Repentance (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Repentance
Type = Album
Artist = Esham


Released = November 18 2003
Recorded = 2003
Genre = Hardcore hip hop, underground hip hop
Length = 61:22
Label = Psychopathic Records
Producer = Esham
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:vi5m96bokep7~T1 link]
Last album ="Acid Rain" (2002)
This album =Repentance (2003)
Next album ="A-1 Yola" (2005)

"Repentance" is the ninth studio album by Esham A. Smith. Released in 2003, it is his first album of new material to be released on Psychopathic Records. Because much of Smith's most well-known material had contained lyrics that were Satanic in nature, he had long been accused of Satanism and had long attempted to shed such perceptions.cite web |url=http://www.insaneclownposse.com/page.php?page_id=icp_wf_20020903 |title=Weekly Freekly: 2 |accessdate=2008-08-17 |last=Bruce |first=Joseph |coauthors= |date=June 25, 2004 |work= |publisher=Psychopathic Records |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20040820162159/www.insaneclownposse.com/page.php?page_id=icp_wf_20020903 |archivedate=2002-09-03] "Repentance" was produced as an attempt to "set the [...] record straight" and leave his former "Unholy" stage persona behind him. The album was originally announced under the title "Redemption".

"Repentance" peaked at #9 on the Top Heatseekers chart, #10 on the Top Independent Albums chart, and #71 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. [cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wvfexqqaldhe~T3 |title=Charts & Awards for "Repentance" |accessdate=2008-07-19 |publisher=Allmusic] In his review of the album, Allmusic's Jason Birchmeier wrote that "Repentance" is a small step forward for Esham. He seems very confident here, comfortable with himself as an artist" and that "when he pulls everything together [...] he makes some of the best music of his long, fruitful, yet largely unacknowledged career." [cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wvfexqqaldhe~T1 |title=Review of "Repentance" |accessdate=2008-08-17 |last=Birchmeier |first=Jason |publisher=Allmusic]

Track listing

Personnel

*Esham - performer
*Mike Puwal. - guitar

Production

*Producer: Esham
*Engineers: Esham, Fritz the Cat, Mike P.
*Mixing: Esham, Fritz the Cat, Mike P.
*Arranger: Esham

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

References