''John P. Kelly'' is the debut solo studio album by American rapper

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. It was released on October 16, 2001 through

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. Production was handled by Mr. Sexxx, Stephen Marley, DJ Sage,

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, Caspa, Dejah,

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, J.J. Brown, Mas, Rated R, Terence Dudley, and Mr. Cheeks himself. It features guest appearances from Stephen Marley,

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, Horace Brown and W. Walt. The album debuted at number 32 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and number five on the

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chart in the United States. Its lead single "

Lights, Camera, Action! "Lights, Camera, Action!" is the debut single by Mr. Cheeks, from his debut album '' John P. Kelly''. The song was released in August 2001 and produced by Bink, who used a sample of " Keep on Truckin'" by Eddie Kendricks. The song became Mr. Chee ...

" reached number 14 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and topped the

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chart. A followw-up single "Friday Night" made it only to number 87 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Track listing

Notes * signifies a co- producer. Sample credits * "Lights, Camera, Action!" contains elements from " Keep On Truckin'", written by

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, Anita Poree, and

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; and performed by

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. * "Friday Night" contains elements from "

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", written by

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and

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, and performed by

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. * "I Remember" contains elements from "Warm Love", written and performed by

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Personnel

*Terrance "

" Kelly – vocals, producer (track 1), executive producer * Stephen Marley – vocals & producer (tracks: 3, 9), keyboards (track 9) * Horace Brown – vocals (track 4) *Cameron "

" Gipp – vocals (track 6) *Tim "Buttnaked Tim Dawg" Patterson – backing vocals (track 7) *

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– backing vocals (track 9) *W. Walt – vocals (track 12) *Christopher Meredith – bass (track 3) *

Julian Marley Julian Ricardo Marley (born 4 June 1975) is a British-Jamaican reggae musician, songwriter, producer and humanitarian. He is the son of reggae music icon Bob Marley, and Lucy Pounder. He follows in his father's footsteps and is a devout Rasta ...

– keyboards (tracks: 3, 9), bass (track 9) *D.J. Sage – programming & co-producer (track 3), producer (track 13) *Steven "

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" Jordan – programming (track 9) *Roosevelt "

" Harrell III – producer & recording (track 2) *Garfield "Mr. Sexxx" Duncan – producer (tracks: 4, 6, 7, 14), recording & mixing (track 4), executive producer *Osten "

" Harvey Jr. – producer (track 5) *Ted "Caspa" Hogan – producer (track 8) *Dejah – producer (track 8) *Jason "J.J." Brown – producer (track 10) *Ralphy "Rated R" Salas – producer (track 11) *Thomas "Mas" Weisman – producer (track 11) *Terence Quentin Dudley – producer (track 12) *Leslie Brathwaite – recording & mixing (tracks: 1, 5-8, 10-14) *Julio Ferrer – recording (tracks: 3, 9) *Alrick Thompson – recording (tracks: 3, 9) *Jim "Bonzai" Caruso – mixing (tracks: 3, 9) *Dan Maier – engineering (track 10) *Mark Goodchild – recording and mixing assistant (tracks: 1, 5-8, 10-14) *Jason Tumminello – mixing assistant (track 9) *

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– mastering *Charles Suitt – executive producer, management *Sandy Brummels – art direction *JSwift – design *Nitin Vadukul – photography *Charmaine Edwards – A&R *Eloise Bryan – A&R *Nina Freeman – A&R *Todd Eleerby – management

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control Mr. Cheeks albums 2001 debut albums Universal Records albums Albums produced by Easy Mo Bee Albums produced by Bink (record producer)