Capital Punishment
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April 28, 1998 |
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| Label (s) | Loud Records / Terror Squad | ||||||||
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CD |
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24 |
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71:53 |
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Capital Punishment (English for the death penalty ) is the debut album by American rapper Big Punisher . It was released on April 28, 1998 on the Loud Records and Terror Squad Entertainment labels .
production
Big Pun himself as well as Fat Joe and Matt Life served as executive producers on the album . In addition, many other music producers were involved in the production of the songs, including Dr. Dre , JuJu , VIC , RZA , LES and Dead Prez .
Most of the songs were produced using samples from songs by other artists.
Cover design
The album cover shows Big Punisher's face. He wears sunglasses on his forehead and looks grimly at the viewer. At the top left of the picture is the lettering Big Pun in black and in the lower part is the title Capital Punishment in white and gray.
Guest Posts
In addition to Big Pun, other artists are represented on 13 of the 24 titles. His crewmate from the Terror Squad , Fat Joe , has guest appearances on the songs Beware , Glamor Life and Twinz (Deep Cover 98) . The rappers Black Thought , Wyclef Jean , Cuban Link , Triple Seis , Armaggedon , Prospect , Dead Prez , Noreaga , Prodigy , Inspectah Deck and Busta Rhymes can each be heard on one track. In addition, the DJ Funkmaster Flex has a guest appearance in a Skit and the singer Joe sings the chorus of the track Still Not a Player , while the singer Miss Jones sings the chorus of Punish Me .
Track list
| # | title | Guest Posts | Producers | length | Samples |
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| 1 | Intro | 0:33 |
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| 2 | Beware | Fat Joe | JuJu | 3:15 |
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| 3 | Great lyrical | Black Thought | Rockwilder | 3:28 |
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| 4th | Taster's Choice (Skit) | 1:20 | |||
| 5 | Still not a player | Joe | Knobody and Dahoud & Nomad | 3:56 |
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| 6th | Intermission | Mike Zulu | 0:21 | ||
| 7th | The Dream Shatterer | Domingo | 3:33 |
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| 8th | Punish Me | Miss Jones | Franky "Nitty" Pimentel | 4:15 | |
| 9 | Pakinamac Pt. 1 (skit) | 1:35 | |||
| 10 | You ain't a killer | Younglord | 4:14 |
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| 11 | Pakinamac Pt. 2 (skit) | 0:57 | |||
| 12 | Caribbean Connection | Wyclef Jean | Younglord | 3:24 |
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| 13 | Glamor life | Cuban Link , Triple Seis , Fat Joe and Armaggedon | LES | 4:43 |
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| 14th | Capital Punishment | Prospect | The Infinite Arkatechz | 4:20 | |
| 15th | Uncensored (Skit) | Funkmaster Flex | 2:12 | ||
| 16 | I'm not a player | Minnesota | 3:41 |
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| 17th | Twinz (Deep Cover 98) | Fat Joe | Dr. Dre | 3:49 |
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| 18th | The Rain & The Sun (Interlude) | Dead Prez | Dead Prez | 1:49 | |
| 19th | boomerang | VIC | 3:35 |
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| 20th | You came up | Noreaga | Rockwilder | 3:54 |
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| 21st | Tres Leches (Triboro Trilogy) | Prodigy and Inspectah Deck | RZA | 4:19 |
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| 22nd | Charlie Rock Shout | 0:26 | |||
| 23 | Almost money | Danny Q and EQ | 3:48 | ||
| 24 | Parental discretion | Busta Rhymes | Showbiz | 4:33 |
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Chart success and singles
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Capital Punishment reached number 5 in the US charts and stayed in the top 200 for 28 weeks. In Europe, the album could not place in the charts.
The songs I'm Not a Player (US # 57, 20 weeks), Still Not a Player (US # 24, 23 weeks), You Came Up and Twinz (Deep Cover 98) were released as singles.
Sales figures and awards
The album was awarded a platinum record in the year of its release in the United States for more than one million copies sold , making it the first record by a Latin American solo rapper to receive this award. In Canada, Capital Punishment received a gold record for over 50,000 sales .
Moreover, it was at the Grammy Awards 1999 as Best Rap Album nominated, but lost Jay-Z's Vol. 2 ... Hard Knock Life .
reception
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| laut.de |
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| Juice |
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Capital Punishment received generally positive reviews.
The website laut.de recognized the album as a milestone in 2014 and rated it with five out of a possible five points:
"Pun really gets everything out of itself on" Capital Punishment ". With Wyclef he founds the reggae-infected "Caribbean Connection", unpacked the godfather for "Glamor Life" and the socially critical one on the title track. Even the rap stars around Mobb Deep and Wu-Tang mentioned at the beginning are only guests on his ride into the history books. [...] New York had its new king and the Latin American community its hero. From the abused child to the racket and drug dealer to the superstar beloved everywhere - the story of Christopher Lee Rios really deserved more years or even a happy ending. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ album cover
- ↑ Big Punisher Search at the-breaks.com
- ↑ Chart sources: DE ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. AT CH UK US
- ↑ Chart tracking Capital Punishment on billboard.com
- ↑ Chart tracking Singles on billboard.com
- ↑ RIAA: Gold / Platinum Awards Big Punisher
- ↑ CRIA: Gold / Platinum Awards Big Punisher
- ↑ Rating: laut.de (milestone)
- ↑ Rating: Juice (magazine) # 6-crown albums
- ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone ( Memento from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Rating: allmusic.com
- ↑ Review: RapReviews.com
- ↑ laut.de: Review of the sound carrier
