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. It was released on August 3, 2004 through Sure Shot Recordings. Recording sessions took place at Audiovision Studios and Circle House Studios in

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, and Redline Studios and Sound On Sound Studios in

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from the same sessions for ''

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''.

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was handled by

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, Anthony Acid,

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, Dirty Dean, D. Prosper, Milestone, Nexus, Self, the Smith Bros., and DJ Skillspinz, with CL,

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and Mike Caruso serving as executive producers. Composed of Ghostface Killah,

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, Solomon Childs,

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, Kryme Life,

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and Du-Lilz, it features guest appearances from

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, Kline,

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and Streetlife. The album debuted at number 66 on the

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and number 38 on the

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in the United States.

Track listing

Personnel

*Dennis "Ghostface Killah" Coles – main artist, vocals (tracks: 1, 3-7, 9, 10, 13, 15), executive producer *Theo " Trife" Bailey – main artist, vocals (tracks: 2-4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13) *Walbert "Solomon Childs" Dale – main artist, vocals (tracks: 5, 8, 13, 14, 16) *Shawn "Wiggs" Simons – main artist, vocals (tracks: 5, 11, 13, 15) *Anthony " Kryme Life" Jones – main artist, vocals (tracks: 12, 13) *Darryl "

" Hill – main artist, vocals (tracks: 13, 15) *Du-Lilz – main artist, vocals (track 13) *Clifford "

" Smith – featured artist, vocals (track 4) *Patrick " Streetlife" Charles – featured artist, vocals (track 4) *Wayne "

" Hardnett – featured artist, vocals (track 8) *Kline – featured artist, vocals (track 15) *Tarik "

" Azzougarh – producer (track 1) *Self – producer (track 4) *Anthony "Acid" Caputo – producer (track 5), mixing & recording (tracks: 2, 5, 8, 10, 12-14, 16) *Dirty Dean – producer (track 6) *Smith Bros. – producer (track 7) *Nexus – producer (track 8) *Derick "Mastermind" Prosper – producer (track 9) *Kevin "

" Hansford – producer (tracks: 10, 13), co-producer (track 9) *

– producer & mixing (tracks: 11, 15) *Antonio " DJ Skillspinz" Biggers – producer (track 14) *Milestone – producer (track 16) *Stephen "Spidey" Glicken – mixing & recording (tracks: 1, 7) *Mike Caruso – executive producer, management *CL – executive producer *Mario Caruso – associate producer *Rok One – art direction *Kaysh Shinn – photography *DJ Phantom – A&R *Jonathan Kaslow – A&R *Walter Free – project coordinator

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2004 albums Ghostface Killah albums Albums produced by K-Def Albums produced by Cilvaringz Albums produced by Emile Haynie