Gridlock'd (soundtrack)

Gridlock'd
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released January 28, 1997
Recorded 1996
Genre West Coast Hip Hop, Gangsta Rap, R&B, G-funk
Length 01:09:35
Label Interscope
Death Row
Producer Suge Knight (exec.)
Daz Dillinger, Johnny "J", Sam Sneed
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
USA Today[2]

Gridlock'd is the official movie soundtrack to Vondie Curtis-Hall film Gridlock'd and was released on 28 January 1997 by Interscope Records

The track "Off The Hook" was originally recorded for the LBC Crew debut album Haven't You Heard? (We Givin' Something Bacc To The Street), which was later shelved and the songs were cycled through other Death Row releases. The album had two chart running singles. "Lady Heroin" was originally going to be on Sam Sneed's unreleased album Street Scholars.

"It's Over Now" was 46th on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, which was Danny Boy's second chart single. "Wanted Dead or Alive" was 16th in the UK and was accompanied by a music video with Snoop alone as it was filmed after the death of 2Pac, so he is only present in archive footages from the motion picture. The album itself went to top the R&B album chart also on the first place.

Commercial Success

It sold 150,500 copies in its first week debuting at #1 at the Billboard 200, slipping onto the second place the next week and still holding "US Albums: Biggest drops from the Top 3" - Top 20 14th place with its 2 to 14 dropback at the third week. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA a couple months later, selling over 500,000 copies.[3]

Track listing

  1. "Wanted Dead or Alive" - 2Pac/Snoop Doggy Dogg - 4:39
  2. "Sho Shot" - The Lady of Rage - 4:26
  3. "It's Over Now" - Danny Boy - 4:05
  4. "Don't Try to Play Me Homey" - Dat Nigga Daz - 4:38
  5. "Never Had a Friend Like Me" - 2Pac - 4:26
  6. "Why" - Nate Dogg - 5:13
  7. "Out the Moon" (Boom, Boom, Boom) - Snoop Doggy Dogg/Soopafly/Techniec/Bad Azz/Tray Dee/2Pac - 5:09
  8. "I Can't Get Enough" - Danny Boy - 5:10
  9. "Tonight It's On" - B.G.O.T.I. - 3:14
  10. "Off the Hook" - Snoop Doggy Dogg/Charlie Wilson/Val Young/James DeBarge - 5:37
  11. "Lady Heroin" - J-Flexx - 4:12
  12. "I Will Rize" - Storm/Val Young - 5:16
  13. "Body and Soul" - O.F.T.B. feat. Jewell - 4:54
  14. "Life Is a Traffic Jam" - 2Pac/Eight Mile Road - 4:24
  15. "Deliberation" - Anonymous - Cody Chesnutt - 4:12

Chart positions

Year Album Chart positions
Billboard 200
1997 "Gridlock'd (soundtrack)" 1

See also

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ USA Today review
  3. ↑ "Recording Industry Association of America". RIAA. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
Achievements
Preceded by
Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt		 Billboard 200 number-one album
February 15–21, 1997 		Succeeded by
Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt
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