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. It released on March 24, 1998, via

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. Recording sessions took place at Platinum Island Studios,

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and

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, and at Jimmy Weaver Studio.

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was handled by Darrell "Delite" Allamby, Reef, Steve Pitts,

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, Buff William, D'Anthony Johnson, Femi Ojetunde, Quimmy Quim, and Courtney Burgess, who also served as executive producer together with Awanda Booth. It features guest appearances from Dirty Bert, Antoinette Roberson,

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, Merciless X, Smooth and

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. The album peaked at number 50 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and number 10 on the

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. Two singles were released: "Getto Star" and "Everyday", with the latter reached number 79 on the

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Track listing

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and performed by

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. *Track 6 contains elements from " Feel Like Making Love" written by

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Personnel

* Bruce "

" Washington – main artist, sleeve notes * James "

" Campbell – featured artist (track 2) * Antoinette Roberson – featured artist (track 3) * Dirty Bert – featured artist (tracks: 4, 8) * Smooth – featured artist (track 4) * Jamal "

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" Rocker – featured artist (track 6) * Merciless X – featured artist (track 6) * Rahem "

" Brown – featured artist (track 9) * Courtney Burgess – producer (track 1), executive producer, sleeve notes * Buff William – producer (track 1) * D'Anthony Johnson – producer (track 2) * Darrell "Delite" Allamby – producer (tracks: 3, 8) * Muntaquim "Quimmy Quim" Farid – producer (track 4) * Rob "Reef" Tewlow – producer (tracks: 5, 9) * Paul "

" Hendricks – producer (track 6) * Steve Pitts – producer (tracks: 7, 10) * Femi Ojetunde – producer (track 11) * Carl Nappa – mixing (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 6, 8) * Troy Hightower – mixing (tracks: 2, 7, 10, 11) * Ken "Duro" Ifill – mixing (tracks: 5, 9) * Michael Sarsfield – mastering * David Bett – creative director * Awanda Booth – executive producer * Daniel Hastings – photography

Charts

References

External links

* 1998 debut albums Hussein Fatal albums Relativity Records albums {{1990s-hiphop-album-stub