Tarantula (Mystikal album)
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| Studio album by Mystikal | ||||
| Released | December 18, 2001 (US) | |||
| Recorded | 2000–01 | |||
| Genre | Southern hip hop, dirty rap | |||
| Length | 54:27 | |||
| Label | Jive Records | |||
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Rockwilder Scott Storch Mystikal The Medicine Men The Neptunes |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 68/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | B- |
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| NME |   |
| RapReviews | 8/10 |
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Tarantula is the fifth studio album by New Orleans-based rapper Mystikal, released on December 18, 2001 by Jive Records. The production was done by Rockwilder, Scott Storch, The Medicine Men and The Neptunes, and features artists like Juvenile, Butch Cassidy and Method Man & Redman.
The album received a positive reception from critics who found it an improvement over his previous album Let's Get Ready. It spawned two singles: "Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against the Wall)" and the title track. Tarantula debuted at number 33 on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of 153,000 copies, peaking at number 25 in 2002 and reaching number 4 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart that same year. It was later certified gold by the RIAA for selling over 500,000 copies. In 2003, Tarantula received two nominations at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Rap Album and Best Male Rap Solo Performance for "Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against the Wall)".
Tarantula received a generally positive reception from music critics who saw it as an improvement over Let's Get Ready in terms of production and topics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score out of 68, based on 7 reviews.
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