14 Shots to the Dome
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14 Shots to the Dome
- Artist: LL Cool J
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- Release Date: June 01, 1993
- Total Time: 64:44
- Genre: Rap
Review
It's not the tour de force of Mama Said Knock You Out, but 14 Shots to the Dome is a solid effort finding LL Cool J maturing gracefully and strongly, without selling out. 14 Shots may not have sold as well as Mama either, but at least half of the album ranks with his best work. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi| 14 Shot Clip/Running Style (1999 Album by Footloose) | |
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| Studio album by LL Cool J | ||||||||||
| Released | June 1, 1993 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1992-1993 | |||||||||
| Genre | East coast hip hop New Jack Swing |
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| Length | 64:46 | |||||||||
| Label | Def Jam, Columbia, SME Records CK 53325 (North America) 473678 (international) |
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| Producer | QD III, Marley Marl, Bobby "Bobcat" Ervin, Andrew Zenable, Christopher Joseph Forte | |||||||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Robert Christgau | B[2] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A[3] |
| Rolling Stone | [4] |
| Rolling Stone |  [5] |
| Trouser Press | unfavorable[6] |
| Yahoo! Music | unfavorable[7] |
14 Shots to the Dome is the fifth studio album by rapper LL Cool J, released in 1993, and the first since his highly successful comeback album Mama Said Knock You Out. Unlike that release, which saw him have success on his own terms, 14 Shots sees LL adopting the sound of his West coast gangsta rap contemporaries, especially that of Ice Cube and Cypress Hill. Many fans saw this as a jarring departure, and the album met mixed critical and commercial response, only being certified Gold by the RIAA.
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Contents
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Track listing
- "How I'm Comin'"
- "Buckin' Em Down'"
- "Stand By Your Man"
- "A Little Somethin"
- "Pink Cookies in a Plastic Bag Getting Crushed by Buildings"
- "Straight from Queens" (featuring LT.)
- "Funkadelic Relic"
- "All We Got Left Is the Beat"
- "(NFA) No Frontin' Allowed" (featuring Lords of the Underground)
- "Back Seat (Of My Jeep)"
- "Soul Survivor'"
- "Ain't No Stoppin' This"
- "Diggy Down'"
- "Crossroads"
Samples
- "How I'm Comin'"
- "Hot Pants...I'm Coming, I'm Coming, I'm Coming" by Bobby Byrd
- "Sing A Simple Song" by Sly & the Family Stone
- "Stand By Your Man"
- "Fool's Paradise" by Meli'sa Morgan
- "Spinning Wheel" by Lonnie Liston Smith
- "A Little Somethin'"
- "Groove Me" by King Floyd
- "Pink Cookies In a Plastic Bag Getting Crushed By Buildings"
- "Blind Alley" by Emotions
- "That's All Right With Me" by Esther Phillips
- "Straight from Queens"
- "The Big Payback" by James Brown
- "Funkadelic Relic"
- "Wonderland By..." from Bert Kaempfert
- "All We Got Left is the Beat"
- "Hollywood Square" by Bootsy's Rubber Band
- "One Nation Under The Groove" by Funkadelic
- "No Frontin' Allowed"
- "Get Up and Dance" by Freedom
- "Back Seat (Of My Jeep)"
- "You're Getting A Little Too Smart" by The Detroit Emeralds
- "Soul Survivor"
- "Mother's Son" by Curtis Mayfield
- "Ain't No Stoppin' This"
- "Funky Drummer" by James Brown
- "Get Up & Get Down" by The Dramatics
- "Diggy Down"
- "Summer in the City" by Quincy Jones
- "Cross Roads"
- "Synthetic Substitution" by Melvin Bliss
Singles
| Year | Song | Chart positions | ||
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| Billboard Hot 100 | Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | Hot Rap Singles | ||
| 1993 | "How I'm Comin" | 57 | 28 | 8 |
| "Stand by Your Man" | – | 67 | 24 | |
| "Back Seat (Of My Jeep)" | 42 | 24 | 2 | |
| "Pink Cookies in a Plastic Bag" | 42 | 24 | 2 | |
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References
- ^ "14 Shots to the Dome Review". Allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r175382. Retrieved April 24, 2011.
- ^ "L.L. Cool J review at Robert Christgau". robertchristgau.com. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110606220431/http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=L.L.+Cool+J. Retrieved April 24, 2011.
- ^ "14 Shots to the Dome Review". Entertainment Weekly. April 9, 1993. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,306148,00.html. Retrieved April 24, 2011.
- ^ "14 Shots to the Dome Review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on February 20, 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090220012230/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/llcoolj/albums/album/323044/review/5942972/14_shots_to_the_dome.
- ^ "L.L. Cool J in Rolling Stone album guide". Rolling Stone. http://books.google.com/books?id=lRgtYCC6OUwC&pg=PA491&dq=mama+said+knock+you+out+rolling+stone. Retrieved April 24, 2011.
- ^ "14 Shots to the Dome Review". Trouser Press. http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=ll_cool_j. Retrieved April 24, 2011.
- ^ "14 Shots to the Dome Review". Yahoo! Music. http://www.webcitation.org/5sriVEG8s. Retrieved April 24, 2011.
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