On Anotha Level

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On Anotha Level
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Studio album by
Anotha Level
ReleasedApril 26, 1994
Recorded1993-1994
Studio
Genre West Coast hip hop
Length50:59
Label Priority
Producer
Singles from On Anotha Level
  1. "What's That Cha Say"
    Released: 1994
  2. "Don't Stimulate"
    Released: 1994
Professional ratings
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On Anotha Level is the only studio album by American West Coast hip hop group Anotha Level. It was released on April 26, 1994 through Priority Records.

West Coast hip hop is a regional genre of hip hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originate in the West Coast region of the United States. The gangsta rap subgenre of West Coast hip hop began to dominate from a radio play and sales standpoint during the early to-mid 1990s with the birth of G-funk and the emergence of record labels such as Suge Knight and Dr. Dre's Death Row Records, Ice Cube's Lench Mob Records and the continued success of Eazy-E's Ruthless Records and others.

Anotha Level was an American West Coast hip hop group composed of five members: Bambino, Ced Twice, Stenge, Stix and Stones.

Priority Records is an American distribution company and record label known for artists including N.W.A, Ice-T, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Silkk the Shocker and Westside Connection. It also distributed hip hop record labels including Death Row Records, Hoo-Bangin' Records, No Limit Records, Posthuman Records, Rap-A-Lot Records, Rawkus Records, Roc-A-Fella Records, Ruthless Records and Wu-Tang Records. According to Billboard, "few record labels were as important to the rise of West Coast hip hop as Priority Records."

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Background

Anotha Level was composed of five members: Bambino, Ced Twice, Stenge, Stix and Stones. The group was discovered by Ice Cube, who then got the group a deal with his label Priority Records. The album was executive produced by Ice Cube and Laylaw, with actual production handled by Laylaw, D-Maq and group members Stix and Stones. In addition, Ice Cube was featured on the track "Level-N-Service" and The Pharcyde was featured on "Phat-T".

Ice Cube American actor, producer and actor from California

O'Shea Jackson, known professionally as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, actor, producer, director and writer.

The Pharcyde band that plays West Coast hip hop

The Pharcyde is an American alternative hip hop group, formed in 1989, from South Central Los Angeles. The original four members of the group are Imani, Slimkid3, Bootie Brown, and Fatlip. DJ Mark Luv was the group's first disc jockey (DJ), followed by producer J-Swift and then J Dilla. The group is perhaps best known for the hit singles "Drop", "Passin' Me By" and "Runnin'", as well as their first album, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde (1992). The group continues to tour and record, both collaboratively and in solo projects—the most recent being Hardson's collaborative EP with the award-winning DJ Nu-Mark released in 2014 on Delicious Vinyl.

Despite the involvement from Ice Cube, the album was not a commercial success. It peaked at No. 60 on the U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums on May 28, 1994 and stayed on the chart for nine weeks. It also made it to No. 17 on the Heatseekers Albums chart. The group disbanded later in the year after making their final appearance on the Street Fighter soundtrack.

<i>Billboard</i> (magazine) American music magazine

Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style, and is also known for its music charts, including the Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular songs and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows.

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999. The chart debuted in the magazine as Hot R&B LPs in 1965, and were also called Top Black Albums; from 1969-1978 they were identified as Soul charts. The US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums tracks the albums of quiet storm, urban contemporary, soul music, R&B, new jack swing, hip hop, and sometimes house music artists.

<i>Street Fighter</i> (soundtrack) 1994 soundtrack album by Various artists

Street Fighter is the soundtrack to Steven E. de Souza 1994 action film Street Fighter. It was released on December 6, 1994 by Priority Records and consists primarily of hip hop music, featuring several notable artists from the genre, such as Ice Cube, MC Hammer, Nas, etc. The soundtrack found some success on the Billboard charts, peaking at #135 on the Billboard 200 and #34 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and featured one charting single "Something Kinda Funky" by Rally Ral, which made it to #39 on the Hot Rap Singles. "Straight to My Feet" was the only single to see a release in the United Kingdom, where it charted #57, despite the soundtrack being only available in that country via a purchase of the VHS tape at branches of Tesco for a limited period.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Level Lounge"1:24
2."Let Me Take Ya"4:29
3."Just Feelin'"4:30
4."Don't Stimulate"4:01
5."Stimulating"0:24
6."A Question to Ask"3:36
7."Don't Fight It"3:57
8."What's That Cha Say"4:15
9."Swingaz"1:03
10."Caught You Swingin'"2:54
11."On Deck"4:00
12."Level-N-Service" (featuring Ice Cube)4:48
13."Fo Sho Shot"3:44
14."Late"2:55
15."Phat-T" (featuring The Pharcyde)4:59
Total length:50:59

Notes

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1994)Peak
position
scope="row"US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) [2] 60
scope="row"US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [3] 17

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References

  1. ↑ "On Anotha Level – Anotha Level". AllMusic . Retrieved April 15, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Anotha Level Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard.
  3. ↑ "Anotha Level Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard.

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