Crown Royal (album)
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| Studio album by Run–D.M.C. | ||||
| Released | April 13, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | 2001 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop, rap rock | |||
| Length | 43:49 | |||
| Label | Arista | |||
| Producer | Jam Master Jay, LaMarquis "ReMarqable" Jefferson, Randy Allen, Kid Rock, Dante Ross, John Gamble, Stephan Jenkins, Jermaine Dupri | |||
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| Metacritic | 43/100 |
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Crown Royal is the seventh and final album from hip hop pioneers Run–D.M.C., released on April 13, 2001. It was released about 18 months before the murder of Jam-Master Jay. All songs but the title track featured guest artists, including Fred Durst, Stephan Jenkins and Sugar Ray, Everlast, Kid Rock, Nas, Prodigy and Method Man.
It is the first and only Run–D.M.C. album with a Parental Advisory label, though previous Run-D.M.C albums, such the 1986 Raising Hell, had included explicit lyrics.
Crown Royal was mildly successful despite poor critical reviews.
Rolling Stone (3/15/01, p. 78) said "Crown Royal uses the same musical strategy as their minor 1993 comeback, Down with the King: guest artists, guest artists and more guest artists... But as on Down With the King, Run-DMC prove their old-school mastery without adding anything new to it; the tracks sink or swim depending on what the guest artist felt like bringing to the studio that day.
Entertainment Weekly (4/6/01, p. 120) note that "on this hip-hop roast, new schoolers Nas and Fat Joe pay their respects with sparkling grooves... Run's rhymes are still limber." - Rating: B-
NME (4/5/01, p. 43) - 6 out of 10 - "Proves the emperors' new clothes can look just as solid as their old threads."
Crown Royal
It's Over
Queens Day
Take the Money and Run
Ahhh
Rock Show
The School of Old
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