Professional Part 3 (Cln) (1998)

Artist: Dj Clue
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Label: ROC-A-FELLA
UPC: 00602498798904
Release Date: 12/19/2006
Buy.com Sku: 203410198
Item#: M3DDFE
Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. War - (with Nas) ~ DJ Clue
2. Clear Da Scene - (with Lil Wayne/Rick Ross/Ransom) ~ DJ Clue
3. F*ck Off - (with Juelz Santana/Young Jeezy) ~ DJ Clue
4. Gold, The - (with Mobb Deep) ~ DJ Clue
5. I Really Wanna Know You - (with Jagged Edge/Fabolous) ~ DJ Clue
6. Week Ago, Part 1, A - (with Mario Winans/The Game) ~ DJ Clue
7. Like This - (with Fabolous/Kanye West) ~ DJ Clue
8. Almost F*cked - (with Snoop Dogg) ~ DJ Clue
9. Grill & Woman - (with Bun B/Paul Wall/Mike Jones) ~ DJ Clue
10. Liberty Bell - (with Cassidy/Beanie Sigel/Freeway) ~ DJ Clue
11. Da Boss - (with Fabolous) ~ DJ Clue
12. Animal, The - (with Styles P.) ~ DJ Clue
13. Middle Finger U - (with Cam'Ron/Juelz Santana) ~ DJ Clue
14. Giantz Of NYC - (with M.O.P.) ~ DJ Clue
15. You Don't Really Wanna - (with Fat Joe/Remy Ma) ~ DJ Clue
16. Ugly (Thug It Out) - (with Jadakiss/Swizz Beatz) ~ DJ Clue
17. Week Ago, Part 2, A - (with Mario Winans/The Game) ~ DJ Clue
18. Uptown - (with Consequence) ~ DJ Clue

(P) 2006 Roc-A-Fella Records, LLC
(C) 2006 Roc-A-Fella Records, LLC

 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Personnel: DJ Clue, Puff Daddy, DMX, Jadakiss, Styles, Drag-On, Eve, Cam-Ron, Big Pun, Noreaga, Canibus, Nas, Nature, Jay-Z, Ja Rule, Memphis Bleek, EPMD, Redman, Keith Murray, Flipmode Squad, Mase, Foxy Brown, Fabulous Sport, Mobb Deep, Noyd, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, Mocha, Nicole Wray, Jermaine Dupri, R.O.C., Raekwon, Lord Tariq, Muggs, Made Men, MOP, Baby Sham, Boot Camp Clik (rap vocals); Mariah Carey (vocals); David Matos (guitar); Martha Mook (strings); Lil' Rob (keyboards, bass); DURO (keyboards).
Producers include: Swizz Beatz, Clue, DURO, Self, D.J. Scratch.
Engineers include: Steve Sounder, Patrick Viala, Vaughn Session.
Additional personnel: Mario Winans (vocals); Consequence, Fabolous, Fat Joe, Freeway, Jadakiss, Jagged Edge, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, M.O.P., Mike Jones , Mobb Deep, Nas, Paul Wall , Ransom, Remy Ma, Rick Ross , Snoop Dogg, Styles P, Swizz Beatz, The Game, Young Jeezy, Beanie Sigel, Cam'ron, Juelz Santana, Bun B, Cassidy (rap vocals).
DJ Clue has never been much of DJ. He's never worked with turntables, cut, scratched, mixed or blended beats, let alone pulled off any of the body tricks tricks that regularly make jaws drop. He has, however, risen to the top of the mixtape game, amassing an impressive collection of top-selling tapes and CDs famous for their exclusives from some of the industry's hottest artists and for Clue's own signature high-volume shouts. On THE PROFESSIONAL 3, Clue brings more of the same with exclusive cuts from hip-hop giants like Nas, Young Jeezy, Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, Mobb Deep, M.O.P., Jadakiss, Fat Joe, and Fabolous, among others.
Now rolling with Roc-A-Fella y'all, Clue?'s days of slinging tapes on your neighborhood corner are all but over. Recognized worldwide for reinventing the art of the mixtape, Clue? enlisted some of hip-hop's biggest guns for his major-label debut. Aiding Clue? in his quest for the Clueminati, Nas revisits his Illmatic roots with "Queensfinest." The pairing of Cam'Ron, Big Pun, Noreaga, and Canibus on "Fantastic Four" is worth mentioning solely for the hypnotic verse Canibus delivers. Jayhovah touches down, lending his labelmate a hand, combining forces with Ja-Rule for some "Gangsta Shit." Mobb Deep and Big Noyd are at it once again on "The Professional," as they are merciless on a fiery, violin-laced number from Vic. Meanwhile, EPMD and the Def Squad play hot potato on "It's My Thang '99" and Raekwon lends his lyrical swordmanship to "Brown Paper Bag Thoughts." Like any mixtape or soundtrack, you have to accept the good and bad with a grain of salt. Clue? makes feeble attempts to refresh cuts like "That's the Way" featuring Mase, Foxy, and Fabolous Sport and "I Like Control" featuring Missy, Mocha, and Nicole Wray, leaving them virtually untouched. Clue? definitely knows how to move the crowd and does serve up another installment of exclusive material, but he implements little of the turntable manipulation that makes DJs so vital to the art of hip-hop. As Pete Rock stated ever so eloquently, "This I dedicate to those mixtapes I hate/Exclusive sh*t/It holds no weight/Put your skills on the plate/Backspin to '88." ~ Matt Conaway
And then DJ Clue rocked the roof off of your car. Clue and crew swoop down and make mincemeat of the joint with a fireball of raw ghetto rhyming, authentically old-school style loops and size-XL beats.
The feel here is often spooky--from the mournful trumpet line and ominous harpsichord on "Exclusive-New Shit" to the plaintive piano fragments on "Thugged Out Shit," the samples give Clue's production the aural equivalent of a long, black cape. The guest list impresses as well: Big Pun, Noreaga, Nature, EPMD and Missy Elliott are just some of the hip-hop luminaries that make this thing burn. Flipmode Squad and the "Clue-minati" form an alliance on the hard-riffing "Whatever You Want," with the Flipmode kids' angular rhyming style enlivening this greenback anthem. DJ Clue has all the stylistic integrity of a real East Coast original.

Musical Guests
Puff Daddy
Jadakiss
Styles
Drag-On
DMX
Cam'Ron
Big Pun
Noreaga
Canibus
Nas
Nature
Jay-Z
Ja Rule
EPMD
Foxy Brown

 
Compilation Appearances
Passion
Streets Is Watching
Www.thug.com (Bonus Tracks) (Explicit Version)
Vol. 4-60 Minutes Of Funk (Explicit Version)
Endangered Species (Explicit Version)
Glitter
Fidel Cashflow
Drank Epidemic 5(Explicit Version)

 
Associated Artists and Works
Storm, DJ
Fidel Cashflow [2005] [PA] ~ Various Artists
Various Artists

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 12/19/2006
Original Release Date : 1998
Catalog ID : B-000616402
Label : Def Jam (USA)
Number of Discs : 1
Runtime : 69m : 1s
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00602498798904

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (2/18/99, p.58)
- "...Less a scratchmaster...than a pure party mover....With its seamless club-style mixes, THE PROFESSIONAL comes off like a greatest-hits collection, except that these 'hits' haven't been released before."

The Source (3/99, p.210)
- "...THE PROFESSIONAL is another phat-ass Clue tape, more polished and with less shouts....And as a DJ, Clue's goals are unmistakable..."

  


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