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The Price of Fame

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Released
  
December 19, 2006 (US)

Length
  
43:38

Artist
  
Bow Wow

Label
  
Sony Urban Music

Recorded
  
2005–2006

The Price of Fame (2006)
  
Face Off (2007)

Release date
  
19 December 2006

Genre
  
Hip hop music

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Producer
  
Bow Wow, Jermaine Dupri, Nitti, Lil Ronnie, R. Kelly

Similar
  
Bow Wow albums, Hip hop music albums

The Price of Fame is the fifth studio album by American rapper Bow Wow. It was released on December 19, 2006. The first single "Shortie Like Mine" featuring Chris Brown and Johntá Austin. The second single "Outta My System". The third single "I Don't Know About That". The fourth and final single was supposed to be "4 Corners", but was never released as a single and a video was not shot. Every track on the album is edited, although explicit versions of songs such as "Shortie Like Mine", "4 Corners", and "I Don't Know About That" were recorded.

Contents

The album debuted at number six on the US Billboard 200 chart, with 262,001 copies sold in the first-week of sales. A month later the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with an excess of 500,000 copies. Producers and guest appearances are featured on the album, including Jermaine Dupri, Chris Brown, Johntá Austin, Young Jinsu, The late Pimp C, T-Pain, Lil Scrappy, Short Dawg, Khleo Thomas, Young Capone, R. Kelly, Nitty, Lil Ronnie, among others.

Track listing

  • (*) Denotes co-producer.
    • Notes
  • Track 2, "Price of Fame", featuring uncredited vocals by Young Jinsu.
  • Track 5, "How You Move It", featuring uncredited vocals by Da Brat.
    • Sample credits
  • "4 Corners", contains excepts from "Big Pimpin'" as performed by Jay-Z featuring UGK, and written by Shawn Carter, Chad Butler, Bernard Freeman, Timothy Mosley and Kyambo Joshua.
  • "Outta My System" (feat. Johntá Austin and T-Pain), samples of "Hollywood" as performed by Rick James, and written by James Johnson, Jr.
  • "How You Move It", contains interpolations from the composition "Disco Inferno as performed by 50 Cent, and written by Curtis Jackson, Teraike Crawford and Phillip Pitts.
  • "Tell Me", contains interpolations from the composition "When Will I See You Smile Again?" by Bell Biv DeVoe, and written by Timmy Gatling and Alton "Wokie" Stewart.

    • Bonus track

    The album was released with the bonus track "I'm a Flirt" (featuring R. Kelly). This was due to be the album's second single, but it was changed to "Outta My System". The remix to "I'm A Flirt", with T.I. and T-Pain, is on R. Kelly's 2007 album Double Up and does not include Bow Wow. On downloadable music sites and YouTube, Bow Wow's verse was added to the beginning of the remix and is credited as Bow Wow & R. Kelly featuring T.I. and T-Pain.

    Songs

    1Intro0:21
    2Price of Fame2:39
    34 CornersLil Wayne - Pimp C - Lil Scrappy - 5:29

    References

    The Price of Fame Wikipedia
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