Duets: The Final Chapter

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Duets: The Final Chapter
Duets: The Final Chapter cover
Studio album by Notorious B.I.G.
Released December 02, 2005
Recorded 1994 - 2005
Genre East Coast hip hop, Hardcore hip hop, Mafioso rap
Length 73:30
Label Bad Boy
Producer Diddy, Eminem, Faith Evans, Swizz Beatz, Jazze Pha, Scott Storch, among others
Professional reviews
Notorious B.I.G. chronology
Born Again
(1999)		 Duets: The Final Chapter
(2005)		 Greatest Hits
(2007)

Duets: The Final Chapter is the third posthumous album by The Notorious B.I.G. The album was released by Bad Boy Records on December 20, 2005 and charted at #3 selling 438,000 copies, beaten by the extremely high sales of Jamie Foxx's Unpredictable and Mary J Blige's The Breakthrough[1]. In the UK it climbed as high as #13 in the after the release of the album's first single "Nasty Girl". It is another of his posthumous albums that went platinum.

The album featured orchestrated duets between Biggie and a number of popular rappers and singers which many argued Biggie would have never thought of collaborating with[citation needed], much like the previous LP Born Again (1999). The package also included a DVD featuring previously unreleased performance footage and several of Biggie's music videos.

The album eventually became somewhat of a punchline among some rap fans in regards to an album that features a guest on almost every track, by mocking it with fake titles like "The (artist's name) Duets".[citation needed]

The album was also released in a censored edition removing profanity (even references to going to hell) and sex drug-related content. Violent lyrics are also censored but violent sound effects aren't.

An unofficial video was made for the song Whatchu Want by 33Post.com[2] featuring an unreleased live performance superimposed in a digital Time Square.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

Track Song Producer Featuring Artists Original Lyrics Album
#1 Intro Jeffery "J-Dub" Walker for The Hitmen - -
#2 It Has Been Said Eminem Eminem, Obie Trice & Diddy - -
#3 Spit Your Game Swizz Beatz Twista & Krayzie Bone(Remix included 8 Ball & MJG) Notorious Thugs Spit Your Game (Original): Only on remix Life After Death
#4 Whatchu Want (The Commission) Danja Jay-Z What You Want (Freestyle) (Verse 1 & 2) Unreleased
#5 Get Your Grind On Sean Cane & LV for The Hitmen Big Pun, Fat Joe & Freeway My Downfall Life After Death
#6 Living The Life Coptic Sounds Cheri Dennis, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, Bobby Valentino & Faith Evans Let Me Get Down Born Again
#7 The Greatest Rapper (Interlude by Christopher Wallace jr) - - - -
#8 1970 Somethin' Dre & Vidal The Game & Faith Evans Respect Ready to Die
#9 Nasty Girl Jazze Pha Diddy, Nelly, Jagged Edge, Avery Storm Nasty Boy Life After Death
#10 Living In Pain Just Blaze Tupac Shakur, Nas, & Mary J. Blige House of Pain Ready 2 Die
#11 I'm With Whateva Steven "Stevie J" Jordan for The Hitmen Juelz Santana, Lil Wayne & Jim Jones Ready to Die Ready to Die
#12 Beef Havoc Mobb Deep What's Beef Life After Death
#13 My Dad (Interlude by T-yana Wallace) - - - -
#14 Hustler's Story Jeffery "J-Dub" Walker & Mario Winans for The Hitmen, Reefa, Suga Mike Akon, Scarface & Big Gee of Boyz N Da Hood You'll See Bad Boy Promotional Tape
#15 Breakin' Old Habits Chink Santana T.I. & Slim Thug Young G's No Way Out
#16 Ultimate Rush Scott Storch Missy Elliott Why You Trying to Play Me/Drugs Baller's Story/ Hard Core
#17 Mi Casa Jeffery "J-Dub" Walker & Mario Winans for The Hitmen, DJ Green Lantern R. Kelly & Charlie Wilson Friend of Mine Ready to Die
#18 Little Homie (Interlude) Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie for The Hitmen, Harve "Joe Hooker" Pierre - - -
#19 Hold Ya Head Clinton Sparks Bob Marley Suicidal Thoughts Ready to Die
#20 Just a Memory Scram Jones Clipse & Diddy You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You) Life After Death
#21 Wake Up Jonathan Davis, Atticus Ross KoRn If I Should Die Before I Wake/Kick In The Door Born Again/Life After Death
#22 Love Is Everlasting (Outro) - - -

[edit] Singles

The album's first single was "Nasty Girl", featuring Diddy, Nelly, and Jagged Edge. It took Biggie's vocal samples from his song "Nasty Boy". The single climbed to #1 in the UK in its second week of release, where it stayed for 2 weeks and became his first and only #1 single there. The single also helped the album climb to #13 and therefore, Duets: The Final Chapter became his highest charting album to date there, out peaking the #23 position of Life After Death. In the US, "Nasty Girl" made #45 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the single also made the top 20 in Australia.

The second single from the album is "Spit Your Game", featuring Twista and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, a double A-side single with "Hold Ya Head", a duet with the late Bob Marley, which was originally the b-side to "Nasty Girl" in the UK and Australia. "Spit Your Game" is a remake of the Biggie song "Notorious Thugs". "Hold Ya Head" was produced by Clinton Sparks, and features a sample from the Marley song "Johnny Was". It features Biggie's vocal samples from "Suicidal Thoughts".

[edit] Bonus Disc Track Listing

  1. "Want That Old Thing Back" (featuring Ralph Tresvant and Ja Rule)
  2. "Running Your Mouth" (featuring Foxy Brown, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Busta Rhymes and Fabolous)

Note: this was a Target Exclusive, Walmart also released a Walmart Exclusive with a bonus DVD, However the walmart exclusive was only available in an edited version

[edit] Songs that didn't make the final cut

[edit] Reception

The album was generally received poorly by critics, as it does not feature a great deal of new material from Biggie (many believe Diddy had used up Biggie's unreleased material on the posthumous album Born Again).[citation needed] Also because the album has a rather extensive list of guest rappers. Certain hip-hop fans view Diddy's release of the album as an exploitation of Biggie's legacy.[citation needed] It was also widely thought that Biggie would have never collaborated with many of the featured, known as sub-par, rappers.[citation needed] Method Man spoke this criticism by saying in a concert "They got people on that album Big would have never rocked with, for real. Musically, I ain't fuckin' with Puff Daddy."[citation needed] Some fans on the other hand, having chosen to listen to the album as more of a tribute to Notorious B.I.G., say that in nearly every song the guest rapper spends time talking about how they admire Biggie's music.

[edit] External links

  1. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/search/google/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001771325
  2. http://www.biggieduets.com/
  3. http://rapcityz.com/albumreviews5.htm

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