There's One in Every Family | ||||
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Released | May 5, 1998 | |||
Recorded | 1997−1998 | |||
Genre | Southern rap, gangsta rap | |||
Length | 74:56 | |||
Label | No Limit/Priority | |||
Producer | Master P Beats By the Pound | |||
Fiend chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
Rolling Stone | [2] |
There's One in Every Family is the second studio album by the American rapper Fiend, released in 1998 on No Limit Records. [3] [4] It was produced by Master P and Beats By the Pound. Like most of the albums released by No Limit in the late 1990s, the album was a success, peaking at #8 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. It featured all of the label's top acts, including Master P, Snoop Dogg, Silkk the Shocker, Mystikal, Mia X, and C-Murder.
The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in just over a month after release. [5] The single, "Take My Pain", featuring Master P, Silkk The Shocker, and Sons of Funk, peaked at #11 on the Top Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. On August 17, 1998 There's One In Every Family was certified Platinum by the RIAA for excesses of over a million copies sold in the United States of America.
No. | Title | Producer | Length |
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1. | "Take My Pain" (featuring Master P, Silkk the Shocker & Sons of Funk) | KLC & Mo B. Dick | 4:43 |
2. | "Going Out With A Blast" | Carlos Stephens | 2:48 |
3. | "Do You Know" (featuring Master P & Mystikal) | KLC | 2:55 |
4. | "Big Timer" (featuring Mia X) | KLC | 3:03 |
5. | "Who Got The Fire" (featuring Master P & Snoop Dogg) | Craig B | 4:56 |
6. | "All I Know" | Mo B. Dick | 3:53 |
7. | "I Swore" | Carlos Stephens | 2:14 |
8. | "Only A Few" (featuring Master P, Big Ed & Silkk the Shocker) | O'Dell | 3:56 |
9. | "The Baddest" | Craig B | 3:10 |
10. | "The Streets Ain't Safe" | Craig B | 5:13 |
11. | "All In A Week" (featuring O'Dell) | O'Dell | 3:35 |
12. | "I.C.U." | 0:40 | |
13. | "On A Mission" (featuring C-Murder & Steady Mobb'n) | Mo B. Dick | 3:58 |
14. | "Slangin'" (featuring Master P & UGK) | Beats By the Pound | 4:43 |
15. | "At All Times" | Mo B. Dick | 3:50 |
16. | "Walk Like A G" (featuring Soulja Slim) | KLC | 3:44 |
17. | "We Survivors" (featuring Full Blooded) | KLC | 2:19 |
18. | "What Cha Mean" (featuring Mac, Soulja Slim & Kane & Abel) | KLC | 4:24 |
19. | "Do You Wanna Be A Rider" (featuring Gotti, Magic & Prime Suspects) | KLC | 4:04 |
20. | "For The N.O." | KLC | 2:36 |
21. | "Live Me Long" | KLC & Mo B. Dick | 4:12 |
Total length: | 74:56 |
Weekly charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA) [5] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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