Hate It or Love It (album)

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Hate It or Love It
Hate It or Love It cover
Studio album by Chingy
Released Flag of the United States December 18, 2007
Recorded 2007
Genre Rap
Label Slot-A-Lot Records/Disturbing Tha Peace/Island Def Jam
Producer L.T. Moe
The Co-Stars
Michael Davis Slick Rick
Jared Gosselin
Full Scale
Calvo Da Gr8
Bei Maejor
Khao
Cool & Dre
The Ghost Writers
Jermaine Dupri
Professional reviews
Chingy chronology
Hoodstar
(2006)
Hate It or Love It (2007)
Singles from Hate It or Love It
  1. "Fly like Me"
    Released: November 13, 2007
  2. "Gimme Dat"
    Released: February 5, 2008


Hate It or Love It is the title of St. Louis rapper Chingy's fourth studio album. It was released on December 18, 2007. It is his second album with the Disturbing tha Peace label.[1]


Contents

[edit] Production

In an interview with MTV News on June 25, 2007, Chingy stated, "I just worked with Cool and Dre, Scott Storch, I'll probably go in with Timbaland, Kanye West, and Just Blaze to name a few." He has also recorded tracks for DTP's upcoming album Strength in Numbers.

During his appearance of the November 23rd edition of 106 & Park, he mentioned Ludacris, Trey Songz, Rick Ross, Amerie, Anthony Hamilton & Bobby Valentino to make appearances on the album.


[edit] Chart Performance

The album debuted at a disappointing #84 on the charts, selling a mere 31,000 copies. The St. Louis rapper's first three albums all managed to debut in the Top 10. Poor promotion and timing with the release of "Fly Like Me" have been blamed for the album's downfall.

[edit] UK success

Despite no promotion or official release over in the United Kingdom, quite a few copies are expected to have been officially sold via HMV.com who have been selling the album for only £2.99 for a lengthy amount of time as an import from the USA and therefore made the album hit as high as #3 on HMV's 'top 10 hip-hop albums chart' (dropped out the chart when price raised back to £9.99). Although this was obviously due to the cheap price, it still means that lots of copies have been sold and this cannot officially chart in the UK but this may have added to the album sales in the US and is a mini-success. "Hate It Or Love It" is the 1st Chingy album to have not been officially pressed and released in the UK (saw release in Japan & US) and many people are asking for the album to be released over in the UK officially with some bonus tracks and a fresh new cover although this seems unlikely as the record label will probably not fund this and because lots of copies have already been sold @ £2.99 (although it is now back at £9.99) or at a slightly price over from marketplace sellers on amazon.co.uk or from amazon directly. Fans are still hopeful


[edit] Track listing

# Title Producer(s) Featured Guest(s) Time
1 "Intro" LT Moe 0:44
2 "Hate It or Love It" Costarz 4:07
3 "Check My Swag" Michael Davis 3:33
4 "Fly Like Me" LT Moe Amerie 3:45
5 "Kick Drum" Jared Gossolin 3:40
6 "Gimme Dat" Full Scale Ludacris & Bobby Valentino 3:59
7 "All Aboard (Ride It)" Calvo Da Gr8 Steph Jones 4:04
8 "Trickin' Off Skit LT Moe Diamond of Crime Mob 0:22
9 "Spend Some $" Bel Da Maejor Trey Songz 3:32
10 "2 Kool 2 Dance" LT Moe 3:47
11 "Lovely Ladies" Khao 4:17
12 "How We Feel" LT Moe Anthony Hamilton; additional vocals by Bobby Valentino & Ice Cube 4:14
13 "Roll on 'Em" Cool & Dre Rick Ross 4:28
14 "Blockstar" The GhostWriters 4:33

[edit] B-Sides & Bonus Tracks

"St. Louis N***az" did not make the album "Remember When" & "Ain't No Way" are Japanese bonus tracks


[edit] Singles

The first official radio single is Fly Like Me featuring Amerie. The second single was announced by his Myspace and will be Gimme Dat Feat. Ludacris and Bobby Valentino.

The video will premiere on February 8th 2008 on TRL, 106 & Park And Yahoo Videos.

On February 5th 2008 the video leaked on to the internet.

The Second Single will be Spend Some featuring Trey Songz which was announced recently.

[edit] Chart performance

Chart (2008) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200 84
U.S. R&B 17
U.S. Rap 7
Japanese Oricon Album Chart 59
Japanese Oricon International Album Chart 13

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kevin C. Johnson (June 3, 2007). Chingy's Changes STLtoday. Accessed January 9, 2008.