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Released
  
August 17, 1999 (US)

Murda Muzik (1999)
  
Infamy (2001)

Release date
  
17 August 1999

Recorded
  
1998-1999

Artist
  
Mobb Deep

Label
  
Loud Records

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Producer
  
Buddah Epitome Havoc Jonathan Williams Shamello T-Mix The Alchemist

Genres
  
Hip hop music, Gangsta rap, Hardcore hip hop, East Coast hip hop

Similar
  
Mobb Deep albums, Hip hop music albums

Murda Muzik is the fourth studio album by the American hip hop duo Mobb Deep, which was released on August 17, 1999. It features one of the group's best-known and most acclaimed songs, "Quiet Storm." It is also the duo's most commercially successful album to date, for shipping over 1 million copies in the United States and was certified Platinum by the RIAA on October 26, 1999, debuting at #3 on the Billboard 200 charts. Murda Muzik also garnered positive reviews from The Source and Allmusic, among others. A censored version of the album, titled Mobb Muzik, was released simultaneously.

Contents

Background

The release of Murda Muzik was originally planned for the beginning of 1999. But Loud Records switched distributors from RCA to Colombia. Murda Muzik was shelved until this deal was finalized. Within this time the album got bootlegged and Mobb Deep had to record new songs to make sure fans would still buy the album. The duo recorded 5 new songs:

  • Spread Love
  • I'm Going Out (featuring Lil' Cease)
  • Can't Fuck Wit (featuring Raekwon)
  • It's Mine (featuring Nas)
  • Quiet Storm (Remix) (featuring Lil' Kim)

    • These songs replaced earlier recorded tracks.

    Bootleg tracks

    Murda Muzik got leaked in the beginning of 1999. The following tracks appeared on multiple bootlegs that didn't make the final release in August 17, 1999:

    Full tracks:

  • Feel My Gat Blow
  • Thrill Me (featuring Big Noyd)
  • 3 The Hard Way (featuring Big Noyd) = also called “You Fuckin’ Wit” and “3 From NYC”
  • This One (featuring Big Noyd) = also called “Pyramid Points.”
  • Perfect Plot (featuring Big Noyd) = also called “Mobb Coming Thru” and “We Got The Drop”
  • Pile Raps = also called Power Rap
  • Nobody Likes Me
  • Shiesty (featuring Big Noyd) = also called “Fuck That Bitch”
  • QB Meets Southside" (featuring Sticky Fingaz and X-1)

    • Remixes of retail tracks:

  • Deer Park ft. Cormega (What’s Ya Poison with intro) = also called “ How You Want It”
  • Hoe Gonna Be a Hoe with intro
  • Streets Raised Me (OG Mix) = different sounding hook. There supposedly is also a version where children are singing the hook.
  • Street Kingz (featuring Nas) = U.S.A. (Aiight Then) with a Nas verse. Colombia didn’t want to clear Nas for two songs. They had to cut his verse from U.S.A. (Aiight then) since he also appears on the It’s Mine song.
  • White Lines (Quiet Storm without Havoc on the hook)

    • Samples

    Intro

  • "Crime Inc. Theme" by Giles Swayne
  • contains an excerpt from a speech of Ronald Reagan

    • Adrenaline

  • "Ballad Of The Decomposing Man" by Steve Hackett

    • Where Ya Heart At

  • "Fear" by Sade

    • It's Mine

  • "The Boy Is Mine" by Brandy & Monica
  • "Scarface Cues" by Giorgio Moroder

    • Quiet Storm

  • "White Lines (Don't Do It)" by Grandmaster Melle Mel
  • "A Quiet Storm" by Smokey Robinson

    • The Realest

  • "Born to Lose" by Ecstasy, Passion & Pain

    • I'm Going Out

  • "Farewell" by Miklos Rozsa

    • Thug Muzik

  • "Japanese Music Box (Ituski No Komoriuta)" by George Winston

    • What's Ya Poison

  • "1000 Rads" by David Axelrod

    • Where Ya From

  • "The Champ" by The Mohawks

    • Quiet Storm (Remix)

  • "10% Dis" by MC Lyte

    • Songs

    1Intro0:45
    2Streets Raised Me4:34
    3What's Ya Poison3:45

    References

    Murda Muzik Wikipedia
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