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3-2 Christopher Juel Barriere (July 11, 1972 – November 10, 2016), professionally known as 3-2, was an American rapper and a member of southern hip hop groups Convicts, Blac Monks, Southside Playaz and Screwed Up Click. He achieved success by his ...

, a member of

Blac Monks Blac Monks was an American southern hip hop group from Houston, Texas, consisting of 3-2, D.A. and Awol. In 1994, they released their debut album ''Secrets of the Hidden Temple'' via Rap-A-Lot Records, which also featured Quiet Storm (Assata Ta ...

and Screwed Up Click, from

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. It was released on September 17, 1996, via

Rap-A-Lot Records Rap-A-Lot is a hip hop record label co-founded by James Prince and Cliff Blodget in 1986. Smoke-a-Lot Records is a subsidiary. Rap-A-Lot was first distributed by A&M Records with the release of Raheem's 1988 debut ''The Vigilante''. The label w ...

and

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. It features guest appearances from

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, Sonia Moore, Southside Playaz,

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and

UGK UGK (short for Underground Kingz) was an American hip hop duo from Port Arthur, Texas, formed in 1987, by Chad "Pimp C" Butler and Bernard "Bun B" Freeman. They released their first major-label album, ''Too Hard to Swallow'', in 1992, followe ...

. The album peaked at number 28 on the US '' Billboard''

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chart and number 13 on the Heatseekers Albums chart.

Track listing

Sampled credits * "Dressed 2 Kill" contains elements from "The Memory" by Roy Ayers Ubiquity * "My Sweet Trick" contains elements from "

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" by Mtume and " Love T.K.O." by

Teddy Pendergrass Theodore DeReese Pendergrass (March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010) was an American soul and R&B singer-songwriter. He was born in Kingstree, South Carolina. Pendergrass spent most of his life in the Philadelphia area, and initially rose to musi ...

* "Them Against Me" contains elements from "Electric Lady" by

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* "Hit the Highway" contains elements from "Just Roll" by Fabu

Personnel

* Christopher Juel Barriere – main artist, producer (track 9), engineering, mixing, mastering, production coordinator, art design *Sonia Moore – featured artist (track 2) *Southside Playaz – featured artists (track 7) * Marlon Jermaine Goodwin – featured artist (track 9) * Premro Smith – featured artist (track 9) * Todd Anthony Shaw – featured artist (track 9) *

Bernard Freeman Bernard James Freeman (born March 19, 1973), known professionally as Bun B, is an American rapper. He is best known as one half of the southern rap duo UGK (UnderGround Kingz), a group he formed in 1987 alongside Pimp C. Aside from his work with ...

– featured artist (track 10) * Chad Lamont Butler – featured artist (track 10) *John Okuribido – producer (tracks: 1, 3-5), engineering, mixing, mastering, production coordinator, art design, executive producer, management * Michael George Dean – producer (track 7), co-producer (tracks: 1, 3-5), engineering, mixing, mastering * Joseph Johnson – producer (tracks: 2, 6) *Troy Clark – producer (track 8), engineering *John "Swift" Catalon – producer (track 10) *Simon Cullins – producer (track 11) *Freddie Young – producer (track 12) * James A. Smith – executive producer *Jeff Griffin – engineering *Anthony Valcic – mastering *

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– art direction

Charts

References

External links

1996 debut albums Rap-A-Lot Records albums Albums produced by N.O. Joe Albums produced by Mike Dean (record producer) 3-2 albums {{1990s-hiphop-album-stub