The Id (album)

Infobox Album
Name = The Id
Type = studio
Artist = Macy Gray


Released = Start date|2001|9|17
(see release history)
Recorded = Aragon Ballroom
(Chicago, Illinois)
Paramount Studios
(Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) Remote Recording Services
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
The Record Plant
(Hollywood, Los Angeles, California)
The Studio
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Genre = R&B, soul, neo soul
Length = 56:26
Label = Epic
Producer = Macy Gray (also executive), Darryl Swann
Reviews = *Allmusic rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6t0qoaqaqijm link]
*PopMatters [http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/g/graymacy-id.shtml link]
*"Rolling Stone" rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/macygray/albums/album/218709/review/5945173/the_id link]
Last album = "On How Life Is"
(1999)
This album = "The Id"
(2001)
Next album = "The Trouble with Being Myself"
(2003)
Misc = Singles
Name = The Id
Type = studio
Single 1 = Sweet Baby
Single 2 = Sexual Revolution

"The Id" is the second studio album by American R&B/soul singer Macy Gray, released in September 2001 (see 2001 in music) by Epic Records, just after the September 11, 2001 attacks, perhaps the main reason for its underperformance in the U.S.; it debuted and peaked at number eleven on the "Billboard" 200, but fell to number twenty-five the following week. Nevertheless, "The Id" (frequently mistyped as "The ID") charted higher than Gray's debut album "On How Life Is" in several European countries, reaching the top position in the United Kingdom and Denmark. It also managed to produce the critically-acclaimed single "Sweet Baby", which features fellow R&B/soul singer Erykah Badu.

Track listing

#"Relating to a Psychopath" (Macy Gray, Jeremy Ruzumna, David Wilder, Darryl Swann) – 4:48
#"Boo" (Gray, Ruzumna, Wilder, Swann, Victor Indrizzo, Zac Rae) – 4:25
#"Sexual Revolution" (Gray, Ruzumna, Wilder, Swann) – 4:45
#"Hey Young World Part 2" (featuring Slick Rick) (Gray, Ricky Walters, Dante Beze, Lamont Dorrell, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder) – 4:03
#"Sweet Baby" (featuring Erykah Badu) (Gray, Joe Solo) – 3:49
#"Harry" (Gray) – 3:10
#"Gimme All Your Lovin' or I Will Kill You" (Gray, Ruzumna, Swann, Arik Marshall, Rita Marley) – 4:45
#"Don't Come Around" (featuring Sunshine Anderson) (Gray, Ruzumna) – 4:37
#"My Nutmeg Phantasy" (featuring Angie Stone and Mos Def) (Gray, Swann, Keith Ciancia, Finn Hammer, Lonnie Marshall, Tom Ralls) – 4:55
#"Freak Like Me" (Gray, Swann, Gary Zekley, Eric Hord) – 3:38
#"Oblivion" (Gray) – 2:49
#"Forgiveness" (Gray, Swann, Hoyt Axton) – 5:17
#"Blowin' Up Your Speakers" (Gray, Swann) – 1:08
#"Shed" (hidden track) – 4:17

Personnel

Musicians

*Macy Gray – lead vocals, backing vocals
*Stephanie Alexander – backing vocals
*Sunshine Anderson – vocals
*Issiah J. Avila – drums
*Erykah Badu – vocals
*Marina Bambino – percussion, backing vocals
*Steve Baxter – trombone
*Dawn Beckman – backing vocals, skit
*Printz Board – horn, trumpet, backing vocals
*Dustin Boyer – guitar
*Tim Carmon – organ
*Davey Chedwiggen – percussion
*Keith Ciancia – Moog synthesizer, Kurzweil, Farfisa organ, Whirly organ
*Marc Cross – backing vocals
*Brian J. Durack – organ
*DJ Kiilu – scratches
*Mike Elizondo – bass
*Fannie Franklin – backing vocals
*Herb Graham, Jr. – drums
*Victor Indrizzo – drums
*Tim Izo – saxophone, clarinet, flute, backing vocals
*Darren Johnson – Fender Rhodes
*Gabby Lang – sitar
*Jinsoo Lim – guitar
*Jane Lopez – backing vocals
*Arik Marshall – guitar
*Lonnie "Meganut" Marshall – bass
*Mos Def – vocals
*Dion Murdock – drums
*Audra Nishita – backing vocals
*Billy Preston – organ, clavichord
*Zac Rae – organ, synthesizer, clarinet, piano, guitar, Chamberlin, Moog synthesizer, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Stylophone, Casio, Whirly organ
*Tom Ralls – trombone
*Thom Russo – backing vocals
*Jeremy Ruzumna – organ, synthesizer, piano, clavichord, Moog synthesizer, skit, Whirly organ
*Raphael Saadiq – guitar
*Jim Sitterly – violin
*Slick Rick – vocals
*Sy Smith – backing vocals
*Angie Stone – vocals
*Darryl Swann – guitar, percussion, backing vocals, skit
*Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson – drums, percussion
*Frank Walker – percussion
*Lejon Walker – backing vocals
*Tracy Wannamoe – clarinet
*Latina Webb – backing vocals
*David Wilder – bass
*Pamela Williams – backing vocals
*James Wooten – organ
*Ericka Yancey – backing vocals

Production

*Macy Gray – producer, executive producer, vocal arrangement
*Ricky Chao – engineer
*Jeff Chestek – engineer
*DJ Kiilu – co-producer
*Phil Gitomer – engineer
*Jay Goin – engineer, mixing assistant
*Lili Haydn – string arrangements
*Steven Kadison – mastering assistant
*Anthony Kilhoffer – mixing assistant
*Tim LeBlanc – engineer
*Sean McClintock – engineer
*Vlado Meller – mastering
*Mike Melnick – engineer
*John Myers – engineer
*Alissa Myhowich – mixing assistant
*Adam Olmsted – engineer
*Robert Read – mixing assistant
*Rick Rubin – executive producer
*Thom Russo – mixing
*Raphael Saadiq – co-producer, string arrangements
*Darryl Swann – producer, programming, engineer, vocal arrangement, string arrangements
*Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson – co-producer, mixer
*Charles Veal, Jr. – string arrangements
*Rich Veltrop – mixing assistant
*Dave Way – mixing
*Krystof Zizka – engineer

Charts

References

succession box
before = "Love and Theft" by Bob Dylan
title = Danish Albums Chart number-one album
years = September 28, 2001
after = "Girls Night Out" by Cowgirlssuccession box
before = "A Funk Odyssey" by Jamiroquai
title = UK Albums Chart number-one album
years = September 29, 2001
after = "No Angel" by Dido