Flamboyant (Big L song)

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"Flamboyant"
Single by Big L
from the album The Big Picture
B-side "On the Mic"
ReleasedMay 30, 2000
Recorded1998–1999
Studio C Mo' Greens Studio (Queens, New York) [1] [2]
Genre Hip hop [1]
Length3:07 (album version)
3:11 (single version)
Label Rawkus, Flamboyant, Priority
Songwriter(s) Lamont Coleman
Dee Ervin
Mike Heron
Wes Farrell
Producer(s) Mike Heron
Big L singles chronology
"Holdin' it Down"
(2000)
"Flamboyant"
(2000)
"Deadly Combination"
(2002)

"Flamboyant" is a song by American rapper and songwriter Big L. It appears as the tenth track on his second and final studio album The Big Picture , posthumously released. It was his fifth released and first posthumous single. It topped the US Rap charts, while it peaked at number 39 on the US R&B charts.

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Release

The single topped the US Rap charts on June 24, 2000 and stayed there for three weeks, then spending 28 weeks on the charts. [3] It also spent fourteen weeks on the US R&B charts.

Track listings

  1. "Flamboyant" (Clean) – 3:11
  2. "Flamboyant" (Dirty) – 3:11
  3. "Flamboyant" (Instrumental) – 3:11
  4. "Flamboyant" (Acapella) – 3:11
  5. "On the Mic" (Clean) – 3:26
  6. "On the Mic" (Dirty) – 3:26
  7. "On the Mic" (Instrumental) – 3:26
  8. "On the Mic" (Acapella) – 3:26
  1. "Flamboyant" – 3:11
  2. "Flamboyant" (Instrumental) – 3:11
  3. "On the Mic" – 3:26
  4. "On the Mic" (Instrumental) – 3:26

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2000)Peak
position
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard ) [4] 39
US Hot Rap Songs ( Billboard ) [5] 1

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