Capital Punishment (album)

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Recorded 1997–98 Capital Punishment (1998) Yeeeah Baby (2000) Release date 28 April 1998		Length 71:53 Artist Big Pun Label Loud Records

Released April 28, 1998 (1998-04-28) Producer Various Big Pun (Also Executive) Fat Joe (Also Executive) Matt Life (Executive) Ju-Ju Rockwilder Knobody Dahoud Nomad Mike Zulu Domingo Frank Nitty Young Lord L.E.S. The Infinite Arkatechz Minnesota dead prez V.I.C. RZA Danny O & EQ Showbiz Genres Hip hop music, Latin hip hop, Gangsta rap, East Coast hip hop, Hardcore hip hop, Mafioso rap Nominations Grammy Award for Best Rap Album Similar Big Pun albums, Hip hop music albums

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Capital Punishment is the debut and only album released by rapper Big Pun during his lifetime, released on April 28, 1998. The album received critical acclaim, peaking at #5 on the Billboard 200 charts and #1 on the Top R&B Albums chart for two weeks. It was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 1999 Grammy Awards, but lost to Jay-Z's Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life. Capital Punishment is regarded as a classic because of Pun's technical efficiency and wordplay. It was also the first solo Latin hip hop record to go Platinum.

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Reception

Entertainment Weekly (7/17/98, p. 85) - "Everything about this Bronx-bred Puerto Rican rapper is generous, his 400-pound girth, his multiple rhyming within each line, and his talent for spewing out verses without stopping for breath." - Rating: B+

Q (6/00, p. 123) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Displaying huge lyrical prowess and the requisite 'sensitive' side...[the album] established Pun as a serious rival to Biggie Smalls and something of a ladykiller to boot....funk and fun aplenty....Outrageously good."

The Source (6/98, p. 159) - 4 Mics (out of 5) - "He'll rhyme every possible word in a line because he wants to be twice as nice....Capital Punishment's all about execution."

Rap Pages (9/98, p. 120) - 4 (out of 5) - "Big Pun is at his best with all barrels firing bullets lacing the air like embroidery on grandmama's quilt."

Personnel

Credits for Capital Punishment adapted from the album liner notes.

Songs

1Intro0:32
2Beware3:15
3Super LyricalBlack Thought3:28

References

Capital Punishment (album) Wikipedia

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