''However U Want It'' is the debut studio album by American hip hop recording artist

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former Lead Vocalist/Rapper of the Urban Rock group

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. The album features the single "Tonight" feat. Suhana Machete in which stayed on the

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Hot Single Sales chart for 13 weeks. The album also features 13 more songs with contributions from

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nominated and award-winning writers and producers along with a bonus track.

Background

In 2012, Emcee N.I.C.E. revealed plans for his debut studio album during an interview with the Las Vegas Informer Magazine he was quoted as saying "The reason I wanted to do this album, was to bring fun back to music"... Then, original title for the album was "Way Back Now" that paid homage to the old school way of Hip-Hop music with the

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delivery. The anticipation for the album picked up when (Actress/Fox News Correspondent)

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was featured on a dance track entitled Life of The Party. The song received high praise from

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Global Grind, saying that “Even though Emcee N.I.C.E. who is really Nice on the mic isn’t a household name as of yet, he soon will be.”. Media giant TMZ's TooFab exclusively debuted the music video and the album was slated to make a big impact. However Stacey Dash political support for

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and statements against President

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caused a stir among the

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community and the backlash from it caused the public to turn on anything she was a part of, even though Emcee N.I.C.E. wasn't involved and due to the backlash the label and distributors postponed the release date. In October 2014 Emcee N.I.C.E. without fan fair and a lot of hype, would go on to release the second single from the album entitled "Tonight" feat. Suhana Machete. The single would gain momentum spending 13 weeks from November 1, 2014 - February 2015 peaking at #8 on the US Billboard

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Chart in 2014 (Billboard Albums). During the production of the album N.I.C.E. would change the title of the album to reflect the direction of music in which was geared towards women and entitled it "However U Want It"

Track listing

;Sample credits *"I Got U Baby" contains a sample of the song "Backstrokin" performed by

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Singles

Tonight feat. Suhana Machete peaked at #8 on the US Billboard

Chart in 2014 (Billboard Albums) The single

Chart History

Personnel

*Emcee N.I.C.E. — executive producer, primary artist *Suhana Machete — primary artist *Natasha Marie — primary artist *Manny B — primary artist *Jus Blake — primary artist *Dennis Bettis — primary artist *Emanuel Officer — primary artist *Jakkai Butler — primary artist *D.B.I. — primary artist *Dennis Lorenzo — primary artist *Kelly Keys — producer *DJ Fat Jack— producer *Ralph B. Stacy aka "Phantom — producer, bass, guitar *Shawn "J" Jaros— producer *Frank DeRozan— executive producer *Chantal Grayson — executive producer *BJ Luster — executive producer *De'Jon J.H. Clark — co-executive producer *Jzhamael Kebulon Ashantee— executive *Maisha "Mrald" Johnson — background vocals *Laskey B — background vocals *Jon Barnes — trumpet *Will Togba— writer (track #4) *Earl "Slick TwoThree" Barlow— writer (track #4) *Brandino — bass *Dan "Deezy" Naim— head engineer, mixer *Thomas "Tomcat" Bennett Jr.— engineer *Eric Labson - mastering

Release history

References

External links

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