''Doin' It Again'' is the third studio album by

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artist

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. It features artists

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, Charlee Drew,

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and

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and was released on 31 January 2011 on

and All Around the World. The album's release was preceded by four singles which attained varied chart success on the UK Top 40 Singles chart throughout 2010.

Background

The album consists of 15 tracks, seven which feature artists (with one artist being uncredited) and "Hello, Good Morning" recorded by both

and Diddy-Dirty Money. For the song "Big", Skepta collaborated with fellow English rapper

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. Skepta told The Sun: "Chipmunk and me were out in the

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clubbing together. I'd made 'Big' for my album with the producer

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. I played it to Chipmunk on the way home that night when we driving back from the club together and he loved it so much that he came to my studio the next day to put in his verse down on it.". The album is presumably named after a song on

's first album "Greatest Hits", which is called "Doin' It Again". Currently the album has released four singles; three which have charted in the Top 40 and one just in the Top 100 of the

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Reception

Reviews for ''Doin' It Again'' have been mixed.

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said "This third album is clearly a bid for international recognition, but the transition feels uncomfortable at times".

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was more positive saying that

had "a distinctive, authentic voice and a sharp sense of humour". However,

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were far more negative saying "this is the sound of grime destroying itself" The track "All Over The House", which had been released in a previous version on a previous album, also caused controversy when Skepta's video was released, which contained pornographic scenes of a pair of pornstars.

Singles

* " Bad Boy" is the first single from the album; it was released on 15 March 2010 and entered at number 34 on Wednesday 17 March 2010. Then 4 days after on 21 March 2010 climbed 8 places from the mid-week chart to number 26. In the same week, it reached number 8 on the

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and a number 1 on the

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. * " Rescue Me" is the second single from the album it was released on 27 June 2010, it entered the UK Singles Chart at number 14 - which is Skepta's highest chart position currently. The next week it slipped down to number 19. The song features Greg Timberlake who is uncredited. * " Cross My Heart" is the third single from the album which features

. It was released on 17 October 2010 and reached number 31 on the

. * " So Alive" is the fourth single which features

, who are credited as "vs.

" It was released for digital download on 9 December 2010. It is to release as a single on 6 February 2011. * "

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" is the fifth single from the album. It was released for digital download on 27 February 2011.

Track listing

;Notes: * - Greg Bonnick of Agent X also featured on this track, but was not credited. * "All Over the House" was first released on Skepta's mixtape ''Been There Done That'' in 2010, The mixtape version featured Majestic and Shorty.

Chart performance

On 6 February 2011, "Doin' It Again" entered the

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at number 19.

Release history

References

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