''How High The Soundtrack'' is a soundtrack to

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's 2001 stoner film ''

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''. It was released on December 11, 2001 through

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and consists of hip hop music. The album contains twenty tracks featuring interpolations taken from the movie and songs performed by film stars

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, along with Cypress Hill, DMX,

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, Limp Bizkit,

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, Streetlife, and

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. The album peaked at number 38 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and at number 6 on the

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in the United States. Several songs heard both in the movie and in the closing credits, such as " Hits from the Bong" and "I Wanna Get High" by Cypress Hill, "Wu Wear" by RZA, "

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" by Ohio Players, " Jammin" by

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, "

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" by

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, "

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" by

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, "Would You Mind" by Janet Jackson, " Sexy Ida" by

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, "Good Girls" by DMX, "Sweet Thing" by

, "One Draw" by

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" by

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, ''

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" by Saliva, " The Payback" by James Brown, " B.O.B (Bombs Over Baghdad)" by Outkast, and "

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" by

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, were not included in the soundtrack album.

Track listing

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. Sample credits * "Part II" contains excerpts from "You're Making Me High", written by

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, Kenneth Edmonds, and Bryce Wilson, and performed by Toni Braxton. * "Cisco Kid" contains a sample from "

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", performed by

. * "How to Roll a Blunt" contains a sample from " Keep Rising to the Top" by

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. * "All I Need (Razor Sharp Remix)" contains an interpolation of "

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", written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson. * "Big Dogs" contains a sample from "Tell 'Em", written by

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. * "How High Remix" contains a sample from "I Am Woman", performed by

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. It also contains an interpolation of "Fly Robin Fly", written by Sylvester Levay and

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