees, a Ne ...

) - 4:18 #"Wild, Wild, Wild" - 3:23 #"Midnight Train" - 3:18 #"Hmmm" - 3:41 #"Old School" (featuring

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) - 4:13 #"Us" (Interlude) - 1:17 #"Will I Ever" - 4:51 #"Baby I'm a Star" - 4:19 *Lil Wayne appeared on the original version of "Brand New" but was later re-recorded and Lyfe Jennings replaced him with T.I. for the album version. The original still exists and can be heard on YouTube.

Personnel

*A&R –

Chad Elliott Chad James Elliott, also known by his stage name Dr. Ceuss, is an American songwriter, record producer, and audio engineer. He is best known for co-writing and co-producing Destiny's Child's 2000 single "Jumpin', Jumpin'", as well as Salt-N-Pepa ...

, Lyfe Jennings *Art Direction – SLANG Inc. *Coordinator &R Operations– Juli Knapp *Engineer ssistant– Elvis Aponte (tracks: 8), Mike Tschupp (tracks: 4, 14), Travis Stefl (tracks: 16, 17), Wilner Alexander (tracks: 8) *Executive-Producer – Joy Bounds, Chester "Lyfe" Jennings *Mastered By –

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(tracks: 1 to 17), Mitsuyasu Abe (tracks: 18) *Management – Joy Bounds, Know Joy Entertainment, LLC, Mathew Knowles, Music World Entertainment, Inc. *Mixed By – Mitsuyasu Kaneko (tracks: 18), Rich Keller (tracks: 1 to 17) *Mixed By ssistant– Travis Stefl (tracks: 1 to 8, 10, 12, 13, 15) *Photography By – Roger Erickson *Recorded By – Aaron Renner (tracks: 11), "Super" Dave Clauss (tracks: 9), Lyfe Jennings (tracks: 1, 12, 15), Mike Cardenas (tracks: 12), Mike Tschupp (tracks: 7), Mitsuyasu Kaneko (tracks: 18), Rich Keller (tracks: 3 to 6, 8 to 10, 13, 14, 16, 17), Riley Mackin (tracks: 11), Wyatt Oates (tracks: 2) *Recorded By ssistant– Mike Tschupp (tracks: 3, 5, 6, 10, 13), Ryan Hobbs (tracks: 2) Production #Lyfe Jennings - Tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,14,15 # The Underdogs - Tracks 7,10,11 # Steven Russell - Tracks 10,11 #

- Tracks 8,9 # Jerry Wonda Duplessis - Track 8 #Logic - Track 9 # Luke & Q - Track 7

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

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