Hell Hath No Fury

Hell Hath No Fury
Studio album by Clipse
Released	November 28, 2006[1] (See release history)
Recorded	2005–2006
Genre	Hip hop
Length	48:41
Label	Re-Up, Star Trak, Jive
Producer	The Neptunes
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Entertainment Weekly (A) link The Guardian link The New York Times (favorable) link Pitchfork Media (9.1/10) link PopMatters (8/10) link Robert Christgau (A) link Rolling Stone link Stylus Magazine (A-) link XXL (XXL) link
Clipse chronology
Lord Willin' (2002) Hell Hath No Fury (2006) Till the Casket Drops (2009)

Hell Hath No Fury is the critically acclaimed second album of Virginia hip hop duo Clipse, released on November 28, 2006 in Ireland and on December 7, 2006 in the U.S. Like the group's debut album, Hell Hath No Fury is produced by The Neptunes. The guest appearances are limited to members of the Star Trak roster and Clipse's own Re-Up Gang. The album spawned two singles: "Mr. Me Too" (featuring Pharrell) and "Wamp Wamp (What It Do)" (featuring Slim Thug).

Overview

The material on Hell Hath No Fury is of a much darker tone than Clipse's debut album, due to the group's problematic relationship with Jive Records. From an interview with AllHipHop, in July 2006:

We were ready to get into the thick of things with the success of the first album … the songs we had done were really hot, but at that point in time we were in a different place, we were happier. Time passed, and we saw it was a big hold up, and the momentum, the people that waited for us, we took too long. We couldn't dare come out in the same mind frame as we did in Lord Willin' - so, now we mad, we angry, we pissed the fuck off.^[2]

Clipse began recording the album in late 2003. Work on the album was halted in 2004, when Arista Records—their label at the time—was dissolved into its sister label Jive Records, as part of a larger merger between Sony Music Entertainment and BMG. Because of contractual issues, the group was forced to stay with Jive.

While Clipse resumed work on the album, its release was delayed by Jive throughout the rest of 2004 and much of 2005. Additional delays resulted when Clipse sued Jive after the label refused to grant the group a release from its contract. These legal issues would not be resolved until May 2006.^[3] Further delays pushed the August 29 release date to October 31 and then November 28.

Reception

On Metacritic, the album received an aggregate score of 89/100 from twenty-nine reviews—indicating "universal acclaim".^[4] Critics praised the inventiveness of Clipse's lyrics and the exotic elements of The Neptunes' production.

The album was ranked first on Prefix magazine's "Best Albums of 2006"^[5] and number nine on Blender magazine's "The 50 Greatest CDs of 2006".^[6] Pitchfork Media ranked the song "Trill" at number six in "The Top 100 Tracks of 2006".^[7] The album was the sixth in the history of XXL magazine to receive a "XXL" rating. The Sunday Times, which ranked it fourth in its list of the best pop and rock records of 2007, called it a "claustrophobically edgy account of drug-dealing and paranoia, whipped up by The Neptunes into a storm of sonic inventiveness no other hip-hop release in 2007 came close to matching."^[8]

Track listing

All tracks produced by The Neptunes.

Release history

Charts

References

External links

• Hell Hath No Fury at Metacritic