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by American

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, released January 17, 1995, on

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. The band's major label-debut, it was released two years after their independent debut album, '' Organix'' (1993). ''Do You Want More?!!!??!'' has been considered by critics as a classic of

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. In 1998, the album was selected as one of ''

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''s 100 Best Rap Albums. On November 2, 2015, twenty years after its release, the album was certified Gold by the

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for shipments of 500,000 units in the United States. The master tapes for the album, including some unreleased tracks, were destroyed in the

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Track listing

*The track listing on some album releases denotes the first track, "Intro/There's Something Goin' On," as track #18, continuing the track count from the band's 1993 album '' Organix'', which contained 17 tracks. The track listing on this album continues from #18 upward to the album's final track, "The Unlocking" (track #33).

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