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| Released | August 28, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | July 2000-May 2001 | |||
| Genre | Funk/R&B | |||
| Length | 59:41 | |||
| Label | Eagle Music Group | |||
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Gangland is the twenty-first studio album by the band Kool & the Gang, released in 2001 following a five-year gap between albums. The album was a compilation of rappers backed by Kool and the Gang remaking some of the band's songs.
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| USA Today |    [1] |
With a 2.5 out of 4 star rating, Steve Jones of USA Today wrote "Years before Kool rode vocalist James 'J.T.' Taylor's voice to pop success with songs such as Celebration, Cherish and Fresh, they were Hollywood-swinging with such street-oriented anthems as Jungle Boogie and Let the Music Take Your Mind. It's a freshened-up version of the latter funk-fueled jams that propel this new, hard-grooving set. The fusion of rap, jazz and R&B finds the band -- led by founding brothers Robert "Kool" Bell on bass and saxophonist Khalis Bayyan (Ronald Bell) -- joining an engaging pool of young talents."[1]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Bigg Thangs" | Bayyan | 4:09 |
| 2. | "Mo Bigg Thangs" | Bayyan | 3:55 |
| 3. | "Blow Up" | Smith | 3:32 |
| 4. | "Where da Boogie At?" | Kool & the Gang | 3:38 |
| 5. | "Turn It Out" | Bayyan, Bell | 3:33 |
| 6. | "Jungle in My House" | Bayyan, Brown, JAM Bell, Kool & the Gang | 4:35 |
| 7. | "Money Makes the World Go Round" | Bell, Griffin, Irving, Moore, Rhodes | 3:53 |
| 8. | "Ballin' in Chilltown" | Bell, Brown, Irving | 4:24 |
| 9. | "That's Right" | Bell, Griffin, Irving | 3:58 |
| 10. | "All My Time" | Bell, Brown, Hill, Irving, Moore, Young | 5:19 |
| 11. | "Early in the Morning" | Simmons, Taylor, Wilson | 3:20 |
| 12. | "Cherish" | Bell, Kool & the Gang, Taylor | 4:47 |
| 13. | "Hit Me on the Hip" | English, Furusawa, Goddard, Ladawn, Peterson, SX4 | 3:49 |
| 14. | "Goody Goody" | Andrews, Cardwell, Peoples, Smith, Williams | 3:23 |
| 15. | "Concrete Jungle" | G'Poetic, Bayyan, Kool & the Gang | 4:28 |
| 16. | "Funk Done Gone Hip Hop" | Rivers, Scott, Shider, Shider, Thomas | 4:14 |
| 17. | "Jazziacs at the Kool Jazz Café" | Bell, Kool & The Gang | 6:13 |
Personnel
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- Production
- Don Tittle - Engineer
- Kendal Stubbs - Mixing
- Duncan Stanbury - Mastering
- Khalis Bayyan - Mixing, Producer
- Bill Irving - Programming, Mixing, Producer
- Hakim Bell - Programming, Mixing, Producer
- George "Funky" Brown - Programming, Producer
- Rick Iantosca - Producer
- Kool & the Gang - Executive Producer
- Ronnie Wright - Photography
References
- 1 2 Jones, Steve (September 4, 2001). "Brutality hangs Slipknot; Ketchum gets rocking". p. D10. ProQuest 408904575. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
