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, released under his L-Burna alias. It was released on March 20, 2001 through

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was handled by L.T. Hutton, Darren Vegas, Michael Seifert, BB, Buddy Banks, Damon Elliott,

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, Dre' Ghost, Mauly T., Step and Thin C., with Tomica Wright and Layzie Bone serving as executive producers. It features

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and Emmortal Thugs on the bonus disc. The album peaked at number 43 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and number 17 on the

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, with 36,406 copies sold in the United States in the first week. It also made it to number 30 on the

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Track listing

Bonus disc

;Bonus disc 1 #"It's all Hood Niggaz" #"M.O.G." ;Bonus disc 2 #"Money on da Wood" (featuring

, Skant Bone and

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) #"No Matter"

Personnel

*Steven "

"/"L-Burna" Howse – main artist, executive producer *Geraldine 'Gere' Sigler – vocals (track 1) *William " WC" Calhoun – featured artist (track 3) *Brence "Dekumpozed" Skinner – featured artist (track 5) * Aaron Hall – featured artist (track 10) *Stanley " Flesh-n-Bone" Howse – featured artist (track 12) *"Big Chan" Gaines – featured artist (track 12) *David "Baby S" Ware – featured artist (track 13) * Michael Seifert – producer & recording (tracks: 1, 19) * Lenton Terrell Hutton – producer (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 7, 14) *Darren "Vegas" Hubbard – producer (tracks: 3, 12, 15, 18) *Edward "Buddy" Banks – producer (track 8) *Amefika "Thin C" Williams – producer (track 8) *Mauly Taylor – producer (track 10) *Andre "Dre Ghost" Bell – producer (track 11) *Step – producer (track 13) *BB – producer (track 16) *

– producer (track 16) * Damon Elliott – producer & recording (track 17) *Aaron Connor – mixing (tracks: 1, 3, 8, 11-13, 15, 16, 18) *Brian Springer – recording (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 7), mixing (tracks: 2, 4, 7, 14) *Richard E. Harris Jr. – recording (tracks: 3, 8, 15, 18, 19) *Gabe Chiesa – recording (tracks: 4, 7) *Erik Nordquist – recording (tracks: 11, 17) *Dino "The Cut" Johnson – recording (track 13) *Tim Nitz – recording (track 14) *"

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" Taylor – recording (track 16) * Michael Dean – mixing (track 17) *Eric Williams – recording (track 19) *Jason Walker – engineering assistant (track 10) *Joe Brown – engineering assistant (track 17) *Tomica Wright – executive producer *Giulio Costanzo – art direction, design *Image Lumumba – photography

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2001 debut albums Layzie Bone albums Ruthless Records albums Albums produced by L.T. Hutton