PeteStrumentals

PeteStrumentals
Studio album by Pete Rock
Released	May 1, 2001
Recorded	1990-2001
Genre	Hip Hop
Label	BBE Records
Producer	Pete Rock
Pete Rock chronology
Soul Survivor (1998) PeteStrumentals (2001) Lost & Found: Hip Hop Underground Soul Classics (2003)

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
RapReviews	[2]
Rolling Stone	favorable[3]

PeteStrumentals is an instrumental hip hop album from hip hop producer/rapper Pete Rock, his second solo release. The album is the second installment of BBE Records Beat Generation series, following Jay Dee's Welcome to Detroit album. The instrumental songs were originally recorded between 1990 and 1995, but were remixed and continued when putting together the album. All songs featuring vocals (The U.N., Freddie Foxxx, C.L. Smooth & Nature) were recorded exclusively for this project between 2000 and 2001.

There are two versions of this album. On the first version, twelve of the fourteen tracks are instrumentals, and the tracks "Cake" and "Nothin' Lesser" both feature rapping from The UN. On the second, five out of sixteen tracks feature vocals from The UN, Freddie Foxxx, Nature, and Rock's former partner, CL Smooth. The updated version of the album was a result of Rock being blown away by Jay Dee's Welcome to Detroit which made him feel he needed to better his own contribution to the Beat Generations series.

The 10 year anniversary expanded and limited edition of PeteStrumentals was released on May 10, 2011. Featuring the original 2001 albums tracks on disc one. Disc two is a bonus disc featuring all the 12" inch singles from the album. Including a remix of "BACK ON THE BLOCK" featuring CL Smooth, a clean version of "CAKE" featuring The UN, and acappella and instrumental versions of "BACK ON THE BLOCK", "NOTHIN' LESSER", "MIND FRAME" & "GIVE IT TO Y'ALL". Along with "Outro" instrumental. ^[4]

Track listing

First edition

Second edition

2011 10th Anniversary Edition

Disc 1

The first disc has the same track listing as the Second Edition.^[5]

Disc 2

Samples

• "Smooth Sailing"
  • "Quiet Lady" by The Thad Jones & Mel Lewis Orchestra
• "The Boss"
  • "The Boss" by James Brown
  • "Satin Doll" by Dorothy Ashby
• "Pete's Jazz"
  • "You Can't Hide Love" by Creative Source (R&B band)
  • "Open Your Eyes You Can Fly" by Gary Burton
• "Walk On By"
  • "Walk On By" by Isaac Hayes
• "Give It To Y'all"
  • "Humpty Dumpty" by Placebo
  • "Instrumental Prelude" by Freda Payne
• "A Little Soul"
  • "Tensity" by The Cannonball Adderley Quintet and Orchestra
  • "Love Song No. 690" by McFadden & Whitehead
  • "Sessão Das Dez" by Emilio Santiago
• "Play Dis Only At Night"
  • "Theme from the Planets" by Dexter Wansel
  • "Baby This Love I Have" by Minnie Ripperton
  • "Stop The Rain" by Average White Band
• "What You Waiting For"
  • "Games" by Dorothy Ashby
  • "Tensity" by The Cannonball Adderley Quintet and Orchestra
• "Take The D Train"
  • "You're The One For Me" by D. Train

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