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Personnel includes: Slick Rick, Snoop Doggy Dogg, OutKast, Canibus, Nas, Kid Capri, Raekwon, Q-Tip, DJ Rev. Run, Redman, Kid Capri, Peter Gunz, S&S, Bugsy, Ed Lover, Doug E. Fresh (rap vocals); Vada Nobles, Phalon Alexander (various instruments); Joe Kelley, Thomas Hammond, Corey Rooney (keyboards); Doug E. Fresh (beat box); DJ Ty Boogie (scratches).
Producers include: DJ Clarke Kent, Large Professor, S&S, Kid Kapri, Tyrone Fyffe.
Engineers include: Mike Anzelowitz, Kenny Ortiz, Joshua Butler.

Released: May 25, 1999
Billboard 200 chart position: #8
R&B/Hip-Hop chart position: #1
Singles: “We Turn It On” & “Street Talkin’

Samples Used

“King Peice In The Chess Game” samples ” Sad Feeling” by Bobby Bland
“Trapped In Me” samples “Tin Tin Deo” by Buddy Montgomery.
“I Run This” samples “Jam Master Jay” by “Run DMC”, “Body & Soul” by “Sonny Rolands” , “Childrens Story”, “The Show” ,& “La Di Da Di ” by “The Ruler & Dougie Fresh”
“Frozen” contains interpolation from “Make It Last All Night” and samples “Seven Months” by “Portishead”
“Why Why Why” samples “Funky President (People Is Bad)” by The God Father of Soul The Great James Brown
“Memories” samples “The Best Girls Don’t Always Win” by “Betty Wright”
“Unify” samples “One Mint Julep” written by “R. Toombs”
“I Own America Part 2″ samples “I Can’t Go On Living Without You” by Tavares
“We Turn It On” samples “The Show” by “The Ruler & Dougie Fresh”