Original Soundtrack - Def Jam's How to Be a Player [Clean]

Title: Def Jam's How to Be a Player [Clean] Artist: Original Soundtrack Release Date: 8/5/1997 Label: Def Jam Album Type(s): Explicit lyrics sticker, soundtrack UPCs: 731453797321, 731453797314 Genre: Rap Styles: Urban, Club/Dance, Soundtracks, Gangsta Rap, East Coast Rap, Hardcore Rap, Southern Rap, West Coast Rap, Dirty South Total Copies: 4 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Intro :: Max Julien
2. Big Bad Mamma :: Dru Hill, Foxy Brown
3. Hard to Get (Revisited) :: Rick James, Richie Rich
4. I Gotta Know :: Foxy Brown, Playa
5. Young Casanovas :: Junior M.A.F.I.A., Kam, Mace
6. Down Wit Us :: Redman
7. Usual Suspects :: Cormega, Fatal Cormega, DMX, Fatal, Jayo Felony, Mic Geronimo
8. How to Be a Playa :: Fiend, Master P, Silk, Silkk the Shocker
9. It's a Cold Day [The Funk Wit U Mix] :: George Clinton, Too $hort, Too Short, Belita Woods
10. Interlude :: Max Julien
11. Street 2 Street :: Jayo Felony
12. In the Wind :: 8Ball & MJG
13. Never Seen Before :: EPMD
14. Never Wanna Let You Go :: Absoulute
15. When the Playas Live :: Crucial Conflict
16. Troublesome :: 2Pac
17. Say What :: Dymond
18. If U Stay Ready [Remix] :: Suga Free
19. Don't Ever :: Black Azz Chill
20. Outro :: Max Julien

Year Type Label Catalog # 1997 CD Def Jam 537973

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Def Jam's How to Be a Player is an excellent collection of funky urban R&B and hip-hop that manages to keep a party groove going, even in spite of a handful of mediocre cuts. ~ Leo Stanley, All Music Guide

Name Credits 2Pac Performer 8Ball & MJG Performer Absoulute Performer Andy Little-John Assistant Engineer Ant Banks Mixing Armando Colon Producer B.J. Executive Producer Belita Woods Performer, Mixing, Vocals Big Yam Producer Bill Bellamy Executive Producer Bob Butterfield Drums Bruce Buchanan Guitar (Bass), Bass Bryan Leach Executive Producer Carl Carlton Sample Source Chonita Floyd ? Chris Habeck Mixing, Mixing Assistant Chris Lighty Executive Producer Chris Puram Engineer, Mixing CMT Engineer, Producer, Drum Programming, Arranger, Keyboards, Mixing Conley Abrams Mixing Cormega Performer Craig Mack Sample Source Crazy C Mixing Crucial Conflict Performer D'Anthony Johnson Mixing Dale Venderpool Producer Daven "Prestige" Vanderpool Producer Deion Evans Engineer Deon Evans Engineer, Mixing Derick "D Man" McElveen Producer, ? DMX Performer Dru Hill Performer E-A-Ski Engineer, Keyboards, Arranger, Producer, Drum Programming, Mixing EPMD Performer Erick Sermon Producer Fatal Performer Fiend Performer Foxy Brown Performer G-One Producer George Clinton Performer, Mixing Glen Marchese Mixing, Engineer Ian Allen Producer Ira McLaughlin Producer Irv Gotti Executive Producer, Mixing J. Nicholas Mixing Assistant, Mixing J.Z. Producer James Cruz Mastering James Earl Jones III Vocal Arrangement, Producer Jayo Felony Performer Jeffrey Walker Producer Jim Sheldon Photography Jo Jo Brim ? John Shrive Engineer Junior M.A.F.I.A. Performer Kam Performer Kerie Cooper Keyboards Kevin Liles Executive Producer Kevin Morrison Producer KLC Producer Lamar Mitchell Keyboards Lyor Cohen Executive Producer Mace Performer Marcella Andre Executive Producer, Producer Master P Performer Max Julien Performer Mic Geronimo Performer Mike Rueben Guitar MJG Performer Neal Jones Bass, Guitar Neil Jones Bass, Guitar Playa Performer Poke & Tone Producer Public Enemy Sample Source Quik Remixing, Engineer, Mixing, Producer Ralph Leverston Producer Rashad Smith Producer Redman Performer Richard Travali Mixing Richie Rich Performer Rick James Performer Rob Paustian Engineer Robert Bacon Producer Russell Elevado Mixing Russell Simmons Executive Producer Shorty B. Guitar, Bass, Producer Silk Performer Stacey Michaels Engineer Stanley Brown Producer Steve Stoute Executive Producer Suga Free Performer T-Mix Producer Tina Davis Executive Producer Tommy Uzzo Mixing, Engineer Too Short Performer, Mixing, Engineer Vaughn Wilson Producer, Keyboards Victor M. Producer Won Allen Engineer