Endangered Species

Endangered Species
Big Punisher's compilation album
Publication (s)	April 3, 2001
Label (s)	Loud Records
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	East coast hip hop , hardcore rap
Title (number)	24
running time	73:23
production	Fat Joe ( Executive Producer ) Sean Cane (Executive Producer) Dr. Dre Irv Gotti The Beatnuts Swizz Beatz The alchemist Darkchild Poke & Tone DJ clue K-cut among others
chronology Yeeeah Baby (2000) Endangered Species The Legacy: The Best of Big Pun (2009)
Single release January 19, 2001 How We Roll

Endangered Species (Engl. For endangered species ) is a compilation album of American rapper Big Punisher . It was released on April 3, 2001 on the Loud Records label .

content

The compilation contains three well-known songs from Big Pun's debut album Capital Punishment ( You Ain't a Killer , Twinz (Deep Cover '98) , Still Not a Player ). It also includes eight guest contributions by the rapper from albums by other artists. The remaining 13 tracks represent previously unpublished material.

production

Big Pun's rap colleague Fat Joe and Sean Cane served as executive producers on the album. In addition, many other music producers were involved in the production of the selected songs, including Dr. Dre , Irv Gotti , The Beatnuts , Swizz Beatz , The Alchemist , Darkchild , Poke & Tone , DJ Clue and K-Cut .

Cover design

The album cover shows Big Pun wearing a black hat that covers his eyes in shadow. The background is in orange tones. In the lower part of the picture there is the word Big Pun in large orange letters and below that the title Endangered Species in white.

Guest Posts

In addition to Big Pun, 17 of the 24 tracks feature other artists, including his crewmates from the Terror Squad ; Fat Joe (who has eight guest appearances), Tony Sunshine, Cuban Link , Remy Ma , Armageddon, Prospect and Triple Seis. Singer Joe is on the song Still Not a Player and singer Ashanti sings the chorus of How We Roll . Other guest contributions come from the rappers The Beatnuts , Noreaga , Jadakiss , Styles P. , Nature, Cam'ron , Nas , Raekwon , Sheik , Kool G Rap and B-Real . There is also a remix of the track Top of the World with the singer Brandy on the album and the singer Ricky Martin can be heard in the piece Livin 'La Vida Loca (remix) . Big Pun's children and singer Veronica sing the chorus of How We Roll '98 .

Track list

#	title	Guest Posts	Producers	length	album
1	Intro			0:16
2	You ain't a killer		Younglord	3:52	Capital Punishment
3	Twinz (Deep Cover '98)	Fat Joe	Dr. Dre	3:48	Capital Punishment
4th	Whatcha Gon Do		Juju Gigante	3:07	The album
5	How We Roll	Ashanti	Irv Gotti and Tru Stylze	3:34
6th	Still not a player	Joe	Knobody	3:56	Capital Punishment
7th	Off the books	The Beatnuts and Cuban Link	The Beatnuts	2:48	Stone crazy
8th	Words from Nore	Noreaga		0:52
9	Banned from TV	Noreaga, Jadakiss , Styles P. , Nature and Cam'ron	Swizz Beatz	4:19	NORE
10	Mom	Tony Sunshine	The alchemist	4:16
11	The Beat Box			0:14
12	Brave in the heart	Triple Seis , Fat Joe and Prospect	VIC and Mike Heron	3:56
13	The Dream Shatterer (Original Version)		Buckwild	3:19
14th	Words with Fat Joe	Fat Joe		0:37
15th	John Blaze	Fat Joe, Nas , Raekwon and Jadakiss	ski	4:06	Don Cartagena
16	My World		EZ Elpee	3:29
17th	Pina Colada	Sheik	Swizz Beatz	4:09	Ryde or Die Vol. 1
18th	Top of the World (Remix)	Brandy and Fat Joe	Darkchild	3:48	U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To) - The Remix EP
19th	Livin 'La Vida Loca (Remix)	Ricky Martin , Fat Joe and Cuban Link	Poke & Tone	2:44
20th	Fire water	Fat Joe, Armageddon and Raekwon	Showbiz	4:15	B-side of the single Envy
21st	Classic Verses (Drop It Heavy & Fantastic 4)		Showbiz, DJ Clue and Duro	2:18	Full Scale and The Professional
22nd	Freestyle with Remy Martin	Remy Martin	Sean Cane	1:33
23	Wishful thinking	Fat Joe, Kool G Rap and B-Real	Showbiz	4:00
24	How We Roll '98	Pun's Kids and Veronica	Tumblin Dice and K-Cut	4:07

Chart success and single

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Endangered Species   US 7th 04/21/2001 (9 weeks)

Endangered Species reached number 7 in the US charts and stayed in the top 200 for nine weeks. In Europe, the album could not place in the charts.

The song How We Roll was released as a single .

Professional reviews
Reviews
source	rating
Rolling Stone
allmusic
RapReviews

Individual evidence

1. ↑ album cover
2. ↑ 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 
3. ↑ Chart tracking Endangered Species on billboard.com
4. ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone ( Memento of October 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Rating: allmusic.com
6. ↑ Review: RapReviews.com