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Aug. 20, 2002: In 1999, Pusha-T and Malice a.ok.a. Clipse have been primed to launch their debut album, Exclusive Audio Footage, on Elektra Records. Their debut single, “The Funeral,” featured manufacturing by the purple-sizzling manufacturing workforce, the Neptunes, and the group appeared like one in all rap’s cannot-miss prospects. Unfortunately, the one flopped commercially and their album was shelved indefinitely. Subsequently, Pusha and Malice have been launched from their contract shortly after.
A couple of years later, the Neptunes had opened up their new imprint, Star Trak Entertainment, with Arista Records and one in all their first signings was Clipse, the rap duo that they had labored with a number of years prior on their debut. After returning to the studio, the outcome was Lord Willin’, a coke rap basic, which was launched on today in 2002.
Lord Willin’ was a minimalist, area-aged basic of the burgeoning coke rap style–a style devoted to the lives of the gritty and generally glamorized lives of drug sellers. Powered by the Neptunes’ icy manufacturing and Clipse’s tales of contemporary road noir, Lord Willin’ would turn into their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. A mature however usually ruthless assortment, the rap tandem handled the themes of guilt, generational dysfunction and the over-glamorization of drug dealing together with bringing an album crammed with songs for each the golf equipment and the streets.
Clipse would achieved business success with Lord Willin’. The LP produced basic tracks comparable to “Virginia,” “When the Last Time,” “Cot Damn” and the immediately iconic track “Grindin.'” Shockingly, the mission has solely reached gold standing, in line with the Recording Industry Association of America.
After dropping two extra critically-acclaimed albums, the group disbanded. Pusha T went on to pursue a solo profession and dubbed himself “Cocaine’s Dr. Seuss,” whereas Malice reinvented himself as No Malice and commenced selling a non-secular agenda in hip-hop.
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