- The Neptunes Present... Clones
Infobox Album
Name = The Neptunes Present... Clones
Type =Compilation album
Artist =Various Artists
Released =August 19 ,2003
Recorded =
Genre = Hip hop
Length = 65:04
Label = Star Trak
Producer =The Neptunes
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:qfuj6j8371w0 link]
*"Rolling Stone " Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theneptunes/albums/album/317364/review/5944512/the_neptunes_presentclones link]"The Neptunes Present... Clones" is an album of songs from various artists, produced by the production duo of
Chad Hugo andPharrell Williams , known asThe Neptunes . It was released onAugust 19 ,2003 , and debuted at #1 on theBillboard 200 Albums Chart. The album featured four singles; "Frontin' " byPharrell , "Light Your Ass On Fire" byBusta Rhymes , "Hot Damn " byClipse and "It Blows My Mind" bySnoop Dogg .Track listing
#"Intro" by
The Neptunes – 0:31
#"Light Your Ass On Fire" byBusta Rhymes featuringPharrell – 3:44
#"Blaze of Glory" byClipse featuring Pharrell &Ab-Liva – 3:56
#"It Wasn't Us" byLudacris featuring I-20 – 3:39
#"Frontin' " by Pharrell featuringJay-Z – 3:56
#"Good Girl" byVanessa Marquez – 4:15
#"If" byNelly – 3:45
#"Hot" byRosco P. Coldchain featuring Pusha T & Boo-Bonic – 3:41
#"It Blows My Mind" bySnoop Dogg – 5:04
#"Half-Steering..." bySpymob – 3:39
#"Fuck N' Spend" byThe High Speed Scene – 1:31
#"Loser" byN*E*R*D featuring Clipse – 3:18
#"Rock N' Roll" byFAM-LAY featuring Kelis– 4:24
#"The Don of Dons (Put De Ting Pon Dem)" bySuper Cat featuringJadakiss – 4:15
#"Hot Damn " by Clipse featuring Ab-Liva, Pharrell & Rosco P. Coldchain – 4:08
#"Put 'Em Up" byN.O.R.E. featuring Pharrell – 3:36
#"Pop Shit" by Dirt McGirt featuring Pharrell – 3:39
#"Popular Thug" byKelis featuring Nas – 3:57Trivia
*The song "The Don of Dons (Put De Ting Pon Dem)" by
Super Cat was originally supposed to feature rapper Foxy Brown but Def Jam didn't clear her to be on the song. There is an unreleased Foxy Brown song called "The Original" that was leaked in 2003 that has the same Neptunes beat. These may have been the verses that were originally supposed to be for this song.*Other songs that did not make the cut on this album were "Midnight Lady" by Super Cat and "Sweet Lies" by Usher. Only a small part of "Midnight Lady" has ever been leaked.
*For the song "It Blow My Mind"
Chad Hugo explains in an interview about the different instruments throughout the song. He claims that production partnerPharrell Williams used theKorg Triton for the horns,Korg for thedrum s, and aMinimoog Voyager for themelody at theoutro of the song.*The beat for the song "It Wasn't Us" was originally used for a song called "Where's Yours At?" by Pharrell featuring French rapper
Rohff that appeared on the soundtrack to the French film "Taxi 3 "*The song "Popular Thug" originally appeared on Kelis's second album, "
Wanderland ", but featured rapper Pusha T, one half of the rap duoClipse .Chart positions
Credits
*Executive Producers-
Pharrell Williams , andChad Hugo forStar Trak Entertainment
*All tracks produced byThe Neptunes
*Pharrell Williams - keyboards,synthesizer s, Drum Progamming, mixing
*Chad Hugo - keyboards, sequencer, mixingsuccession box
before = "Greatest Hits Volume II and Some Other Stuff"
byAlan Jackson
title = "Billboard" 200 number-one album
years =August 31 2003 -September 6 2003
after = "Love & Life" byMary J. Blige
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