To All My Friends, Blood Makes the Blade Holy: The Atmosphere EP's

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To All My Friends, Blood Makes the Blade Holy: The Atmosphere EP's
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ReleasedSeptember 7, 2010 (2010-09-07)
Genre Hip hop
Length40:45
Label Rhymesayers Entertainment
Producer Atmosphere
Atmosphere chronology
Leak at Will
(2009)
To All My Friends, Blood Makes the Blade Holy: The Atmosphere EP's
(2010)
The Family Sign
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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HipHopDX 4.0/5 [2]
Pitchfork Media 7.3/10 [3]

To All My Friends, Blood Makes the Blade Holy: The Atmosphere EP's is a double EP by American hip hop group Atmosphere. It was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment on September 7, 2010. [4]

Contents

Commercial performance

It debuted at number 38 on the Billboard 200 selling 9,400 copies in its first week. [5]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Until the Nipple's Gone"4:20
2."The Major Leagues"3:21
3."Scalp"3:24
4."The Best Day"3:37
5."Americareful"3:18
6."Hope"1:56
7."The Loser Wins"3:36
8."Shotgun"4:10
9."Commodities"2:42
10."The Number None"3:01
11."Freefallin'"4:10
12."To All My Friends"3:17
Total length:40:52

Charts

ChartPeak
position
Billboard 200 [6] 38
Independent Albums [7] 5
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums [8] 9
Rap Albums [9] 4
Digital Albums [10] 9

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