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group

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. It was released on September 17, 1996 via

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, making it the only album released for the label. Recording sessions took place at KrossWire Studio,

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and Bosstown Recording Studios in

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, at Record One and at Mystic Studios.

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was handled by

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, who also served as executive producer, Dave Atkinson and Ross "Spyda" Sloan, with co-producer Carl So-Lowe. It features guest appearances from the

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, Mr. Black, Nicole Jackson, R. Kelly,

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and Trina Broussard. Unlike other albums, this is the first album of Whodini with extensive use of expletives in lyrics due to changes of the rap industry growing. Also, the album doesn't continue the trend of '80s-esque synthesizer sounds and discarded with a hard-core edge style pioneered by LL Cool J, Onyx and Run-DMC among others.

Chart performance

In the United States, the album debuted at number 55 on the ''Billboard''

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chart. Its

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, "Keep Running Back", peaked at 69 on the

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and No. 27 on the

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charts.

Track listing

;Sample credits *Track 3 contains a replayed portion of " Your Body's Callin'" written by R. Kelly. *Track 6 contains a replayed portion of "

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" written by

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. *Track 7 contains a replayed portion of "Feels So Real (Won't Let Go)" by

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and Freddie Washington and a portion of " I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get It Girl)" by Kim Miller, Scotty Miller, Raymond Earl and S. Henrey. *Track 9 contains a portion of "The Finer Things in Life" by Chuck Stanley. *Track 10 contains a replayed portion of "Kamurshol" written by Lorenzo Patterson, Andre Young and J. Starr.

Personnel

*Jalil Hutchins — main artist, vocals *John "Ecstacy" Fletcher — main artist, vocals *Drew "Grandmaster D" Carter — main artist *The

— additional vocals (track 2) * Robert Kelly — additional vocals (track 3) *Lloyd "

" Smith — additional vocals (track 6) *Trina Broussard — additional vocals (track 7) *Nicole Jackson — additional vocals (track 9) *Altorre "Mr. Black" Randolph — additional vocals (track 10) *LaMarquis Jefferson — bass (tracks: 3, 13), guitar (track 10) *

— producer (tracks: 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10), mixing (tracks: 2–3, 5–7, 9–11, 13), executive producer *Ross "Spyda" Sloan — producer & mixing (tracks: 5, 7, 11) *Dave Atkinson — producer & mixing (tracks: 5, 7, 11) *Carl So-Lowe — producer (track 10), re-mixing (track 13) *Phil Tan — mixing (tracks: 2, 3, 5–7, 9–11, 13), recording (tracks: 3, 10) *Mike Wilson — recording (tracks: 5, 7) *Dexter Simmons — recording (track 5) *Mike Alvord — recording (track 11) *Alex Lowe — engineering assistant (tracks: 2, 6, 13) *Brian Frye — engineering assistant (tracks: 3, 5, 7, 10) *Kevin Lively — engineering assistant (tracks: 9, 11) *Brian Lee — mastering *LaTanya Davis — art direction *

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— photography *Frank Edwards — A&R *Diane Makowski — A&R *Shanique Hill — stylist

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1996 albums Whodini albums Columbia Records albums So So Def Recordings albums Albums produced by Jermaine Dupri