''No Pressure'' is the debut solo studio album by American rapper and record producer

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. It was released on October 19, 1993, via

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was mainly handled by Sermon, who also served as executive producer. The album features

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s from Ice Cube, Joe Sinistr, Kam,

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, Redman and Shadz of Lingo. The album made it to #16 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart and #2 on the

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chart in the United States. The album spawned two singles: " Hittin' Switches" and " Stay Real".

Track listing

Personnel

– main artist, producer (tracks: 2–8, 10–16), co-producer (track 17), executive producer *Joe Sinistr – featured artist (track 2) *Jeffrey Stewart – featured artist & arranger (track 5) * Keith Omar Murray – featured artist (tracks: 5, 14) *Shadz Of Lingo – featured artist (track 12) * Craig A. Miller – featured artist (track 13) * O'Shea Jackson Sr. – featured artist (track 13) *

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– featured artist (track 14) *Debra Killings – vocals (track 7) *Derrick Culbreath – vocals (track 11) *Michael J. Morgan "Soup" – vocals (track 16) *Brent Tucker – producer (track 17) *Colin Wolfe – co-producer (track 16) *Robert David Greenberg – engineering (tracks: 2, 5, 14, 15) *George "Catfish" Pappas – engineering (tracks: 3, 4, 6, 16), mixing (tracks: 7, 10) *Darin Prindle – engineering (tracks: 7, 8, 10–12, 17) *

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