Notes & Personnel Info |  | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracls and multimedia computer files. | | The Clipse: Malice, Pusha T. | | Additional personnel includes: Ab-Liva, Roscoe P. Goldchain, Fabolous, Faith Evans, Jadakiss, Styles, Jermaine Dupri. | | Recorded at MasterSound Studios, Windmark Studios, Virginia Beach, Virginia. | | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Personnel includes: The Clipse, FamLay, Fabolous, Jermaine Dupri, Jadakiss, Styles P, N.O.R.E., Baby, Lil' Wayne, Sean Paul, Bless, Kardinal Offishall, Faith Evans, Ag-Liva, Roscoe P. Coldchain. | | This includes a bonus DVD disc. | | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Though Virginia's most well known hip-hop exports may have been Timbaland and Missy Elliot, the release of Clipse's debut album introduces a pair of new players to that hegemony. In fact, brothers Gene and Terrence Thornton (Malice and Pusha T, respectively) were born in that cradle of hip-hop the Bronx, but they spent their formative years on the streets of Virginia. LORD WILLIN' is the duo's second try at a debut album, as their previous effort for another label was indefinitely shelved. Turns out it was worth the wait. Produced by none other than the super-hot Neptunes, every track here pulsates with a crisp, funky energy that fully matches the sharply honed rhymes of the Thornton brothers, most spectacularly of all on the autobiographical "Young Boy," which is powered by one of the hardest-hitting grooves in recent memory. |
Producer: The Neptunes |
Engineer: Andrew "Drew" Coleman |
Musical Guests | | Fabolous | | Faith Evans | | Jermaine Dupri | | Jadakiss | | Ab-Liva | | Roscoe P Goldchain | | Styles |
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| Rolling Stone (9/5/02, p.74)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Their verses roll out with an infectious strut, but it's the Neptunes beats backing them up that elevate this to radio-hit heights..."Entertainment Weekly (12/20-27/02, p.128)
- Ranked #9 on EW's list of 2002's "Albums of the Year" Entertainment Weekly (9/13/02, p.156)
- "...The Clipse seize the moment with hustlers' tales culled from Virginia's mean streets, a raw compliment to the Neptune's artsy, unrepentant grime..." - Rating: B CMJ (9/16/02)
- "...LORD WILLIN' is a funky juxtaposition of gritty haze slingin' tales....thankfully, Clipse pushes rhymes like it pushes weight..." |
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