No Way Out (Puff Daddy album)

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No Way Out
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Studio album by
Puff Daddy & The Family
ReleasedJuly 22, 1997
StudioDaddy's House Recording Studios (New York City)
Genre
Length77:52
Label
Producer
Puff Daddy & The Family chronology
No Way Out
(1997)		 Forever
(1999)
Singles from No Way Out
  1. "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down"
    Released: January 3, 1997
  2. "I'll Be Missing You"
    Released: May 27, 1997
  3. "It's All About the Benjamins"
    Released: August 12, 1997
  4. "Been Around the World"
    Released: November 14, 1997
  5. "Victory"
    Released: March 17, 1998

No Way Out is the debut studio album by American rapper Puff Daddy & The Family. It was released on July 22, 1997 by Arista Records and Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Entertainment. [1] The album's crediting of the Family references the guest appearances from his label-mates at Bad Boy Records.

Contents

Puff Daddy worked extensively with the Notorious B.I.G. and the Hitmen when creating the album, which saw a change in direction following the former's shooting and death a few months prior to release. This greatly affected Puff Daddy, which he expands upon on the album with a combination of aggressive and introspective lyrics, as well as with raw production to convey his varying emotional state before and after his friend’s death. Additional production was provided by Jaz-O, while the album contains features from the Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes, Mase, Lil' Kim, Carl Thomas, Jay-Z, Black Rob, the LOX, Ginuwine, Twista, Foxy Brown, Faith Evans, and 112.

No Way Out saw significant commercial success, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200, selling over 561,000 copies in its first week of sales. The album's singles also saw commercial success, namely with "I'll Be Missing You", which became a worldwide hit, and the first rap song to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" also peaked at number one, while "It's All About the Benjamins" and "Been Around the World" reached number two. The album also saw widespread critical success, with Puff Daddy being nominated for five awards at the 40th Grammy Awards, winning the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. [2] It remains Puff Daddy's best selling album, with over 7 million copies shipped in the United States, and is considered a classic hip hop album. [3]

Background

Speaking about the album's title, Puff Daddy said that because of the Notorious B.I.G.'s death on March 9, 1997, he had felt that there was 'no way out of things the way we were'. The album's lyrical content is filled with some of the emotions that he felt while mourning the loss of his close friend. In the song, titled "Is This the End?", he raps about experiencing the drive-by shooting that happened in Los Angeles, California, which took the Notorious B.I.G.'s life. The album was originally called Puff Daddy & the Goodfellas, then slated to be titled Hell Up in Harlem, but following the death of the Notorious B.I.G., he decided to switch the album's title to No Way Out. As discussed in "Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of The Notorious B.I.G." by Cheo Hodari Coker, the weight of the East Coast/West Coast rivalry and the accompanying threats had taken its toll on Combs and those around him. It was decided that they needed to get away and become focused on making hits. So, Combs brought producers Steven "Stevie J." Jordan, Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie, Nashiem Myrick and Ron Lawrence as well as engineers Axel Niehaus and Tony Maserati down to the Caribbean Sound Basin studio in Maraval, Trinidad, along with everything that they needed to craft hits. In the book, Puffy is quoted as saying, "For the next two years, I wanna have radio on lock. Call the girlfriend, wifey, or whatever, and let 'em know that you're not gonna be around for a few weeks. We're gonna get away from all this drama, put our heads together, and when we come back, we’re coming back with hits." The material would later be used on No Way Out, Life After Death and other Bad Boy albums from 1997 to 1999.

Accolades

In the United States, the album topped on the Billboard charts, with 561,000 copies sold in the first week. The album topped music charts worldwide for 24 non-consecutive weeks. In 1998, No Way Out would win the Grammy Award for the Best Rap Album. On September 7, 2000, the album was certified seven-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In 1997, among the ten songs that reached at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 list, four of them belonged to Bad Boy Records. The album spawned two Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles – "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" and "I'll Be Missing You" – and the "number 2" singles "Been Around the World" and "It's All About the Benjamins". The longest reign of the label's four hits was this single "I'll Be Missing You", which topped the charts for 11 weeks. The melody for "I'll Be Missing You" is sampled from the Police's 1983 hit "Every Breath You Take". This successful album led to Puff Daddy to be named as one of Forbes ' 40th highest-paid entertainers, along with southern hip hop rapper Master P and Oprah Winfrey.

