Tha Mexakinz (album)

Tha Mexakinz
Studio album by Tha Mexakinz
Released	August 13, 1996 (1996-08-13)
Studio	Kitchen Sync Studios (Hollywood, CA) Fluid Recording Studio
Genre	Latin hip hop hardcore hip hop
Length	1:00:58
Label	Wild West Records
Producer	Bird Sinful Thayod
Tha Mexakinz chronology
Zig Zag (1994) Tha Mexakinz (1996) Crossing All Borders (1998)

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Tha Mexakinz is the second full-length studio album by American Latin hip hop duo Tha Mexakinz. It was released on August 13, 1996, through Wild West Records. Recording sessions took place at Kitchen Sync Studios in Hollywood and at Fluid Recording Studio. Production was handled by member Sinful, as well as Thayod Ausar and Bird, with Morris Taft serving as executive producer. It features guest appearances from Chino XL, Supherb, Xzibit, K.Y.M., Danjah, Detriment, Rom, Moziz and Frost.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Introlude"	Rudy Archuleta Eric Banks	Thayod Ausar	1:17
2.	"U Don't Even Know Me"	Archuleta Banks	Thayod Ausar	4:05
3.	"Never in This World"	Archuleta Rodrigo Navarro	Sinful	4:37
4.	"Plead Insanity"	Archuleta Navarro Banks	Thayod Ausar	4:00
5.	"Problems" (featuring K.Y.M.)	Navarro	Sinful	5:05
6.	"La Plaga"	Navarro	Sinful	3:38
7.	"2 Many MC's"	Archuleta Navarro	Sinful	3:22
8.	"Confessions" (featuring K.Y.M.)	Archuleta Navarro	Sinful	5:10
9.	"Frost Interlude"	Navarro Arturo Mollina Jr.	Sinful	1:17
10.	"Instinct"	Archuleta Banks	Thayod Ausar I-Man (co.)	4:36
11.	"Provoke the Extreme" (featuring Supherb and Chino XL)	Archuleta Jay Anderson Derek Barbosa Banks	Thayod Ausar	4:11
12.	"Burnin' Hot"	Archuleta Navarro Lamont Holbdy	Bird	4:25
13.	"Realism"	Archuleta Navarro	Sinful	3:47
14.	"Headz or Taylz" (featuring Danjah, Detriment, Rom and Moziz)	Navarro F. Richardson R. Henderson L. Brown C.E. McDonald	Sinful Abstruse (co.)	4:49
15.	"The Wake Up Show" (featuring Xzibit and Chino XL)	Archuleta Navarro Alvin Joiner Barbosa	Sinful	3:38
16.	"2 Many MC's" (Remix)	Archuleta Navarro Morris Taft	Morris Taft
17.	"Burnin Hot Remix"	Archuleta Navarro Holbdy	Click Tha Supah Latin
Total length:				1:00:58

Personnel

• Rudy "I-Man" Archuleta – vocals, co-producer (track 10), mixing (tracks: 1-4, 8-10, ), arranger (tracks: 3, 8, 10, 11), programming (track 11)
• Rodrigo "Sinful" Navarro – vocals, scratches, producer (tracks: 3, 5-9, 13-15), mixing (tracks: 3, 5, 6, 8, 13), arranger & programming (tracks: 3, 5-8, 13), keyboards (track 6)
• K.Y.M. – chorus vocals (tracks: 5, 8)
• Derek "Chino XL" Barbosa – rap vocals (tracks: 11, 15)
• Jay "Supherb" Anderson – rap vocals (track 11)
• Danjah – vocals (track 14)
• Detriment – vocals (track 14)
• Moziz – vocals (track 14)
• Rom – vocals (track 14)
• Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner – rap vocals (track 15)
• Del Atkins – keyboards & bass (tracks: 5, 8)
• Mark "DJ Nu-Mark" Potsic – scratches (track 12)
• Malcolm French – guitar (track 16)
• Nick Steinberg – bass (track 16)
• Eric "Thayad" Banks – producer (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 10, 11), arranger & programming (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 10, 11), mixing (tracks: 2, 4, 10)
• Lamont "Bird" Holbdy – producer (track 12)
• Abstruse – co-producer (track 14)
• Morris Taft – producer (track 16), executive producer, A&R
• Anthony "Click Tha Supah Latin" Rivera – producer & mixing (track 17)
• Sean Freehill – mixing (tracks: 1, 4, 9)
• Dennis Grubbs – art direction
• Chris Dubrowsky – photography

External links

• Tha Mexakinz at Discogs (list of releases)