Ill Na Na (Explicit Version) (1996) (Explicit Version )

Artist: Foxy Brown
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Label: Uni/def Jam
UPC: 00731453368422
Release Date: 11/19/1996
Buy.com Sku: 60115563
Item#: MN7RYX
Buy.com Sales Rank: 24281
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Intro...Chicken Coop ~ Foxy Brown
2. Letter To The Firm, (Holy Matrimony) ~ Foxy Brown
3. Foxy's Bells ~ Foxy Brown
4. Get Me Home - (featuring Blackstreet) ~ Foxy Brown
5. Promise, The - (featuring Havoc) ~ Foxy Brown
6. Interlude...The Set Up ~ Foxy Brown
7. If I... ~ Foxy Brown
8. Chase, The ~ Foxy Brown
9. Ill Na Na - (featuring Method Man) ~ Foxy Brown
10. No One's ~ Foxy Brown
11. Fox Boogie - (featuring Kid Capri) ~ Foxy Brown
12. I'll Be - (featuring Jay-Z) ~ Foxy Brown
13. Outro ~ Foxy Brown

(P) 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
(C) 1996 Mercury Records Limited

 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Personnel: Foxy Brown (rap vocals); Blackstreet, Khadijah Bass (vocals); Havoc, Method Man, Jay-Z, Kid Capri (rap vocals); Rich Nice (spoken vocals, keyboards, drum programming); George Pearson (keyboards).
Producers include: Poke, Tone, Havoc, Rich Nice.
Engineers include: Mario Rodriguez, John Shriver.
Recorded at The Hit Factory, Chung King and Battery Studios, New York, New York.
Between her appearances on Toni Braxton and LL Cool J remixes, and her anthemic duets with Jay-Z, Foxy Brown (who shouldn't be confused with the reggae singer of the same name) made a name for herself even before dropping a record of her own. Her lengthy resume and hit-making potential helped her land a deal with Def Jam Records. She now runs with the influential hip-hop crew The Firm (which includes Nas and AZ), but her debut, ILL NA NA, proves she can easily stand on her own feet.
ILL NA NA finds Brown flowing over both hard-core beats ("The Promise," courtesy of Mobb Deep's Havoc) and smooth R&B tracks ("Get Me Home," featuring the harmonies of Blackstreet). Other songs are meshes of the two genres, an approach that has enabled many rappers to cross over. Labelmate Method Man contributes the chorus to the title track.

Musical Guests
Method Man
Jay-Z
Havoc
Kid Capri
Blackstreet

 
Artist Overview
Foxy Brown, the alter ego of Inga Marchand, emerged in the mid-'90s on Brooklyn's rap scene. Already popular at talent shows and local hip-hop concerts, the attractive Foxy soon became a hot commodity as female rappers (Lil' Kim, Missy Elliott) became the music industry's "it" product. Brown developed into a street-smart, party-hopping, Cristal-sipping icon of R&B-based hip-hop, and her 1996 debut ILL NA NA only strengthened the reputation she'd already established with guest appearances, including a memorable one on LL Cool J's "I Shot Ya."

Artist Influences
2Pac | Da Brat | Digital Underground | En Vogue | LL Cool J | MC Lyte | Puff Daddy | Queen Latifah | Roxanne Shante | The Notorious B.I.G. | TLC

Artist Contemporaries
8Ball & MJG | Destiny's Child | DMX | Eve (Rap) | Jay-Z | Lil' Kim | Missy Elliott | Mya | Nas | Puff Daddy | Ruff Ryders | The Fugees | The Lox

Artist Followers
Mia X | Peaches | Princess Superstar | Sole (Female MC) | Trina


 
Compilation Appearances
Vol. 1-Reggae Dancehall
No Way Out (Explicit Version)
Release Some Tension
Vol. 1-In My Lifetime (Explicit Version)
Cheers 2 U (Explicit Version)
Jackie Brown
Vol. 1-Traffic Jams (Explicit Version)
R. (Explicit Version)
Recipe (Explicit Version)
Vol. 2-Hard Knock Life (Explicit Version)
Vol. 2-Hard Knock Life (Clean Version)
R. (Clean Version)
Reasonable Doubt (Explicit Version) (Bonus Tracks)
Reasonable Doubt (Clean Version)
Vp 20th Anniversary
80's Reggae Dancehall Classics
Back For The First Time (Explicit Version)
Back For The First Time (Clean Version)
Reunion (Explicit Version)
9 Lives (Explicit Version)
Reggae Mix
No Diggity: the Very Best Of Blackst
Cradle 2 The Grave (Explicit Version)
Bringing Down The House
Dance With My Father
Bad Boys II (Explicit Version)
Bad Boys II (Clean Version)
Ras Reggae Box Set
Hurt No More [edited]
Welcome To Haiti Creole 101
Dj Kicks
Unfinished Business (Clean)
Greatest Hits
Hits
Dancehall Classics Ii(Bonus Tracks)
Brooklyn's Don Diva(Explicit Version)
Deeper Than Rap(Explicit Version)
Deeper Than Rap
Deeper Than Rap(Limited Edition)(Explicit Version)

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 11/19/1996
Original Release Date : 1996
Catalog ID : 533 684
Label : Def Jam (USA)
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00731453368422

 
Professional Reviews
Entertainment Weekly (12/13/96, p.82)
- "...Many of the beats are familiar...but Brown's seductive, confident presence almost makes it her own." - Rating: B

Q (2/97, p.94)
- 4 Stars (out of 5)
- "...her slinky, streetwise maturity combined with Trackmasters' minimalist production of blaxploitation, '80s soul and gritty atmospherics...makes this...a powerful debut..."

Vibe (2/97, p.104)
- "...Foxy Brown's focus delicously shifts....[E]very cut on ILL NA NA bangs to the point where even Foxy Brown's mythical obsessions and predictable mafioso drug-smuggling theme go virtually unnoticed."

  
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