Due to little promotion, the album was not a commercial success, only reaching number 69 on the BillboardTop R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. It did, however, feature his biggest hit to date "Where I Wanna Be", which peaked at 95 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 12 on the BillboardHot Rap Songs. The album spawned three additional singles, "Money Owners", "John Doe" and "Wake Up" all of which became minor hits on the R&B charts.
Informal Introduction at Discogs (list of releases)
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Informal Introduction is the debut studio album by American rapper Shade Sheist It was released on September 10 2002 through MCA Records Recording sessions took place at Larrabee Studios at Soundcastle at Skip Saylor Recording and at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles Production was handled by Damizza Eddie Berkeley KayGee DJ Quik Howie Hersh and Timbaland It features guest appearances from Nate Dogg AMG DJ Clue Fabolous Hi C Knoc turn al Kurupt Vita and Warren G among others Informal IntroductionStudio album by Shade SheistReleasedSeptember 10 2002 2002 09 10 Recorded2000 02StudioLarrabee Sound StudiosSoundcastleSkip Saylor RecordingWestlake Recording Studios Los Angeles CA GenreWest Coast hip hopgangsta rapLength1 01 39LabelMCAProducerDamizza also exec DJ QuikEddie BerkeleyHowie HershKayGeeTimbalandShade Sheist chronologyInformal Introduction 2002 Before The Waitin Before The Hatin 2005 Singles from Informal Introduction Where I Wanna Be Released December 12 2000 Money Owners Released May 14 2002 John Doe Released 2002 Wake Up Released 2002Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusic 1 HipHopDX2 5 5 2 Due to little promotion the album was not a commercial success only reaching number 69 on the Billboard Top R amp B Hip Hop Albums It did however feature his biggest hit to date Where I Wanna Be which peaked at 95 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 12 on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs The album spawned three additional singles Money Owners John Doe and Wake Up all of which became minor hits on the R amp B charts Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Charts 3 1 Singles 4 References 5 External linksTrack listing EditNo TitleWriter s Producer s Length1 Holla Boyz Intro featuring DJ Echo and DJ Vice 1 082 Somebody Steals the Show T ThompsonD YoungH HershDamizza4 253 Act Like You Know Me featuring Fabolous and Knoc turn al T ThompsonJ JacksonR HarborH HershHowie HershDamizza co 5 044 John Doe featuring DJ Quik AMG Hi C and Swift D BlakeC WilkersonJ LewisK MartinDJ Quik3 255 X2 featuring DJ Clue T ThompsonD YoungH HershW WithersDamizza4 276 Walk a Mile featuring Barbara Wilson Nate Dogg N U N E and Vita T ThompsonN HaleC McCauleyL RaynorD YoungH HershDamizza3 457 Stop And Think About It featuring Big Caz T ThompsonD YoungH HershB ElandDamizzaShade Sheist co 4 508 Money Owners featuring Timbaland T ThompsonT MosleyTimbaland4 269 Wake Up featuring Nate Dogg and Warren G T ThompsonN HaleW Griffin IIIE BerkeleyK GistJ MtumeR JamesEddie BerkeleyKay Gee4 3310 BMF T ThompsonD YoungH HershDamizza4 1711 Thug Luv featuring Barbara Wilson T ThompsonD YoungH HershDamizza3 4212 Cali Diseaz Musik featuring Nate Dogg T ThompsonN HaleD YoungH HershDamizza4 1213 Here I Come featuring Damizza T ThompsonD YoungH HershDamizza3 2414 Where I Wanna Be featuring Kurupt and Nate Dogg T ThompsonR BrownN HaleE BerkeleyK GistR KimballD PaichEddie BerkeleyKay GeeDamizza co 4 2015 The Urban Gospel featuring King Arthur and N U N E T ThompsonD YoungH HershDamizzaShade Sheist co 4 1816 Holla Boys Outro featuring DJ Echo DJ Vice and Damizza 1 24Total length 1 01 39Personnel EditTramayne Thompson main artist co producer tracks 