The music video for "Been Around the World" features cameo appearances by Jennifer Lopez, playing Puff Daddy's love interest in a fictional storyline. Its positive reception led to widespread rumors of a personal relationship between the two in the media. This was later confirmed when Puff Daddy and Lopez dated for a period of time in the late 1990s. Furthermore, the music video for "Victory" was one of the most expensive videos ever made. [4] The song titled "No Way Out" performed by Puff Daddy, appeared on the soundtrack for the film Money Talks (1997), but is not included on this album.

Critical and commercial performance

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Christgau's Consumer Guide Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [6]
Entertainment Weekly C+ [7]
Pitchfork 7.8/10 [8]
RapReviews9/10 [9]
Vibe favourable [10]

Upon its release, No Way Out was a significant commercial success, particularly in the United States where it reached number one on the Billboard 200 in its first week, selling 561,000 copies. It also produced five commercially successful singles, the most successful of these being the worldwide hit "I'll Be Missing You", a tribute song aimed at The Notorious B.I.G., which became the first rap song ever to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and remained at the top of the chart for 11 consecutive weeks, whilst topping several other charts worldwide. The other four singles, the Billboard hits "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down", "It's All About the Benjamins", "Been Around the World" and "Victory", were also commercially successful, and all except the latter peaked in the top two positions of the Billboard Hot 100. On September 7, 2000, the album was certified septuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 7,000,000+ copies in the United States: [11] to date, it remains Combs' most commercially successful album.

Track listing

All tracks, with the exception of "I Got the Power", were produced by members of Bad Boy's in-house production team, the Hitmen. The tracklisting was slightly altered on the album's clean version, where it was shortened down to thirteen songs. [12]

No Way Out– digital download [13] and streaming [14]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."No Way Out (Intro)"
 Stevie J 1:22
2."Victory" (featuring the Notorious B.I.G. and Busta Rhymes)
4:56
3."Been Around the World" (featuring the Notorious B.I.G. and Mase)
  • Puff Daddy
  • D-Dot
  • Amen-Ra [a]
5:25
4."What You Gonna Do?"
  • Puff Daddy
  • Amen-Ra
  • Myrick
4:55
5."Don't Stop What You're Doing" (featuring Lil' Kim)
3:58
6."If I Should Die Tonight (Interlude)" (featuring Carl Thomas)
  • Puff Daddy
  • J-Dub [b]
2:59
7."Do You Know?"
  • Puff Daddy
  • D-Dot [c]
6:06
8."Young G's" (featuring Jay-Z and the Notorious B.I.G.)
 Rashad Smith 5:25
9."I Love You, Baby" (featuring Black Rob)
Jesse "Corparal" Wilson		4:03
10."It's All About the Benjamins" (featuring the LOX, the Notorious B.I.G., and Lil' Kim)
  • Puff Daddy
  • D-Dot
4:38
11."Pain"
  • Combs
  • Myrick
  • Puff Daddy
  • Myrick [a]
5:08
12."Is This the End?" (featuring Carl Thomas, Ginuwine, and Twista)
  • Puff Daddy
  • Stevie J [b]
4:34
13."I Got the Power" (featuring the LOX)
4:05
14."Friend" (featuring Foxy Brown)
  • Puff Daddy
  • Stevie J
6:37
15."Señorita"
  • Combs
  • Jason Graham
  • Puff Daddy
  • Yogi
4:07
16."I'll Be Missing You" (featuring Faith Evans and 112)
  • Puff Daddy
  • Stevie J
5:43
17."Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" (featuring Mase)
  • Combs
  • Betha
  • Carlos Broady
  • Myrick
  • Puff Daddy
  • 6 July
  • Myrick
3:51
18."Been Around the World (Radio Mix)" (featuring the Notorious B.I.G. and Mase)
  • Puff Daddy
  • D-Dot
  • Amen-Ra [a]
4:07
Total length:77:52

Notes

Sample credits

Personnel

Credits for No Way Out adapted from AllMusic. [15]

Charts

Certifications

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RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [46] Gold35,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria) [47] Gold25,000*
Belgium (BEA) [48] Gold25,000*
Canada (Music Canada) [49] 6× Platinum600,000^
France (SNEP) [50] Gold100,000*
Japan (RIAJ) [51] Platinum200,000^
Netherlands (NVPI) [52] Gold50,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [53] Gold7,500^
Sweden (GLF) [54] Gold40,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [55] Platinum50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [56] Gold100,000^
United States (RIAA) [57] 7× Platinum7,000,000 [3]
Summaries
Europe (IFPI) [58] Platinum1,000,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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