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- Released in 1996 as the album’s first single, it sampled Grandmaster Flash and reinterpreted Matthew Wilder on the chorus, and was supported by another Paul Hunter video.
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No Way Out is the debut studio album by American rapper Puff Daddy. It was released on July 22, 1997, via Arista Records and Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Records. [1] The album is credited to "Puff Daddy & the Family"; the latter act refers to guest appearances from his signees at Bad Boy.
- No Way Out Won The Grammy Award For Best Rap Album in 1998
- No Way Out Was Not The Original Title of The Album
- “Young Gs” – Biggie Recorded His Verse Years Before It Was Released
- A Majority of The Production on No Way Out Was Made in The Caribbean.
- “Victory” Is One of The Most Expensive Music Videos of All-Time
- No Way Out‘s Intended Title-Track Does Not Appear on The Album
- Every Song on No Way Out Was Produced by The Hitmen, Except One
- “It’s All About The Benjamins” Originally Debuted on A Mixtape
- Styles P. Originally Had A Verse on “It’s All About The Benjamins”
- The Notorious B.I.G.’s Verses on “Victory” Were The Last He Ever Recorded
In 1998, the Grammy Awards category for Best Rap Album was loaded with pivotal releases from some of rap’s biggest acts, with Missy Elliott’s Supa Dupa Fly, Wyclef Jean’s Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival, The Notorious B.I.G.’s Life After Death, and Wu-Tang Clan’s Wu-Tang Forever all receiving nominations. Although all albums held strong cases for...
Diddy‘s debut was initially slated as Puff Daddy & The Goodfellas, an extension of the mafioso image the label had taken on during its reign. A change of heart would cause Diddy to change the tentative title to Hell Up in Harlem before settling on the title No Way Out after the death of The Notorious B.I.G.
“Young Gs” is one of three instances in which The Notorious B.I.G. appeared on tracks using original vocals, and the last of the three that the world would be blessed to hear. But in contrast to “Brooklyn’s Finest” and “I Love the Dough,” JAY-Z and Biggie didn’t work on the record together, as Biggie’s verse was recorded during a Ready to Diesessio...
At the height of the East coast versus West coast beef, Diddy decided to fly his camp of in-house producers, The Hitmen, out to Maraval, Trinidad, with the goal of creating hit records that would dominate radio for the foreseeable future. Camping out at the Caribbean Sound Basin studio, Diddy, The Hitmen, and a crew of engineers would craft the fou...
The latter half of the ’90s were dominated by groundbreaking visuals, with Missy Elliott and Busta Rhymes both upping the ante of what a rap music video could be, but in terms of breaking the bank, Puffy has them both beat. “Victory,” the fifth single released from No Way Out, would be accompanied with a big budget video, directed by Marcus Nispel,...
A week prior to the release of No Way Out, the soundtrack for the 1997 film Money Talks, starring actor/comedian Chris Tucker, hit shelves. The soundtrack boasted contributions from Mary J. Blige, Naughty By Nature, SWV, and Deborah Cox, among other notable names, but was dominated by the Bad Boy Family, with Diddy, Lil’ Kim, Ma$e, Black Rob, Faith...
Diddy’s stable of producer’s, The Hitmen, would craft the entirety of the beats on No Way Out, outside of one song on the album, which also happens to be one of the best selections on the album. That song, “Young Gs,” which featured The Notorious B.I.G. and JAY-Z, was produced by Rashad Smith, one of the top producers on the East coast, with credit...
The mixtape game during the ’90s was a game built on exclusives. DJ Clue was the reigning king of gaining access to songs that no one else had and including them on his mixtapes, instantly creating a buzz on the street. In 1996, on his Holiday Holdupmixtape, was a song titled “All About the Benjamins,” which featured Puffy rapping alongside Jadakis...
Styles P. turned in one of the more ferocious verses on No Way Outfor The Lox assisted cut “I Got the Power,” but the Yonkers hard-rock would’ve also appeared on the “All About the Benjamins (Remix)” had his opening verse not been replaced by Diddy. Originally a solo song by The Lox, the then named “Puff Daddy” liked it so much that he decided to u...
The Notorious B.I.G. made multiple appearances on No Way Out, but only three of his four verses on the album were recorded with that intention. The album’s opening salvo, “Victory,” includes a pair of his verses, which were recorded the day before he was fatally murdered and would be the last rhymes the rapper would ever lay down in the booth.
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- No Way Out has a title track that was left off the album. No Way Out opens with “No Way Out (Intro),” a dramatic 80-second interlude with helicopter sound effects.
- Jay-Z turned down the chance to write “I’ll Be Missing You” It’s no secret that Sean Combs, who famously declared “Don’t worry if I write rhymes, I write checks,” didn’t pen many of his lyrics on No Way Out, even his chart-topping emotional tribute to his slain friend the Notorious B.I.G.
- Puffy’s lavish videos were inspired by Guns N’ Roses. No Way Outspun off several videos, each more ambitious and star-studded than the last, culminating in the epic action-movie-themed clip for “Been Around the World” and the ominous, dramatic $2.7 million dollar short film for “Victory,” still one of the most expensive music videos ever made.
- Missy Elliott helped mastermind “It’s All About the Benjamins” “It’s All About the Benjamins” was Puff Daddy’s gritty mixtape hit that set the stage for his solo career, featuring two-thirds of the L.O.X., and remixed for No Way Outwith Lil Kim and the Notorious B.I.G.
Jul 22, 2022 · 22 July 2022. No Way Out, the chart-busting, Grammy-winning debut double-album by Sean Combs – aka Puff Daddy – was released by Combs’ own Bad Boy label on 22 July 1997, a few scant months after the violent death of his key signing and friend, The Notorious B.I.G., and the release of Biggie’s second album, the diamond-selling Life After ...
1996–1998: "Puff Daddy" and No Way Out Combs at the 2000 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame In 1996, under the name Puff Daddy, Combs released his first commercial vocal work as a rapper. [ 46 ]
Jul 1, 2021 · On this date in 1997, the Hip Hop mogul formerly known as Puff Daddy, put an album together with the entire Bad Boy Hip Hop roster and dubbed them “The Family” and released the label’s only...
Mar 9, 2017 · Puff Daddy & the Family. 1997. 7.8. By Sheldon Pearce. Genre: Rap. Label: Bad Boy. Reviewed: March 9, 2017. Puff Daddy’s luxurious 1997 debut plays as both a cautionary tale and an affront to...
