Another Level (Blackstreet album)

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Another Level
Studio album by Blackstreet
Released September 9, 1996
Recorded 1996
Genre R&B, Hip hop, Soul
Length 70:22
Label Interscope
Producer Teddy Riley (exec.), Chauncey Hannibal
Blackstreet chronology
Blackstreet
(1994)
Another Level
(1996)
Finally
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars[1]

Another Level is the second album by American R&B group Blackstreet. Released in 1996, it reached #3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for five weeks and has sold over 4 million copies.[2] It contained the group's biggest hit to date, the Billboard Hot 100 #1 single "No Diggity".

This was the first album with new members Eric Williams and Mark Middleton.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

No. Title Producer(s), *Co-producer Length
1. "Black & Street Intro"   Teddy Riley 1:14
2. "This Is How We Roll"   Teddy Riley, Frank "Nitty" Pimentel 3:31
3. "No Diggity" (featuring Dr. Dre and Queen Pen) Teddy Riley, William "Skylz" Stewart 5:03
4. "Fix" (contains a portion of "The Message") Teddy Riley, Chauncey Hannibal* 4:04
5. "Good Lovin'" (contains portions of "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud" performed by James Brown) Teddy Riley, Chauncey Hannibal* 4:31
6. "Let's Stay in Love"   Teddy Riley, Chauncey Hannibal* 4:15
7. "We Gonna Take You Back (Lude)/Don't Leave Me" ("Don't Leave Me" contains a sample from "A Dream" performed by DeBarge) Teddy Riley, Bink* 5:17
8. "Never Gonna Let You Go"   Teddy Riley, Chauncey Hannibal* 5:00
9. "I Wanna Be Your Man" (contains portions of "Float On") Teddy Riley, Sprague Williams* 4:05
10. "Taja's Lude (Interlude)"   Teddy Riley 0:27
11. "My Paradise (Interlude)"   Teddy Riley 2:11
12. "Deja's Poem"   Teddy Riley 0:24
13. "Money Can't (Buy Me Love)"   Teddy Riley, Chauncey Hannibal* 3:30
14. "Blackstreet (On the Radio)(Feat. Morris Baxter)"     3:18
15. "I Can't Get You (Out of My Mind)"   Teddy Riley, Eric Williams, Wesley Hoggs 4:50
16. "I'll Give It to You"   Teddy Riley, Xavier Hargrove* 4:16
17. "Happy Song (Tonite)"   Teddy Riley, Tommy Sims* 5:38
18. "Motherlude"   Teddy Riley 4:35
19. "Lord Is Real (Time Will Reveal)" (a cover version of "Time Will Reveal" by DeBarge) Teddy Riley, Bunny DeBarge, El DeBarge 4:13

[edit] Album personnel

  • Dr. Dre
  • Queen Pen
  • Beverly Crowder
  • Karen Anderson
  • Shaquanna Elam
  • Darryl Adams
  • ELAN
  • Slash (Guitar on Fix)
  • Lamenga Ford (Kafi)
  • Shannon Cooper
  • Deja
  • Taja (vocals)
  • William Stewart
  • Sprague Williams
  • Serban Ghenea
  • Eric Williams
  • Wesley Hoggs
  • Tommy Sims (various instruments)
  • Frank "Nitty" Pimental
  • Roosevelt Harrell (programming).

[edit] Charts

Chart (1996-1997) Peak
position
Belgium Albums Chart 48
Canada Albums Chart 14
China Albums Chart 19
German Albums Chart 47
French Albums Chart [3] 39
Netherlands Albums Chart 20
New Zealand Albums Chart [3] 32
Swedish Albums Chart [3] 44
UK Albums Chart 26
U.S. Billboard 200 3
U.S. Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums 1

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