7 15 co executive producer mixing track 10 Guest artists vocalists Henry DJ Echo Olortegui featured artist tracks 1 16 Eric DJ Vice Aguirre featured artist tracks 1 16 Damion Young featured artist tracks 13 16 backing vocals track 2 Latonya Holmes backing vocals track 2 John Jackson featured artist track 3 Royal Harbor featured artist track 3 David Blake featured artist track 4 Crawford Wilkerson featured artist track 4 Jason Lewis featured artist track 4 Kenyan Swift Martin featured artist track 4 Ernesto DJ Clue Shaw featured artist track 5 Barbara Wilson featured artist tracks 6 11 backing vocals tracks 6 7 11 13 Nathaniel Dwayne Hale featured artist tracks 6 9 12 14 Chris Nune McCauley featured artist tracks 6 15 LaVita Raynor featured artist track 6 Caz featured artist track 7 Timothy Mosley featured artist track 8 Warren Griffin III featured artist track 9 Ricardo Kurupt Brown featured artist track 14 King Arthur featured artist track 15 Instrumentalists Damion Damizza Young drums tracks 2 5 6 10 13 15 programming tracks 2 5 6 10 11 15 percussion tracks 2 6 13 15 keyboards track 5 Howard B Hersh bass amp keyboards tracks 2 5 6 10 13 DeVante Swing keyboards track 4 Emmanuel DJ EMan Coquia scratches track 5 Anthony Mazza guitar tracks 7 10 Florian Ammon Pro Tools tracks 6 7 12 13 D B Murda programming track 12 B W N programming track 12 Technicals Damizza producer tracks 2 5 7 10 13 15 co producer tracks 3 14 executive producer recording tracks 6 7 11 13 Howie Hersh producer track 3 David DJ Quik Blake producer amp mixing track 4 Timothy Timbaland Mosley producer amp mixing track 8 Edward Berkeley producer tracks 9 14 Kier Gist producer tracks 9 14 Michael Schlesinger mixing tracks 2 5 7 10 15 recording tracks 2 5 6 10 15 Jimmy Douglass mixing track 8 Steve Penny engineering track 8 Jeremy recording tracks 6 8 Ray recording track 7 Jason Schweitzer recording track 13 Evren Goknar mastering Brian additional editing track 5 Aaron additional engineering track 8 Additional Jesse Alvarez art direction design amp illustration JP Robinson art direction design amp illustration Manuel J Donayre art direction design amp illustration David Irvin photography Anthony Mandler photography Naim Ali A amp R Alicia N Graham A amp R Sujit Kundu management co executive producerCharts EditChart 2002 Peak positionUS Top R amp B Hip Hop Albums Billboard 3 69US Heatseekers Albums Billboard 4 20Singles Edit List of singles with selected chart positions Title Year Peak chart positionsUS 5 USR amp B 6 USAirplay 7 UK 8 Where I Wanna Be featuring Nate Dogg amp Kurupt 2000 37 60 50 14 Wake Up featuring Warren G amp Nate Dogg 2002 36 53 52 John Doe featuring DJ Quik Hi C AMG amp Swift 66 64 Money Owners featuring Timbaland 81 denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country References Edit Henderson Alex Informal Introduction Shade Sheist Songs Reviews Credits AllMusic Retrieved March 7 2020 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Williams DeMarco September 20 2002 Shade Sheist Informal Introduction HipHopDX Retrieved March 7 2020 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Shade Sheist Chart History Top R amp B Hip Hop Albums Billboard Retrieved March 7 2020 Shade Sheist Chart History Heatseekers Albums Billboard Retrieved March 7 2020 https www billboard com artist shade sheist chart history rhythmic top 40 https www billboard com artist shade sheist chart history r 26b hip hop songs https www billboard com artist shade sheist chart history r 26b hip hop airplay http www officialcharts com artist shade 20sheist 20featuring 20nate 20dogg 20 amp 20kurupt bare URL External links EditInformal Introduction at Discogs list of releases Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w 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