- Yeeeah Baby
Infobox Album
Name = Yeeeah Baby
Type =Album
Artist =Big Pun isher
Released =April 4 ,2000
Recorded =
Genre =Hardcore hip hop ,East Coast hip hop ,Latin rap
Length = 52:08
Label = Loud (U.S.)
Producer =Just Blaze Buckwild
L.E.S.
Sean Cane
DJ Shok
Richard "Younglord" FriersonKnobody
O.Gee
Mahogany
Minnesota
Guy Boogie
KNS
Jugrnaut
Mike "Trauma" D
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6oo20r6au48b/ link]
*"Rolling Stone " Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.buy.com/prod/Yeeeah_Baby_Explicit_Version/q/loc/109/60399417.html April 13, 2000, p. 128]
*"Q" Rating|3|5 [http://www.buy.com/prod/Yeeeah_Baby_Explicit_Version/q/loc/109/60399417.html July, 2000, p. 111]
*"NME " (7/10) [http://www.buy.com/prod/Yeeeah_Baby_Explicit_Version/q/loc/109/60399417.html April 29, 2000, p. 35]
*"The Cabstand" (rating-5|1.5) [http://thecabstand.webs.com/bigpunyeeeahbaby.htm]
Last album = "Capital Punishment" (1998)
This album = "Yeeeah Baby " (2000)
Next album = "Endangered Species" (2001)"Yeeeah Baby" is Big Pun's second solo album. In the wake of Big Pun's death in February 2000, it was posthumously released in April of the same year as planned, peaked at #3 on the
Billboard 200 charts, and subsequently went Platinum.Fat Joe , Pun's close friend and mentor, is the executive producer of the album. In his last magazine interview, conducted by "Industry Insider" only a week before his death, Pun detailed that his approach on "Yeeeah Baby" wasn't as "hardcore" as his previous album, "Capital Punishment", in an attempt to reach out to an even wider fanbase than his debut album already had. [ [http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1425716/20000315/story.jhtml News - Articles - 1425716 - 20000315 ] ]The original title that Big Pun selected for "Yeeeah Baby" was "Endangered Species," which was to later become the title of Pun's second posthumous album, released the following year.The album consist of two of Big Pun's biggest hits, the first single "It's So hard" and the Puerto Rican anthem "100%".
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