Release the Pressure (album)

Release the Pressure
Studio album by Criminal Nation
Released 1990
Recorded 1990
Genre Hip-Hop
Length 49:49
Label Nastymix Records
Producer Eugenious, Womack
Criminal Nation chronology

Release the Pressure
(1990)
Trouble in the Hood
(1992)
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Release the Pressure is the debut album by rap group, Criminal Nation. It was released in 1990 for Nastymix Records and was produced by the groups producers, Eugenious and Womack. The album peaked at #73 on the Billboard charts' Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and also featured the hit single, Insane, which made it to #17 on the Hot Rap Singles. The video for another single Black Power Nation, gained some airplay.

Track listing

  1. "Positively Funky"- 4:47
  2. "Black Power Nation"- 3:42
  3. "The Right Crowd"- 3:05
  4. "Insane"- 3:57
  5. "I'm Rollin'"- 5:22
  6. "My Laboratory"- 4:24
  7. "Violent Sound"- 2:48
  8. "Release the Pressure"- 5:18
  9. "Definitely Down for Trouble"- 4:49
  10. "Criminal Hit"- 3:34
  11. "Mission of Murder"- 4:35
  12. "Take No Prisoners"- 3:28