''AmeriKKKa's Nightmare'' is the third studio album by American rapper

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. It was released November 22, 1994, via

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. The recording sessions took place at

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, Live Oak Studios, Dangerous Music Studios,

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, and Blue Palm Studios. The album was produced by Blackjack,

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, and Spice 1, who also served as executive producer with Chaz Hayes. It features

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s from

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, and

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. The album peaked at number 22 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and number 2 on the

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charts in the United States. It was certified Gold by the

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on January 24, 1995, for selling over 500,000 copies in the US. It was supported with a single "

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", which made it to No. 74 on the US ''Billboard''

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, and a promotional single "Face of a Desperate Man". Accompanying music videos were directed for both songs, within 2Pac made a cameo appearance on "Strap on the Side" and G-Nut's cameo on "Face of a Desperate Man". The song "Nigga Sings the Blues" was originally heard in

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's 1994 film ''

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'' and was also included in '' Jason's Lyric (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)''.

Track listing

;Sample credits *Track 3 contains a portion of the composition " I Don't Believe You Want to Get up and Dance (Oops!)" written by

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, Charlie Wilson, Robert Lynn Wilson, Ronnie Wilson and Rudy Taylor. *Track 6 contains a sample of "You Can't Runaway" written by James Alexander, Larry Dodson, Allen Jones and Winston Stewart and performed by the

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. *Track 12 contains a sample of "Mr. Groove" written by Kevin McCord and performed by One Way.

Personnel

*Robert L. "

" Green, Jr. — vocals, producer (track 9), co-producer (tracks: 1–8, 10–15), executive producer *Earl "

" Stevens — vocals (track 1) *Tupac "

" Shakur — vocals (track 4) *Clifford "

" Smith, Jr. — vocals (track 7) *Gregory "G-Nut" Brown — vocals (track 13), background vocals (track 9) *Levander — background vocals (track 8) * Howard Johnson — background vocals (track 10) *Rosa Knight — background vocals (track 12) *Frank J. — background vocals (track 15) *Dennis "Den Fen" Thomas — background vocals (track 15) *Anthony "

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" Banks — background vocals (track 15), producer, recording & mixing (tracks: 2, 6, 13, 15) *"G-Man" Stan Keith — guitar (tracks: 1, 3–5) *Gentry "Black Jack" Reed — producer (tracks: 1, 3–5, 7, 8, 11, 14) *Ramon " Pee-Wee" Gooden — guitar (tracks: 6, 13, 15), keyboards (tracks: 13, 15) *Stan "The Guitar Man" Jones — guitar (tracks: 7, 8, 11, 14) *Kevin "

" Gilliam — producer (track 10) *Horace Coleman — guitar (track 12) *William "Willie Z" Zimmerman — keyboards (track 12) *Terry "

" Allen — producer & mixing (track 12) *Dave "D-Wiz" Evelingham — recording (tracks: 1, 3, 9), mixing (tracks: 1, 5, 12) *Bruce Leighton — recording (tracks: 1, 3–5) *Josh Azhziger — recording (tracks: 7, 11, 14), mixing (tracks: 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 14) *Gabriel Sutter — recording & mixing (track 10) *Eric Janko — recording (tracks: 11, 12), mixing (tracks: 3–5, 8, 11) *Brian " Big Bass" Gardner — mastering *Chaz Hayes — executive producer, management *Victor Hall — design, photography *Edwin Ruiz — design

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1994 albums Spice 1 albums Jive Records albums Albums produced by Ant Banks Albums produced by Battlecat (producer) G-funk albums