''East Point's Greatest Hit'' is the only solo studio album by American rapper Cool Breeze. It was released on March 23, 1999 via Organized Noize/

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. Recording sessions took place at the Dungeon Recording Studio, the Chamber Recording Studios and Purple Dragon Recording Studios in SWATS, Sound Chamber Recorders in

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and the Boom Boom Room in Augusta.

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was handled by

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, 2 Cold Capone and Skinny Miracles. It features

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s from

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, 8Ball, Backbone,

Big Rube Ruben Bailey (born September 27, 1969, Atlanta, Georgia), professionally known by his stage name Big Rube, is an American spoken word artist, rapper and hip hop producer. He is a first-generation member of the Dungeon Family and of Society of ...

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, Outkast,

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and the Calhouns. The album peaked at number 38 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and number 11 on the

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in the United States. Its

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, a

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" Watch for the Hook", made it to No. 73 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100.

Track listing

;Sample credits *Track 2 contains replayed elements from "

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" written by

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. *Track 16 contains elements of " For Those Who Like to Groove" written by

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Personnel

*Frederick " Cool Breeze/Freddie Calhoun" Bell – vocals *

Rico Wade Organized Noize is an American production team from Atlanta, Georgia composed of Rico Wade, Ray Murray and Sleepy Brown. History Among the hit records they have worked on include TLC's "Waterfalls", En Vogue's "Don't Let Go (Love)", and Luda ...

– additional vocals (track 1), programming (tracks: 1, 2, 8, 9), drum programming (tracks: 3, 5, 6, 10-12, 14, 15, 17), keyboards programming (tracks: 11, 12), producer (tracks: 1-3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17), mixing (tracks: 1-3, 5, 6, 8-17), recording (track 11), executive producer *Whild Peach – additional vocals (track 1), vocals (track 2) *Andre "

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" Benjamin – vocals (track 2) *Antwan "

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" Patton – vocals (track 2) * Cameron Gipp – vocals (track 2) *Willie "

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" Knighton – vocals (track 2) *Thomas "

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" Callaway – vocals (track 2) *Robert "

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" Barnett – vocals (track 2) *Erin "

" Johnson – vocals (tracks: 2, 9) *Ruben "

" Bailey – additional vocals (track 2), vocals (track 11) *Ricardo "

" Brown – vocals (track 6) *Patrick "

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" Brown – backing vocals (track 8), additional vocals (track 15), programming (tracks: 1, 2, 8, 9), drum programming (tracks: 3, 5, 6, 10-12, 14, 15, 17), keyboards programming (tracks: 11, 12), producer (tracks: 1-3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17), mixing (tracks: 1-3, 5, 6, 8-17), recording (track 11), executive producer *

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– backing vocals (tracks: 8, 13) *Jamahr "Backbone" Williams – vocals (track 9) *Collier Starks – backing vocals (track 11) *Mark Starks – backing vocals (track 11) * Nivea B. Hamilton – additional vocals (tracks: 12, 14) *Premro " 8Ball" Smith – vocals (track 14) *Dee Dee "Peaches" Hibbler-Murray – additional vocals (track 14), A&R *Marvin "Chanz" Parkman – backing vocals & keyboards (track 16), Rhodes electric piano (tracks: 13, 15) *Cedric "Swift C/Lucky Calhoun" Barnett – vocals (track 17) *Vasco "Big L/Pauly Calhoun" Whiteside – vocals (track 17), scratches (tracks: 2, 17) *Brian "Slimm Calhoun" Loving – vocals (track 17) *David "Whild" Brown – guitar (tracks: 1, 5, 6, 12) *

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– trombone (track 1) *South Central Chamber Orchestra – horns (track 1), strings (track 14) *Charles Veal Jr. – concertmaster (tracks: 1, 14), horns conductor and arranger (track 1), strings conductor and arranger (track 14) *Preston Crump – bass (tracks: 3, 6, 8, 10, 13-15) *Skinny Miracles – organ (track 8), Wurlitzer electric piano (track 11), bass (track 12), producer & programming (track 16) *Richard Muscadin – trombone (track 9) *Antoine Hollins – tuba (track 9) *Victor Alexander – drums (track 14) *Dean Paul Gant – keyboards (track 14) *Brian Timms – talkbox (track 16) *Ray Murray – programming (tracks: 1, 2, 8, 9), drum programming (tracks: 3, 5, 6, 10-12, 14, 15, 17), keyboards programming (tracks: 11, 12), producer (tracks: 1-3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17), mixing (tracks: 1-3, 5, 6, 8-17), recording (track 11), executive producer *David "

" Sheats – programming & producer (track 13), co-producer & mixing (track 16) *Masaba "2 Cold Capone" Tyson – producer (track 10) *John "Bernasky" Wall – recording (tracks: 1-3, 5, 6, 8-17), mixing (track 11) *Gerry "

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" Brown – recording (tracks: 1, 14) *Kevin Parker – recording (tracks: 5, 8, 14, 16) *Blake Eiseman – recording (track 12) *Shawn Grove – recording (track 13) *Herbert Kelley – recording assistant (tracks: 5, 6, 14, 15, 17) *Orlando McGhee – recording assistant (track 9) *Kenneth Stallworth – recording assistant (track 12) *Vincent Marshel – recording assistant (track 13) *

Neal H Pogue Neal H Pogue is an American producer, audio engineer and mixer originally from Roselle, New Jersey, and based in Los Angeles. Pogue is a multi-time Grammy Award winner, having first won for his engineering and mixing work on Outkast's ''Speak ...

– mixing (tracks: 1, 12-15, 17) *Alvin Speights – mixing (tracks: 2, 9) *Joshua A. "Josh" Butler – mixing (tracks: 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 16) *Cap 1 – mixing (track 10) *J.R. Rodriquez – mixing assistant (track 2) *Jason Stokes – mixing assistant (track 13) *Ricciano "Ricco" Lumpkins – mixing assistant (track 13) * Chris Bellman – mastering *Aahmek Richards – art direction, design *Piotr Sikora – photography *Shem Lwanga – additional photography *Ramon Campbell – A&R *Celeste Moses – A&R *Terri Haskins – creative director

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1999 debut albums A&M Records albums Dungeon Family albums Interscope Records albums Albums produced by Organized Noize