QB Finest

Nas & Ill Will Records Presents QB's Finest Compilation album by Nas and various other artists Released November 21, 2000 Recorded 1998-1999 Genre Hip hop Length 65:14 Label Ill Will Records, Columbia Records Producer Nas (exec.), Marley Marl, L.E.S., The Infinite Arkatechz, Havoc, Ez Elpee, Scott Storch, The Alchemist, Plain Truth, Al West Nas & Ill Will Records Presents QB's Finest, commonly known as simply QB's Finest, is a 2000 compilation album and the second release from rapper Nas' new Ill Will Records imprint, distributed by Columbia Records. It featured Nas and a number of other rappers from the Queensbridge housing projects, including Mobb Deep, Nature, Nashawn, Littles, Bravehearts and Cormega, who had briefly reconciled a longtime feud with Nas. The album also featured guest appearances from Queensbridge's hip hop legends Roxanne Shanté, MC Shan and Marley Marl, both of whom appeared on the lead single "Da Bridge 2001" (based on MC Shan's and Marley Marl's 1986 classic "The Bridge"). "Da Bridge 2001" also featured a response from Nas to Memphis Bleek, in which Nas calls out most of the Roc-A-Fella Records roster, including Memphis Bleek, Damon Dash, Beanie Sigel and Jay-Z. The album's biggest hit single was "Oochie Wally", a club anthem recorded by the Bravehearts. Track listing edit: # Title Producer(s) Performer(s) Length 1 "Intro" L.E.S. Bravehearts 2:03 2 "Da Bridge 2001" Marley Marl, L.E.S. Capone, Cormega, Marley Marl, MC Shan, Millennium Thug, Mobb Deep, Nas, Nature, Tragedy Khadafi 4:32 3 "We Live This" Havoc Big Noyd, Havoc, Roxanne Shanté 4:08 4 "Real Niggas" L.E.S. Nas, Ruc 4:39 5 "Find Ya Wealth" L.E.S. Nas 3:40 6 "Straight Outta Q.B." L.E.S. Cormega, Jungle, Poet 3:55 7 "Oochie Wally (Remix)" Ez Elpee Nas, Bravehearts 4:00 8 "Our Way" Scott Storch Capone-N-Noreaga, Imam Thug 4:47 9 "Fire" L.E.S. Nature 3:39 10 "Power Rap" (Freestyle Interlude) Havoc Prodigy 2:30 11 "Street Glory" L.E.S. Nas, Pop 3:30 12 "We Break Bread" L.E.S. Chaos, Craig G, Littles, Lord Black 4:43 13 "Money" The Alchemist Mr. Challish 3:15 14 "Self Conscience" The Infinite Arkatechz Nas, Prodigy 3:15 15 "Die 4" Plain Truth Infamous Mobb 4:01 16 "Kids in Da P.J.'s" The Infinite Arkatechz Millennium Thug, Nas, Bravehearts 4:35 17 "Teenage Thug" (Bonus Track) Al West Millennium Thug, Nas 4:02 Though numbered correctly in the liner notes, the original compact disc pressing erroneously combined tracks one and two during mastering, throwing off the count for the rest of the tracks by one number (i.e., "We Live This" is track two, "Real Niggas" is track three, and so on). Later, corrected masters feature the "Oochie Wally" remix (which features Nas in addition to the Bravehearts) in place of the original. Samples edit: "Da Bridge 2001" contains a sample from "The Bridge" by MC Shan, "Find Ya Wealth" contains a sample from "Solstice" by Brian Bennett, "Straight Outta Q.B." contains a sample from "Straight Outta Compton" by N.W.A. Cormega's verse contains many recycled lyrics from Ice Cube's verse on the original song., "Oochie Wally" contains a sample from "Bambooji" by Gong, "Money" contains a sample from the theme song of Phantasm by Fred Myrow, "Self Conscience" contains a sample from The Exorcist theme, Album chart positions edit: Year Album Chart positions Billboard 200 Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums 2001 Nas & Ill Will Records Presents QB's Finest #53 #10 Singles chart positions edit: Year Song Chart positions Billboard Hot 100 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks Hot Rap Singles Rhythmic Top 40 Top 40 Tracks 2001 Da Bridge 2001 - - #17 - - 2001 Oochie Wally #26 #11 #2 #6 #36

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