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Track Listing
1. It's Time For War
2. Old School New School
3. Feel My Heart Beat - (featuring 50 Cent)
4. Get Over Here - (featuring Ticky Diamondz/Jiz/It's Ya Girl Nicolette/Lyrikal)
5. Baby - (featuring The-Dream)
6. You Better Watch Me
7. Cry
8. Baby [Rock Remix] - (remix, featuring Richie Sambora)
9. Rocking With The G.O.A.T.
10. This Is Ring Tone M... - (featuring Grandmaster Caz)
11. Like A Radio - (featuring Ryan Leslie)
12. I Fall In Love - (featuring Elan)
13. Ur Only A Customer
14. Mr. President - (featuring Wyclef Jean)
15. American Girl
16. Speedin On Da Highway/Exit 13 - (featuring Funkmaster Flex)
17. Come And Party With Me - (featuring Fat Joe/Sheek Louch)
18. We Rollin'
19. Dear Hip Hop
| Details | | Contributing artists: | 50 Cent, Elan, Fat Joe, Funkmaster Flex, Grandmaster Caz, It's Ya Girl Nicolette, Jiz, Lyrikal, Richie Sambora, Ryan Leslie, Sheek Louch, The-Dream, Ticky Diamondz, Wyclef Jean | | Producer: | Absolut, C. "Tricky" Stewart, Cue Beats, Dame Grease, Frado, Illfonics, Marley Marl, Marlon Williams, Jr., Raw Uncut, Ray Burghardt, Ryan Leslie, Scratch, Streetrunner, Suits, Terius "The-Dream" Nash, The Dream Team, The-Dream | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Brian Mavi, Starr Blackshere, Arnold Tucker, Tesa Williams, Sharise Jackson, Paula Hollaway, Nahemma Harper, Lyric Tucker, Lawrence Newton, Jennifer Burton, El-Ahmad Barack, Lil' Mo, Barbara Walker, Charlene Hollaway (vocals); Dave Clauss (guitar); Thomas Flanagan (sitar); Tamae Lee, Luigi Mazzochi, Ghislaine Fleischmann, Igor Szwec, Emma Kummrow, Olga Konopelsky, Gregory Teperman, Charles Parker (violin); Alexandra Leem, Peter Nocella, Davis Barnett (viola); Jennie Lorenzo (cello); Greg Riley (tenor saxophone); Matt Gallagher, Mike Jarosz, Jon Virtue (trumpet); Paul Arbogast (tenor trombone, bass trombone); Dan Paul (piano); Infamous (keyboards); Paul Gehman (bass instrument); Brian Farr (drums); Leonard Sideman (tabla); David Nelson (timpani); Scratch (scratches); Mari Koda (background vocals); Brent Behrenshausen, Zach Larimer, Mark Figueroa, Gabriel Staznik, Frank Hill.
Audio Mixers: Jaycen Joshua; Dave Pensado; Glen Marchese; Marley Marl; Brian Stanley.
Arranger: Larry Gold.
The 13 in LL Cool J's latest LP represents the number of albums that he's recorded for Def Jam, the label he helped build from the ground up dating back to 1984. Much like Ice Cube and other aging hip-hop stars who have crossed over to mainstream celebrity, LL has little to prove but still plenty of talent to burn. As he says on "Get Over Here," "It ain't where ya from, it's how hot you are," and the man they call Todd Smith liberally borrows production styles from hip-hop's ever-expanding geography, while throwing in the occasional history lesson. Opener "Old School New School" is rousing and boastful, feeling awfully similar to a Kanye West cut off GRADUATION. He then heads down south for "Over Here"'s stutter-step bounce (and the phenomenal, drumline-centric "American Girl"), and goes literally global via the seductive Indian inflections of "I Fall In Love." But the highlight is "Ringtone M.," a minimalist track backed by a verse from genre pioneer Grandmaster Caz. EXIT 13 demonstrates that LL's influence has become genre- and era-blind, and as an MC, his flow is still as crisp, confident, and commanding as ever.
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