Cheers (album)
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| Studio album by Obie Trice | |||||||
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September 22, 2003 |
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2002-2003 |
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| Label (s) | Shady Records , Interscope | ||||||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
17th |
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74:27 |
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Cheers ( English for Prost ) is the first solo album by the US rapper Obie Trice . It was released on September 22, 2003 via Eminem's Shady Records and Interscope labels .
Production and samples
Eminem , who was executive producer on the album , created the beats for Cheers , We All Die One Day , Hands on You and Never Forget Ya . He also produced in collaboration with Luis Resto the songs Average Man , Got Some Teeth and Lady while in Do not Come Down and Hoodrats worked with Emile. In Follow My Life , Eminem stood by Fredwreck's side and he produced the outro together with D12 member Denaun Porter and his discoverer Dr. Dre . Spread Yo Shit was produced by Denaun Porter alone. The producer duo Dr. Dre and Mike Elizondo shows up for the beats for The Set Up , Shit Hits the Fan , Look in My Eyes and Oh! responsible while Timbaland produced the song Bad Bitch .
Four songs on the album contain samples of songs by other artists. For example, Got Some Teeth features elements of the track Without Me by Eminem and Spread Yo Shit samples Blow My Buzz by D12 . Don't Come Down includes a sample of When You Believe by Quincy Jones and Tata, while Follow My Life samples the song Big Poppa by The Notorious BIG .
Cover design
The album cover shows a black and white photo of Obie Trice holding a glass of Hennessy to the viewer. He's wearing a headband that says Shady . The picture is framed in green, in the right part is the writing Obie Trice and below the title Cheers , the spelling of which is based on the TV series of the same name .
Guest Posts
Performances by other artists can be found on ten songs on the album. Obie Trice's discoverer Eminem can be heard on five songs ( Lady , We All Die One Day , Shit Hits the Fan , Hands on You , "Outro"). Rapper Nate Dogg appears on The Set Up and Look in My Eyes , while Obie Trice is supported by rapper and producer Timbaland on Bad Bitch . Dr. Dre has a guest appearance on the song Shit Hits the Fan and label colleague 50 Cent , as well as G-Unit member Lloyd Banks can be heard on We All Die One Day . In addition, D12 member Kon Artis appears at Spread Yo Shit , while the entire rap crew is represented in the outro with guest contributions. Furthermore, Busta Rhymes raps the chorus on the track Oh! .
Track list
| # | title | Guest Posts | producer | length |
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| 1 | Average Man | Eminem and Luis Resto | 4:16 | |
| 2 | Cheers | Eminem | 3:34 | |
| 3 | Got some teeth | Eminem and Luis Resto | 3:47 | |
| 4th | lady | Eminem | Eminem and Luis Resto | 4:45 |
| 5 | Don't come down | Eminem and Emile | 5:11 | |
| 6th | The set up | Nate Dogg | Dr. Dre and Mike Elizondo | 3:13 |
| 7th | Bad bitch | Timbaland | Timbaland | 4:09 |
| 8th | Shit hits the fan | Dr. Dre and Eminem | Dr. Dre and Mike Elizondo | 4:53 |
| 9 | Follow my life | Eminem and Fredwreck | 3:55 | |
| 10 | We All Die One Day | Eminem, 50 Cent and Lloyd Banks | Eminem | 5:29 |
| 11 | Spread yo shit | Kon Artis | Denaun Porter | 4:03 |
| 12 | Look in My Eyes | Nate Dogg | Dr. Dre and Mike Elizondo | 4:50 |
| 13 | Hands on you | Eminem | Eminem | 5:12 |
| 14th | Hoodrats | Eminem and Emile | 4:12 | |
| 15th | Oh! | Busta Rhymes | Dr. Dre and Mike Elizondo | 4:30 |
| 16 | Never Forget Ya | Eminem | 4:27 | |
| 17th | Outro | D12 | Eminem, Denaun Porter and Dr. Dre | 4:02 |
Chart successes and singles
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Cheers entered the German album charts at number 63 in the 41st calendar week of 2003 and was at number 87 the following week. The album then fell out of the Top 100, but was able to climb again at number 82 a week later before it did finally left the charts. In the United States, the record entered the charts at number 5 and stayed in the top 100 for 22 weeks.
The songs Got Some Teeth (US # 54, 11 weeks), The Set Up (US # 73, 4 weeks) and Don't Come Down were released as singles, none of which made it into the German charts.
Sales figures and awards
Cheers has sold over 1.2 million copies worldwide . For more than 500,000 copies sold in the USA alone, the album received a gold record there .
reception
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| Metacritic | 73% |
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| laut.de |
 
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| rap.de |
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Cheers received mostly positive reviews from critics. The site Metacritic calculated from twelve reviews of English-language media an average of 73%.
Stefan Johannesberg from laut.de rated the album with three out of a possible five points. Obie Trice will "certainly not roll up the rap game like Em or 50 Cent ," but on Cheers he delivers "a few very good approaches and a few very good songs." His "jagged flow of integrity" reminds me of Royce da 5'9 " . The album production is also highlighted positively.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Album cover on amazon.de
- ↑ Chart sources: DE ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2014 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 Cheers at musicline.de ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ USA # 5 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ US singles ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ RIAA : Search Results Gold and Platinum Awards from Obie Trice
- ↑ Rating: metacritic.com (English)
- ↑ a b Evaluation: laut.de
- ↑ Rating: rap.de
- ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone ( Memento from January 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Rating: allmusic.com
- ↑ Rating: RapReviews
