Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Intro
2. You Made Me - (featuring Carl Thomas/Nas)
3. Minute Man - (featuring Nauty)
4. Crew of the Year - (featuring Mase)
5. I Really Like It - (featuring Mase/Kelly Price)
6. Mamasita Interlude
7. Across the Border
8. 100 Shiesty's - (featuring Drag-On)
9. Cali Chronic
10. One Big Fiesta - (featuring Mase)
11. Meaning of Family - (featuring The Teamsters)
12. My Baby's Mother's Boyfriend's Mother (Interlude)
13. Not the Kid's - (featuring Rashad)
14. Family Crisis
15. We Both Frontin' - (featuring Jermaine Dupri)
16. Pointing Fingers
17. Change Is Gonna Come, A - (featuring Harlem Boys Choir)
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | Cardan, Carl Thomas, Drag-On, Harlem Boys Choir, Jermaine Dupri, Kelly Price, Mase, Nas, Nauty, Rashad, The Teamsters | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Harlem World: Loon, Baby Stase, Meeno, Huddy Combs, Blinky Blink, Suga J (rap vocals).
Additional personnel includes: Chad Hugo, Pharrell Williams (various instruments); LaMarquis Jefferson (bass); Mase, Nauty, Nas, Jermaine Dupri, Carl Thomas, Kelly Price, Drag'on, Rashad, The Teamsters.
The Boys Choir Of Harlem includes: William Bird (conductor); Sule Thomas (vocals).
Producers include: Puff Daddy, Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie, Trackmasterz, Neptunes, Grease.
Engineers include: Doug Wilson, Kevin Thomas, Brian Frye.
Principally recorded at The Hit Factory, New York, New York; Krosswire Studio, Atlanta, Georgia; Sweetfish Recording Studios, Argyle, New York.
Harlem World: Loon, Baby Stase, Meeno, Huddy Combs, Blinky Blink, Suga J (rap vocals).
Additional personnel includes: Mase, Nauty, Nas, Jermaine Dupri, Carl Thomas, Kelly Price, Drag'on, Rashad, The Teamsters (vocals); Chad Hugo, Pharrell Williams (various instruments); LaMarquis Jefferson (bass).
The Boys Choir Of Harlem includes: William Bird (conductor); Sule Thomas (vocals).
Producers include: Kanye West, Mase, The Neptunes, Jermaine Dupri, Tim Battle.
Engineers include: Doug Wilson, Kevin Thomas, Brian Frye.
Recorded at The Hit Factory, New York, New York; Krosswire Studio, Atlanta, Georgia; Sweetfish Recording Studios, Argyle, New York.
On their debut album, the Harlem World crew proves that its affiliation with the multi-platinum Mase is not its strongest quality. Rather, the group's strength lies in its uncommon mixture of commercial appeal, street sense, and simple personality. Consisting of six MCs, including Mase's own twin sister Baby Stase, the group addresses topics to which hip-hop listeners can easily relate.
On "Not The Kids," Loon, Huddy Combs, and Stase trade verses on the importance of parenting. "Meaning Of Family," one of the album's more hardcore-sounding songs, allows the rappers to proclaim their willingness to go "all out"--which also happens to be the name of Mase's label and their home--for each other. Other songs, such as "One Big Fiesta" and "I Really Like It," provide the dance hits to put Harlem World at the top of the charts.
| | Editorial reviews | 3.5 Mics (out of 5) - ...Mase has formed his own label...to finish laying the foundation for the Harlem Renaissance....[The] album is most entertaining when Huddy and Stase grab the mic, because of their Mase-inspired flow...
The Source (03/01/1999)
4 (out of 5) - ...The gems...represent the pinnacle of Mase's Hip-Hop creativity in concert with high-end, strong beats...
Rap Pages (04/01/1999)
...Mase has assembled a clique of rappers...and surrounded them with the best talent money can buy....The Harlem World crew prove to be more than able rhymers...
Vibe (04/01/1999)
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