The Neptunes Present... Clones

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The Neptunes Present... Clones
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released	August 19, 2003
Genre	Hip hop
Length	65:04
Label	Star Trak
Producer	The Neptunes
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The Neptunes Present... Clones is an album of songs from various artists, produced by the production duo of Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams, known as The Neptunes. It was released on August 19, 2003, and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. The album featured four singles; "Frontin'" by Pharrell, "Light Your Ass On Fire" by Busta Rhymes, "Hot Damn" by Clipse and "It Blows My Mind" by Snoop Dogg.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Trivia 3 Chart positions 4 Credits

[edit] Track listing

1. "Intro" by The Neptunes – 0:31
2. "Light Your Ass On Fire" by Busta Rhymes featuring Pharrell – 3:44
3. "Blaze of Glory" by Clipse featuring Pharrell & Ab-Liva – 3:56
4. "It Wasn't Us" by Ludacris featuring I-20 – 3:39
5. "Frontin'" by Pharrell featuring Jay-Z – 3:56
6. "Good Girl" by Vanessa Marquez – 4:15
7. "If" by Nelly – 3:45
8. "Hot" by Rosco P. Coldchain featuring Pusha T & Boo-Bonic – 3:41
9. "It Blows My Mind" by Snoop Dogg – 5:04
10. "Half-Steering..." by Spymob – 3:39
11. "Fuck N' Spend" by The High Speed Scene – 1:31
12. "Loser" by N*E*R*D featuring Clipse – 3:18
13. "Rock N' Roll" by FAM-LAY featuring Kelis– 4:24
14. "The Don of Dons (Put De Ting Pon Dem)" by Super Cat featuring Jadakiss – 4:15
15. "Hot Damn" by Clipse featuring Ab-Liva, Pharrell & Rosco P. Coldchain – 4:08
16. "Put 'Em Up" by N.O.R.E. featuring Pharrell – 3:36
17. "Pop Shit" by Dirt McGirt featuring Pharrell – 3:39
18. "Popular Thug" by Kelis featuring Nas – 3:57

[edit] Trivia

• The song "The Don of Dons (Put De Ting Pon Dem)" by Super Cat was originally supposed to feature rapper Foxy Brown but Def Jam didn't clear her to be on the song. There is an unreleased Foxy Brown song called "The Original" that was leaked in 2003 that has the same Neptunes beat. These may have been the verses that were originally supposed to be for this song.

• Other songs that did not make the cut on this album were "Midnight Lady" by Super Cat and "Sweet Lies" by Usher. Only a small part of "Midnight Lady" has ever been leaked.

• For the song It Blow My Mind Chad Hugo explains in an interview about the different instruments throughout the song. He claims a production partner Pharrell Williams used the Korg Triton for the horns, Korg for the drums, and a Minimoog Voyager for the melody at the outro of the song.

[edit] Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
2003	Billboard 200	1

[edit] Credits

• Executive Producers- Pharrell Williams, and Chad Hugo for Star Trak Entertainment
• All tracks produced by The Neptunes
• Pharrell Williams- keyboards, synthesizers, Drum Progamming, mixing
• Chad Hugo- keyboards, sequencer, mixing

Preceded by Greatest Hits Volume II and Some Other Stuff by Alan Jackson

Billboard 200 number-one album September 6 - September 12, 2003

Succeeded by Love & Life by Mary J. Blige