''Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture The Wood'' is the soundtrack

Rick Famuyiwa Rick Famuyiwa (born June 18, 1973) is an American director, producer and screenwriter of productions including ''The Wood'' (1999), ''Brown Sugar'' (2002), '' Talk to Me'' (2007), '' Dope'' (2015), and ''Confirmation'' (2016). His films have bee ...

's 1999 film

The Wood ''The Wood'' is a 1999 American coming-of-age comedy drama film directed by Rick Famuyiwa and starring Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones and Taye Diggs. It was written by Famuyiwa and Todd Boyd. Plot Roland is getting married and is currently missing. ...

. It was released on July 13, 1999 through

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and consisted of hip hop and R&B music. The album peaked at number 16 on the ''Billboard'' 200, number 2 on the

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, and went Gold by the

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on August 25, 1999. It spawned four charting

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s with

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s to promote the film: "Neck uv da Woods" by

Mystikal Michael Lawrence Tyler (born September 22, 1970), better known by his stage name Mystikal, is an American rapper. Early life and education Tyler grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana's 12th Ward. His father, who ran a small neighborhood store, d ...

and Outkast (directed by

Little X Julien Christian Lutz (born October 31, 1975), known professionally as Director X, is a Canadian filmmaker, commercial director, music video director, and television director. Having directed more than 100 music videos, he is widely known as a pr ...

), "Crave" by

Marc Dorsey Marc Dorsey (born 1973) is an American R&B singer. He received a nomination for Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at 46th Annual Grammy Awards for the song " Luv U Better" with LL Cool J. Career In 1994, Dorsey released his first sin ...

(directed by

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), "Think About You" by

Blackstreet Blackstreet (often stylized as BLACKstreet) is an American R&B group founded in 1991 by record producers Chauncey "Black" Hannibal, and Teddy "Street" Riley. The group has released four albums with Interscope Records until 2003. They achieved ...

(directed by Malik Sayeed) and " I Wanna Know" by

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(directed by

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Track listing

;Sample credits *Track 7 contains a sample of "Spoonin' Rap" by

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*Track 17 contains a sample of " 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 ...

;Notes *Tracks 3–7, 11-14 are not contained in the film.

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