Zero Tolerance

• Artist: Hit Squad
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• Release Date: December 07, 2004
• Type: Contains explicit content
• Genre: Rap

Review

The "crew" is one of the most essential elements in hip-hop culture, but it is rare for a crew album to match up to the accomplishments of a single artist or unit. However, when your crew is lead by Parrish "PMD" Smith and features such top guns as Redman, Das EFX, Mobb Deep, and Fat Joe, you have a better than average chance of coming together to make a record well worth listening to. Zero Tolerance even features a mini-reunion of EPMD, with PMD and Erick Sermon sharing mike time with Redman and Das EFX over a swinging beat by Havoc of Mobb Deep on "Serious." But this isn't just an orgy of all-star hip-hoppers. Lesser-known talents like K-Solo, Mick Knoxx, and especially Lil Raz fill out major portions of this album. But most impressive is 275, whose loose style on "Callin' Me" over Fury's '70s wah-wah orchestra production is the record's highest highlight. The production is consistent, mostly sample-based but nothing too obvious, and executed by almost as many different technicians as there are tracks. PMD's own console control on "Last Dayz" finds him sharing a standout beat laced with laser-beam synths with 275, but even then it's impossible to call him out as the star of this evenhanded set. A crew record that doesn't rely on the leader's coattails to carry it through? Only a true master of the genre could pull that off. ~ Joshua Glazer, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Intro		Hit Squad	(1:11)
Skit	Reggie Noble, Erick Sermon	Redman	(:07)
U Can't		Hit Squad	(3:06)
Serious		Das EFX, EPMD, Redman, Hit Squad	(3:21)
International		Das EFX	(3:51)
Victory		K-Solo	(4:05)
Line of Fire		Hit Squad, Mick Knoxx	(3:56)
Callin' Me		275	(3:42)
Interlude		Hit Squad, DJ White Rock	(:17)
Where We From		Hit Squad, Uniq, Lil Raz	(3:19)
Interlude		Hit Squad, Lil Raz	(:10)
Get Money		Heron, Hit Squad, Heron, Lil Raz	(3:51)
Comin' with the Ruff S**t		Nocturnal, Hit Squad, Skoob	(3:01)
We Ain't Gonna Stop Until		Heron	(4:03)
Last Dayz		Hit Squad	(2:47)
My Crew		Rob Jackson	(4:42)
It's the Pee Back 2 Work [Remix][*]		Mobb Deep, Fat Joe, Hit Squad	(3:22)
Next Chapter [*]		Hit Squad, Krazy Drazy, Don Fuquan	(3:14)
Outro		Hit Squad	(:36)

Credits

Track Addicts (Mixing), Havoc (Audio Production), 275 (Rap), Agallah (Engineer), Nocturnal (Rap), Rob Jackson (Rap), Sam Sneed (Producer), Dre Meezy (Engineer), Ken Wallace (Engineer), Heron (Rap), Parrish Smith (Rap), Dre Meezy (Mixing), Don Fu-Quan (Rap), Parrish Smith (Audio Production), Fat Joe (Rap), Track Addicts (Engineer), Mike Powell (Engineer), Mick Knoxx (Rap), Das EFX (Rap), Ken Wallace (Mixing), Lil Raz (Rap), Fury (Producer), 275 (Performer), K-Solo (Rap), Erick Sermon (Producer), Mike Powell (Mixing), Redman (Rap), DJ White Rock (Rap), Mobb Deep (Rap), Dre Meezy (Producer), DJ Scratch (Producer), Track Addicts (Producer)