The Great Depression (Album)

The Great Depression
Studio album from DMX
Publication (s)	October 23, 2001
Label (s)	Ruff Ryders Entertainment , Def Jam Recordings
Format (s)	CD , LP , MC
Genre (s)	Hardcore rap , east coast hip-hop
Title (number)	17th
running time	72:57
production	DMX ( Executive Producer ) Dee (Executive Producer) Waah Dean (Executive Producer) Latarche Nas Collins (Co Executive Producer) Lady Grease Swizz Beatz Just Blaze PK Kidd Kold Black Key
chronology ... And Then There Was X (1999) The Great Depression Grand Champ (2003)
Single releases August 28, 2001 We Right Here September 18, 2001 Who We Be January 15, 2002 I miss you

The Great Depression ( English for " the great depression ") is the fourth studio album of American rapper DMX . It was released on October 23, 2001 on the labels Ruff Ryders Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings .

production

DMX, who also produced some songs himself, acted as executive producers on the album, as well as Dee, Waah Dean and Latarche Nas Collins . Four songs were produced by Dame Grease , while Swizz Beatz contributed two instrumentals. Other beats come from music producers Just Blaze , Black Key, PK and Kidd Kold.

Cover design

The album cover is kept in dark green tones and shows a jetty on the water. Above that, the contours of DMX's face are indicated, who is looking at the viewer. At the top of the picture are the gray letters DMX and at the bottom of the picture is the title The Great Depression in green.

Guest Posts

DMX is supported by different singers on four of the songs on the album. Dia has a guest appearance on the song Bloodline Anthem , while Stephanie Mills can be heard on When I'm Nothing . Faith Evans works with DMX on I Miss You , and Mashonda is featured on You Could Be Blind . The rappers Big Stan, DJ Kayslay , Jinx da Juvy, Kashmir, Loose, Drag-On , Mysonne and Mic Geronimo also have guest contributions on the hidden tracks .

Track list

#	title	Guest musician	producer	length
1	Sometimes		DMX	1:06
2	School Street		Lady Grease	3:01
3	Who We Be		Black Key	4:47
4th	Trina Moe		Lady Grease	4:02
5	We Right Here		Black Key	4:27
6th	Bloodline Anthem	slide	DMX, Kidd Kold	4:25
7th	Shorty Was Da Bomb		Lady Grease	5:12
8th	Damien III		PK	3:21
9	When I'm Nothing	Stephanie Mills	DMX, Lady Grease	4:33
10	I miss you	Faith Evans	Kidd Kold	4:40
11	Number 11		PK	4:25
12	Pull Up (Skit)		DMX	0:20
13	I'ma bang		Just Blaze	5:03
14th	Pull Out (Skit)		DMX	0:24
15th	You could be blind	Mashonda	Swizz Beatz	4:34
16	The Prayer IV		DMX	1:42
17th	A Minute for Your Son + Hidden Tracks	Big Stan, DJ Kayslay , Jinx da Juvy, Kashmir, Loose, Drag-On , Mysonne , Mic Geronimo	Swizz Beatz	16:55

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

The Great Depression   DE 10 05/11/2001 (14 weeks)   CH 60 04/11/2001 (7 weeks)   UK 20th 11/03/2001 (4 weeks)   US 1 11/10/2001 (27 weeks)

Singles

Who We Be   US 60 10/13/2001 (12 weeks) Who We Be / We Right Here   DE 62 11/26/2001 (9 weeks)   UK 34 12/15/2001 (4 weeks) I miss you   DE 87 05/27/2002 (5 weeks)   US 86 02/02/2002 (7 weeks)

Chart successes and singles

The Great Depression entered the German charts at number 10 on November 5, 2001 and was at number 21 and 19 in the following weeks. The album stayed in the top 100 for 14 weeks. In the United States, the album rose to number 1 entered the charts and stayed in the top 200 for 27 weeks.

As singles , the songs were We Right Here , Who We Be , and I Miss You decoupled. In Europe, Who We Be and We Right Here appeared as double A-sides and reached number 62 in the German charts.

Sales figures and awards

The Great Depression went platinum in the United States for over 1.8 million units sold in the year of its release . In the UK, the album received a gold record for more than 100,000 sales in 2013 .

reception

Professional reviews
Average rating
source	rating
Metacritic	62%
More reviews
source	rating
laut.de
Rolling Stone
allmusic
RapReviews

Pascal Jürgens from laut.de rated The Great Depression with four out of a possible five points. He says that the tracks sound “all smoother, more uniform and a bit more harmless” than on the previous albums, but still “unleash hell”. The songs Trina Moe , We Right Here , Bloodline Anthem and You Could Be Blind were particularly positively highlighted and the guest contribution by Mashonda was also praised.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ album cover
2. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
3. ↑ Chart tracking The Great Depression on officialcharts.de
4. ↑ US sales The Great Depression
5. ↑ US: Platinum
6. ↑ UK: Gold
7. ↑ Rating: metacritic.com
8. ↑ Rating: laut.de
9. ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone ( Memento of October 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Rating: allmusic.com
11. ↑ Review: RapReviews.com