''U.S.A.'' (stands for "''Under Satan's Authority''") is the only studio album by American horrorcore trio Flatlinerz. It was released on September 6, 1994 via Def Jam Recordings. Recording sessions took place at Chung King Studios, Next Level Studios, and Greene St. Recording in

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. Production was handled by Tempest, Rockwilder, Crush, DR Period and Kool Tee, with Kenny Lee and

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serving as executive producers. It features guest appearances from Gravemen, Kool Tee, Mayhem, Omen, Rockwilder and the Headless Horsemen. The album peaked at number 65 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and number 24 on the Top Heatseekers and found controversy for its satanic themes. Also, the three music videos the group shot for the album, " Live Evil", " Satanic Verses" and "Rivaz of Red", were barely played because of things such as frontman Redrum rhyming while hanging from a noose and Gravedigger rhyming from a crucifix. The album only sold 36,000 copies and the group, along with the Headless Horsemen and Omen, was dropped from Def Jam. Three singles were released, but only " Live Evil" made it to the charts, making it to #35 on the Hot Rap Singles. In 2009, ''

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'' named it as an iconic horrorcore album.

Track listing

Sample credits * Track 4 contains elements from " Crossover" by

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and "Party Groove (Instrumental)" by

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* Track 5 samples the song "Seven Days, Seven Nights" by Sue Ann Carwell * Track 7 contains a sample from "Step in the Arena" by Gang Starr * Track 14 embodies portions of "

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" by Redman and "I'm Gonna Take Your Love" by Brother to Brother

Personnel

*Jamel "Redrum" Simmons – main artist, vocals, sleeve notes *Darnell "Gravedigger" Cunningham – main artist, vocals, sleeve notes *Juan "Tempest" Clarke – main artist, vocals, producer, sleeve notes *Tadone "Kool Tee" Hill – featured artist, producer *Devon "Omen" Purkiss – featured artist *Gravemen – featured artist *Mayhem – featured artist *Dana " Rockwilder" Stinson – featured artist, producer *J. Leroy of the Headless Horsemen – featured artist *M. Gardner of the Headless Horsemen – featured artist *Nora T. – backing vocals *Anthony "Trace Bass" Brown – bass *Richard "Rich" Keller – bass, electric guitar, recording, mixing *Darryl "DR Period" Pittman – keyboards, percussion, programming, producer, arranger *Thomas "Crush" McQueen – producer *Divine Campbell – co-producer, arranger *Kenny Lee – executive producer *

– executive producer *

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– photography *John Blackford – illustration *The Drawing Board – design

Charts

Singles

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1994 debut albums Flatlinerz albums Def Jam Recordings albums Albums produced by Rockwilder Obscenity controversies in music Albums recorded at Chung King Studios Albums recorded at Greene St. Recording