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Album Review: Blood Money

  • Artist: Mobb Deep
  • Rating: StarStar
  • Release Date: May 02, 2006
  • Type: Contains explicit content
  • Genre: Rap

Review

Blood Money provides G-Unit with the opportunity to attach themselves to the legacy of Mobb Deep, and it gives Mobb Deep the chance to connect with a younger set of rap fans. Both groups take full advantage. The G-Unit stamp is all over the album, from the packaging to the mostly self-contained content -- 50 Cent drops in on five tracks, while Young Buck, Tony Yayo, and Lloyd Banks also guest. The album alternately sounds like a proper Mobb Deep album and a Mobb Deep album hosted (and occasionally overrun) by G-Unit, and neither camp is close to operating at full strength. The best example of the alliance's negative effect on the headliners is "Give It to Me," a rote "Candy Shop" knockoff in which Prodigy only fuels the argument that he has slipped as a lyricist: "I'm tired of finger-f*cking this phone/Phone calls bore me, you got me horny." Havoc (six tracks), Alchemist ("The Infamous"), and Sha Money XL and Ky Miller ("Put Em in Their Place") do come up with some productions worthy of Mobb Deep's old standard. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Smoke It (Lyrics) D. Prosper Mobb Deep (2:57)
Put Em in Their Place K. Miller Mobb Deep (3:56)
Stole Something (Lyrics) Mobb Deep, Lloyd Banks (3:57)
Creep (Lyrics) Mobb Deep, 50 Cent (4:01)
Speakin So Freely Mobb Deep (3:10)
Backstage Pass (Lyrics) Mobb Deep (3:05)
Give It to Me Mobb Deep, Young Buck (3:08)
Click Click (Lyrics) Mobb Deep, Tony Yayo (4:25)
Pearly Gates (Lyrics) Mobb Deep, 50 Cent (4:16)
Capital P, Capital H Mobb Deep (4:15)
Daydreamin' (Lyrics) C. Glenn Burnett Mobb Deep (3:07)
The Infamous Mobb Deep, 50 Cent (3:53)
In Love with the Moula Mobb Deep (3:13)
It's Alright (Lyrics) W.G. Harris Mobb Deep, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent (4:25)
Have a Party [*] N. Hale Mobb Deep, Nate Dogg, 50 Cent (4:00)
Outta Control [Remix][*] M. Batson, A. Young Mobb Deep (4:07)

Credits

Product (Producer), Dr. Dre (Producer), Dr. Dre (Mixing), Brian Gardner (Mastering), Manny Smith (A&R), Mark Batson (Keyboards), Carlos Bess (Engineer), Carlos Bess (Editing), Havoc (Producer), Mike Elizondo (Keyboards), Mike Elizondo (Producer), Steve Sola (Engineer), Steve Sola (Mixing), The Alchemist (Producer), Larry Chatman (Production Coordination), Sean Cruse (Guitar), Patrick Viala (Engineer), Patrick Viala (Mixing), 50 Cent (Executive Producer), Les Scurry (Production Coordination), Raymond Angry (Organ (Hammond)), Raymond Angry (Fender Rhodes), Chris Gilbert (Engineer), Sha Money XL (Producer), Marcus Heisser (A&R), Mauricio "Veto" Irragorri (Engineer), Mike Peters (Mixing Assistant), Sarah A. Friedman (Photography), Kendu Isaacs (Engineer), Rouble Kapoor (Assistant Engineer), Kyla Miller (Producer), Kyla Miller (Engineer), Michael Eleopoulos (Engineer), Chad Beat (Producer), J.R. Rotem (Producer), Exile (Producer), Profile (Producer), D. Prosper (Percussion), D. Prosper (Vocals (Background)), D. Prosper (Production Coordination), Marcus Best (Marketing), Robert "Roomio" Reyes (Assistant Engineer), Keyon Harrold (Percussion), Keyon Harrold (Trumpet), Keyon Harrold (French Horn), Daniel Jones (Clavinet), Daniel Jones (Wurlitzer), K Lassik Beats (Producer), "Fredwreck" Farid Nassar (Guitar), "Fredwreck" Farid Nassar (Keyboards), "Fredwreck" Farid Nassar (Producer), "Fredwreck" Farid Nassar (Engineer), "Fredwreck" Farid Nassar (Mixing), Matt "Spy" Szpyrka (Engineer)
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Blood Money
Studio album by Mobb Deep
Released May 2, 2006
Recorded 2005–2006
Genre East Coast hip hop, hardcore rap
Length 59:56
Label Interscope, G-Unit
985 206
Producer 50 Cent (exec.)
Dr. Dre Havoc
The Alchemist
Sha Money XL Ky Miller K-Lassik Beats Fredwreck Nassar Product & Whitton Chad beatz
Professional reviews
Mobb Deep chronology
Amerikaz Nightmare
(2004)
Blood Money
(2006)
The Safe Is Cracked
(2009)

Blood Money is the seventh studio album by hip-hop duo Mobb Deep, released on May 2, 2006. It is the group's first and only album and on G-Unit/Interscope Records. It features guest appearances by G-Unit artists 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, Young Buck and Nyce, as well as Mary J. Blige and Nate Dogg.

The album reached number three on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums. The track "Have a Party" was also on the Get Rich or Die Tryin' soundtrack, released in 2005, while the song "Outta Control [Remix]" is a bonus track which was on the special edition of The Massacre. The album debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200, with 110,000 copies sold. As of June 13, 2007, the album has sold 875,000 copies in the U.S. as well as overseas. The album to date has sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide.[citation needed] The album also features the hit song Outta Control, which peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track listing

# Title Producer(s) Featured guest(s) Time
1 "Smoke It" Havoc 2:57
2 "Put Em in Their Place" Havoc, Ky Miller, Sha Money XL 4:00
3 "Stole Something" Havoc Lloyd Banks 3:57
4 "Creep" Havoc 50 Cent 4:01
5 "Speakin' So Freely" Havoc 3:11
6 "Backstage Pass" K-Lassik Beats 50 Cent 3:05
7 "Give It to Me" Profile Young Buck 3:08
8 "Click Click" Havoc Tony Yayo 4:25
9 "Pearly Gates" Exile 50 Cent 4:16
10 "Capital P, Capital H" Product & Whitton Nyce 4:15
11 "Daydreamin'" Chad beatz 3:15
12 "The Infamous" The Alchemist 50 Cent 3:53
13 "In Love With the Moula" J. R. Rotem 3:13
14 "It's Alright" Havoc 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige 4:25
15 "Have a Party" Fredwreck Nassar 50 Cent, Nate Dogg 3:56
16 "Outta Control [Remix]" Dr. Dre, Mike Elizondo 50 Cent 4:07
17 "So Ill" (UK bonus track) Havoc, Ky Miller 3:02

Samples

"Click Click" contains samples from the Knight Rider theme

"Pearly Gates" contains samples from "The Judgement Day" by Tavares

"It's Alright" contains samples from "The Loneliest Man In Town" by Side Effect

"Have a Party" contains samples from "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

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