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Released
  
February 9, 1999

Focused Daily (1999)
  
Odds & Evens (2003)

Release date
  
9 February 1999

Genre
  
Hip hop music

Length
  
68:48

Artist
  
Defari

Label
  
Tommy Boy Entertainment


Recorded
  
1997 Soundcastle Studios, E-Swift's Studio's, A&M Studios, Red Foo's Los Angeles, California Threshold Studios Santa Monica, California

Producers
  
The Alchemist, Evidence, Defari

Similar
  
Odds & Evens, Street Music, When This Is Over, The Old Prince, Ruff Rhymes: Greatest

Focused Daily, is the debut album by west coast rapper Defari, was released in February 9, 1999. The album is now out of print.

Contents

Personnel

  • Kut Masta Kurt, E-Swift, The Alchemist, DJ Babu - scratches
  • Jesse "Biz" Stewart, Redfoo, Kut Masta Kurt, Evidence, E-Swift, Jean Marie - engineers
  • Defari, Chris Atlas - executive producers
  • Beni-B - co-executive producer
  • Mike Miller - photography
  • Darlene Y. Cordero - art direction, design
  • Alan 'The Alchemist' Maman, Michael 'Evidence' Peretta, Defari, E-Swift, Barbershop Drevin - Producers
  • Samples

  • "405 Friday's"
  • "Tear It Down" by Blue Magic
  • "Focused Daily"
  • "Oh! Que Sole Estoy" by Betty Missiego
  • "Mostly Tha Voice" by Gang Starr
  • "Bionic"
  • "Children's Song: No. 6" by Chick Corea & Gary Burton
  • "Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber" by Wu-Tang Clan
  • "Checkstand 3"
  • "The Road We Didn't Take" by Freda Payne
  • "Lowlands Anthem, Pt. 1"
  • "Edith and the Kingpin" by Joni Mitchell
  • "People's Choice"
  • "Got to Hustle to Survive" by Les McCann
  • "The MC" by KRS-One
  • "Yes Indeed"
  • "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" by Eric Gale
  • "Never Lose Touch"
  • "Dark Eyes" by Ferrante & Teicher
  • "The Robbery and the Chase" by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
  • "Gems"
  • "Crying Song" by Hubert Laws
  • "Funky President" by James Brown
  • "Keep It on the Rise"
  • "Hole in the Head "by Cypress Hill
  • "Thunder & Lightning"
  • "Mental Stamina" by Jeru the Damaja
  • Songs

    1Intro0:48
    2Focused Daily4:31
    3Never Lose Touch4:25

    References

    Focused Daily Wikipedia