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| Released | May 2, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 2005–2006 | |||
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| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 59:56 | |||
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Blood Money is the seventh studio album by Mobb Deep, released on May 2, 2006. It is the group's only album on G-Unit & Interscope. It features guest appearances by G-Unit and Nyce. The album also features artists Mary J. Blige and Nate Dogg. Blood Money is the only Mobb Deep studio album to not feature Big Noyd.
Blood Money was released on May 2, 2006, [1] by G-Unit Records and Interscope. [2] It was originally scheduled for an April 11 release, but the release was postponed to finish sample clearance. [3]
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 55/100 [4] |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [5] |
| Blender | [6] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− [7] |
| Pitchfork | 4.6/10 [2] |
| PopMatters | 5/10 [1] |
| Spin | [8] |
| Stylus Magazine | D [9] |
| USA Today | [10] |
| Vibe | [11] |
| XXL | XL (4/5) [12] |
Blood Money has received generally mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 55, based on 17 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
In the United States, the album debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 selling 106,000 units in its first week of release. [13] [14] This entry at #3 on the Billboard 200 tied Mobb Deep's 4th album Murda Muzik for highest entry on the chart, with Murda Muzik entering the chart at #3 in 1999.
As of December 2006, Blood Money had sold 257,000 copies in the United States. [15] In his 2012 autobiography titled My Infamous Life, Prodigy claims the album went gold, with 500,000 copies sold. [16]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Smoke It" | 2:57 | ||
| 2. | "Put Em in Their Place" |
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| 3. | "Stole Something" (featuring Lloyd Banks) |
| Havoc | 3:57 |
| 4. | "Creep" (featuring 50 Cent) |
| Havoc | 4:01 |
| 5. | "Speaking So Freely" |
| Havoc | 3:11 |
| 6. | "Backstage Pass" (featuring 50 Cent) |
| K-Lassik Beats | 3:05 |
| 7. | "Give It to Me" (featuring Young Buck) |
| Profile | 3:08 |
| 8. | "Click Click" (featuring Tony Yayo) |
| Havoc | 4:25 |
| 9. | "Pearly Gates" (featuring 50 Cent) |
| Exile | 4:16 |
| 10. | "Capital P, Capital H" (featuring Nyce) |
| Product & Whitton | 4:15 |
| 11. | "Daydreamin'" |
| Chad Beat | 3:15 |
| 12. | "The Infamous" (featuring 50 Cent) |
| The Alchemist | 3:53 |
| 13. | "In Love with the Moula" |
| J.R. Rotem | 3:13 |
| 14. | "It's Alright" (featuring 50 Cent & Mary J. Blige) |
| Havoc | 4:25 |
| 15. | "Have a Party" (bonus track; featuring 50 Cent & Nate Dogg) |
| Fredwreck | 3:56 |
| 16. | "Outta Control (Remix)" (bonus track; featuring 50 Cent) |
| 4:07 | |
| Total length: | 59:56 | |||
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| 17. | "So Ill" |
| Ky Miller | 3:02 |
| Total length: | 3:02 | |||
The bonus track "Have a Party" originally appeared on the Get Rich or Die Tryin' soundtrack, released in 2005. The other bonus track on the album, "Outta Control Remix", also originally appeared elsewhere, appearing as a bonus track on the re-release edition of 50 Cent's The Massacre . "Outta Control Remix" was also released as a single off of The Massacre and peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100.
| Chart (2006) | Peak position |
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| Australian Albums (ARIA) [19] | 81 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [20] | 90 |
| Canadian Albums (Billboard) [21] | 6 |
| French Albums (SNEP) [22] | 37 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [23] | 38 |
| Scottish Albums (OCC) [24] | 90 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [25] | 42 |
| UK Albums (OCC) [26] | 70 |
| UK Album Downloads (OCC) [27] | 96 |
| UK R&B Albums (OCC) [28] | 6 |
| US Billboard 200 [29] | 3 |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) [30] | 1 |
| Chart (2006) | Position |
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| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums [31] | 71 |
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