''South Central Los Skanless'' is the only album by American rap group

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. It was released October 10, 1995 through

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. The album peaked at number 37 on the US ''

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and at number 23 on the

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charts. Audio production was mainly handled by the group themselves and

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, with DJ

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providing scratches for the album. Its lead single, "What You Wanna Do?", was later featured on the fictional radio station

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in the video game ''

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Track listing

Sample credits *"Grand Theft Auto" contains elements from "Black Female Prostitute Flirts From The Sidewalk" by The Hollywood Edge Sound Effects Library (1990) *"What You Wanna Do?" contains elements from "

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" by

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(1978) and "Theme From the Black Hole" by Parliament (1979) *"O/G's Trippin'" contains elements from "You're a Customer" by

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(1988) and "

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" by

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(1979) *"Land Of The Skanless" contains elements from "Brother's Gonna Work It Out" by

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(1973) *"Sewed Up" contains elements from "Theme From the Black Hole" by Parliament (1979) and "Criminal Minded" by

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(1987) *"Supersperm" contains elements from "Super Sporm" by

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(1978) and "If You Think You're Lonely Now" by

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(1981) *"Bounce, Rock, Skate" contains elements from "Gimme The Loot" by

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(1994) *"Steal at Will" contains elements from "Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" by

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(1973) and "Robbin' Hood (Cause It Ain't All Good)" by

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Personnel

– lead vocals, producers (tracks 9, 14, 16-17) * Darrell L. Johnson – vocals (track 8) * Nanci Fletcher – vocals (tracks 2, 8) *

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– vocals (tracks 2, 8) * Louis Freese – backing vocals (track 17) * James "Tre" Rabb – keyboards (tracks 2, 14, 17) * Stu Marvels – keyboards (tracks 4, 8) * Lamar Dupré Calhoun - scratches (tracks 2, 9, 11, 14) * O'Shea Jackson – executive producer, mixing, producer (tracks 2-3, 6, 11, 15-16) * Stephen Anderson – producer (tracks 4, 8) * Derrick McDowell – producer (track 12) *

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– producer (track 12) * Keston E. Wright – mixing

Chart history

References

External links

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