''Game Tested, Streets Approved'' is the third and final
studio album
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by
Black Rob, released on July 26, 2011 through
Duck Down Music Inc.
Duck Down Music Inc is a New York City based record label, talent management, music-marketing, and consulting company founded by Drew "Dru-Ha" Friedman and Kenyatta "Buckshot" Blake in 1995. In Duck Down's 20-year existence, the Company has rel ...
The album managed to peak at number 44 on the ''Billboard''
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
Background
The album was his first since ''
The Black Rob Report
''The Black Rob Report'' is the second studio album by Black Rob. It was released on October 18, 2005, through Bad Boy Records, Bad Boy.
A music video was made that starts with the first verse of "Star in da Hood" and then cuts to the full song " ...
'', which was released six year earlier in 2005. Shortly after the release of that album, Black Rob was sentenced to seven years in prison for grand larceny and served four years of that sentence before being released in 2010. After his release from prison, Rob cut ties with his previous label
Bad Boy Records and signed a deal with independent rap label, Duck Down Music Inc. and began work on ''Game Tested, Streets Approved''.
Track listing
# "Welcome Back" – 3:04
# "Boiling Water" – 4:02
# "Bumpin'" – 2:40
# "Can't Make it in NY" – 2:57
# "Showin Up" – 3:52
# "Celebration" – 3:41
# "Wanna Get Dough" – 4:07
# "Get Involved" – 4:11
# "Sand to the Beach" – 4:04
# "Made Me a Man" – 4:14
# "Fuck Em'" – 2:47
# "This is What it Is" – 3:16
# "Up North - This is What it Is" – 3:54
# "No Fear" (featuring
Sean Price) – 3:16
Charts
Personnel
* Anthony "Buckwild" Best – Producer
* Bishop – Mixing, Producer
* Black Rob – Executive Producer, Producer
* Jemal Mosley - Executive Producer
*
Buckshot – Associate Executive Producer
* Matt Castillo – Assistant Engineer
* Coptic – Mixing
* D'Mile – Producer
*
DJ Pain – Producer
*
Dru Ha
Dru, dru, or DRU may refer to:
People Real persons (surname)
* (born 1987), French trampolinist
* Joanne Dru (1922–1996), American actress
Real persons (forename)
* Andrew Dru Castro (born 1976), American Grammy Award-winning recording engin ...
– Associate Executive Producer
* Noah Friedman – Project Coordinator
* G Koop – Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion
* Joseph "Bishop" Gallo – Engineer
* Nicholas "Young McFly" Greer – Producer
* M. Gremillion – Composer
* Rob Mandell – Composer
* Eric Matlock – A&R, Producer
* Jemal Mosley – Executive Producer
*
S. Price – Composer
* Self Service – Mixing, Producer
* David Shapiro – Composer, Producer
* Spank – Producer
* Gerald "Soul G" Stevens – Composer, Producer
* Jermaine Washington – Composer, Producer
References
2011 albums
Black Rob albums
Duck Down Music albums
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