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When Def Jam signed Ludacris in 2000, the Atlanta rapper had already released a regionally successful independent album Incognegro with a hot single "What's Your Fantasy". So rather than send Ludacris back into the studio to record a follow-up album, Def Jam chose to repackage Incognegro as Back for the First Time the title a play on the re-released nature of the music and append some new material. The decision proved wise. Incognegro had been a strong album debut, produced largely by talented newcomer Shondrae, along with Organized Noize who produce "Game Got Switched" and Jermaine Dupri "Get Off Me", and featuring a roster of hungry underground rappers I-20, Fat Wilson, Shawnna, Pastor Troy, 4-Ize. Plus, "What's Your Fantasy" was already a proven hit, if perhaps too explicit for mainstream radio play. The real difference between Incognegro and Back for the First Time, however, is the newly recorded material -- four songs, each a standout: the Neptunes-produced club-banger "Southern Hospitality," the previously released Timbaland-produced "Phat Rabbit," the rowdy U.G.K.-featuring "Stick 'Em Up," and the provocative Trina and Foxy Brown remix of "What's Your Fantasy." The most significant of these additions is "Southern Hospitality," a feel-good party song that -- sequenced late in the album, at track 14 -- comes as a pleasant relief after the proceeding up-from-the-underground hardcore tone of Incognegro/Back for the First Time.
Condition: NEW Sealed
TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
1 U Got a Problem? (4:55)
2 Game Got Switched - Infamous 2-0 (4:09)
3 1st & 10 - Fate Wilson (3:43)
4 What's Your Fantasy - Shawnna (4:35)
5 Come on Over (Skit) (1:03)
6 Hood Stuck (4:21)
7 Get off Me (2:45)
8 Mouthing Off - 4-Ize (3:01)
9 Stick 'Em Up (5:05)
10 Ho (Skit) (0:42)
11 Ho (2:50)
12 Tickets Sold Out (Skit) (0:32)
13 Catch Up - Fate Wilson (4:14)
14 Southern Hospitality (5:00)
15 What's Your Fantasy - Shawnna (4:37)
16 Phat Rabbit (4:58)
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