Good Side, Bad Side (Crucial Conflict album)

Good Side Bad Side
Studio album by Crucial Conflict
Released	November 3rd, 1998
Studio	The Barn (Chicago) CRC (Chicago) Neighborhood Watch (Chicago)
Genre	Hip hop gangsta rap
Label	Pallas Records Raw Dope Productions Universal
Producer	Shorty Capone (exec.) Roy Cormier (exec.) Fab 5 Freddy (exec.) Torino Norris (exec.) Wildstyle R. Kelly
Crucial Conflict chronology
The Final Tic (1996) Good Side Bad Side (1998) Planet Crucon (2008)
Singles from Good Side Bad Side
"Scummy" Released: 1998

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Source	[2]

Good Side Bad Side is the second album by the Chicago hip hop group Crucial Conflict. ^{[3] [4]} It was released on November 3, 1998, through Pallas Records, Raw Dope Productions and Universal Records. Recording sessions took place at the Barn, Chicago Recording Company and Neighbourhood Watch Studios in Chicago. It features a couple of diss tracks towards Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and guest appearances from Tear Da Club Up Thugs, Do Or Die and R. Kelly.

The album peaked at number 38 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and at number 10 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in the United States.

Critical reception

The Chicago Tribune thought that "producer-rapper Wild Style's mesmerizing musical compositions may be the group's strongest asset ... Dubbed the 'Rodeo' style, the work of the Windy City beatsmith contains insistent keyboard, twangy guitar and dynamic drum patterns that explode from the speakers." ^[5] The Chicago Reader wrote that "the relentlessly hysterical, nasal speed-rapping turns the 75-minute CD into a suffocating sonic beatdown." ^[6]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Intro"	2:00
2.	"The Bidness"	4:09
3.	"Scummy"	4:28
4.	"Roll Somethin"	4:18
5.	"2 Bogus" (featuring Tear Da Club Up Thugs)	4:18
6.	"Let It Go"	3:40
7.	"Like This"	4:23
8.	"Young Guns"	4:53
9.	"Universal Love"	4:11
10.	"Faceless Ones"	3:58
11.	"Swing It over Here"	4:17
12.	"Airplane" (featuring Do Or Die)	4:51
13.	"Pump It Up"	3:34
14.	"Back Against the Wall (Bone Thugs Diss)"	5:20
15.	"Come On"	3:40
16.	"I'm Bout to Explode"	5:02
17.	"Ghetto Queen" (featuring R. Kelly)	4:19
18.	"Raw Dope Anthem"	4:24

Personnel

Crucial Conflict Corey "Coldhard" Johnson – main artist, vocals Wondosas "Kilo" Martin – main artist, vocals Marrico "Never" King – main artist, vocals Ralph "Wildstyle" Leverston – main artist, producer (tracks: 1–16, 18), mixing (tracks: 1–12, 14–18), engineering (tracks: 6, 12), assistant engineering (track 14), mastering (tracks: 1–4, 6–11, 13, 15–18) Additional vocalists Paul Duane Beauregard – vocals (track 5) Jordan Michael Houston – vocals (track 5) Ricky Dunigan – vocals (track 5) Darnell Smith – vocals (track 12) Dennis Round – vocals (track 12) Anthony Round – vocals (track 12) Robert Sylvester Kelly – vocals & producer (track 17) T-Babe – vocals (tracks: 1, 7, 9, 13) Clyde – vocals (track 1) PMP – vocals (track 15) BHlunt – vocals (track 16)

Technical QBall – scratches (track 4), mixing (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6–10, 14–16, 18), assistant engineering (track 6) Frankie – guitar (track 11) Chris Steinmetz – engineering (tracks: 1, 7–9, 11, 15–18) Tom Carlyle – engineering (tracks: 2, 4, 10) Jeff Lang – engineering (tracks: 3, 5, 12–14) Fred Hahn – assistant engineering (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 15–18) Bill Douglass – assistant engineering (tracks: 5, 12–14) Jason B. – assistant engineering (tracks: 9, 11) Matt Judah – assistant engineering (tracks: 17, 18) Blake C – assistant engineering (track 9) Dennis Ferrante – mastering (tracks: 1–4, 6–11, 13, 15–18) Sean Sutton – mastering (tracks: 5, 12, 14) Fred Brathwaite – executive producer, art direction Roy "Black Prince" Cormier – executive producer Torino "Neno Blade" Norris – executive producer Shorty Capone – executive producer Eric Russ – art direction Daniel Hastings – photography

Chart history

Chart (1998)	Peak position
US Billboard 200 [7]	38
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) [8]	10

References

1. Gallucci, Michael. "Good Side, Bad Side - Crucial Conflict | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved November 5, 2018.
2. Alvarez, Gabriel (December 1998). "Record Report: Crucial Conflict – Good Side, Bad Side". The Source . No. 111. New York. pp. 206, 208.
3. "Crucial Conflict Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
4. "Crucial Conflict Rally Around Windy City For New Album". MTV News. Archived from the original on November 11, 2016.
5. Baker, Soren. "Crucial Conflict Good Side Bad Side (Pallas/Universal)". chicagotribune.com.
6. Margasak, Peter (December 17, 1998). "Jay-Z/ Big Punisher/ Noreaga/ Crucial Conflict". Chicago Reader.
7. "Crucial Conflict Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
8. "Crucial Conflict Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 5, 2018.

External links

• Good Side Bad Side at Discogs (list of releases)
• Good Side Bad Side by Crucial Conflict on iTunes