A Long Hot Summer is the fifth solo album from Hip Hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 artist Masta Ace

Masta Ace

Duval Clear , known better by his stage name Masta Ace, is a rapper from Brownsville, Brooklyn. He appeared on the classic 1988 Juice Crew posse cut "The Symphony"...

. The release is a highly acclaimed concept album, a follow-up to his 2001 concept album Disposable Arts

Disposable Arts

Disposable Arts is the fourth album and the second solo album by American emcee Masta Ace, his first album since 1995's Sittin' On Chrome. The concept follows a young Brooklyn man's release from prison, his return home, and his life at "The Institute of Disposable Arts", a school in which Ace...

. The story follows Ace, an underground rapper through his "Long Hot Summer" in Brooklyn, accompanied by buddy Fats Belvedere. Ace ventures through the Brooklyn streets and goes out on tour with Fats as his unofficial manager.

Track listing

Cast

• Masta Ace: Himself
• Fats Belvedere: Himself
• "E": Frankie Aikens
• Hotel Maintenance Guy: Franklyn Grant, Jr.
• Promoter: Steve Dent
• Cell Mate: Michael Rapaport
  Michael Rapaport
  Michael David Rapaport is an American, actor, director and a comedian. He has acted in more than forty films since the early 1990s...
  
  

Samples

The Count

• "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
  Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
  "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" is a jazz standard composed by Charles Mingus originally recorded by his sextet in 1959 as listed below, and released on his album Mingus Ah Um. Mingus wrote it as an elegy for saxophonist Lester Young, who had died two months prior to the recording session...
  
  " by Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
  
  

Big City

• "Think of Your Thoughts as Children" by Philippé Wynne
  Philippe Wynne
  Philippé Wynne , born Phillip Walker, was an American R&B singer. Best known for his role as the lead singer of The Spinners , Wynne scored notable hits such as "How Could I Let You Get Away", "The Rubberband Man",and "One of a Kind ",...
  
  

Good Ol' Love

• "Give Me Some of That Good Old Love" by Willie Hutch
  Willie Hutch
  Willie McKinley Hutchison, known professionally as Willie Hutch was an American singer, songwriter as well as a record producer and recording artist for the Motown record label during the 1970s and 1980s....
  
  
• "Hospital Prelude of Love Theme" by Willie Hutch
  Willie Hutch
  Willie McKinley Hutchison, known professionally as Willie Hutch was an American singer, songwriter as well as a record producer and recording artist for the Motown record label during the 1970s and 1980s....
  
  
• Excerpts from the film The Original Kings Of Comedy
  The Original Kings of Comedy
  The Original Kings of Comedy is a 2000 stand-up comedy film, directed by Spike Lee, and featuring the comedy routines of Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac. Filmed in front of an audience at the Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina, the comedians give the...
  
  

Da Grind

• "How Long Will It Last" by Jerry Butler
  Jerry Butler (singer)
  Jerry Butler is an American soul singer and songwriter. He is also noted as being the original lead singer of the R&B vocal group, The Impressions, as well as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.Butler is also an American politician...
  
   & Brenda Lee Eager
  Brenda Lee Eager
  Brenda Lee Eager is an American soul singer, songwriter and musical theatre performer who has written and performed several hits, including "Ain't Understanding Mellow", "Close to You", and "Somebody's Somebody".-Life and career:...
  
  
• "Hate Me Now
  Hate Me Now
  "Hate Me Now" is a 1999 hip hop single by rapper Nas featuring Puff Daddy. The backbeat is inspired by, and contains some samples from, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.-Controversy:...
  
  " by Nas
  Nas
  Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, who performs under the name Nas , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapper and actor. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in hip hop and one of the most skilled and influential rappers of all-time...
  
  

H.O.O.D.

• "Stares and Whispers" by Renee Geyer
  Renée Geyer
  Renée Rebecca Geyer is an Australian singer who has long been regarded as one of the finest exponents of jazz, soul and R&B idioms. She had commercial success as a solo artist in Australia, with "It's a Man's Man's World", "Heading in the Right Direction" and "Stares and Whispers" in the 1970s and...
  
  

Beautiful

• "Wishing on a Star" by Rose Royce
  Rose Royce
  Rose Royce is an American soul and R&B band. The group is best known for several hit singles including "Car Wash," "I Wanna Get Next to You," "Wishing on a Star", "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" and "I'm Going Down".-Career:...
  
  

F.A.Y

• "Better Off Dead" by Ice Cube
  Ice Cube
  O'Shea Jackson , better known by his stage name Ice Cube, is an American rapper and actor. He began his career as a member of the hip-hop group C.I.A. and later joined the rap group N.W.A. After leaving N.W.A in December 1989, he built a successful solo career in music, and also as a writer,...
  
  

Soda & Soap

• "Black Gold" by Phillip Upchurch

Bklyn Masala

• "Sailing" by Christopher Cross
  Christopher Cross
  Christopher Cross is an American singer-songwriter from San Antonio, Texas. His debut album earned him five Grammys. He is perhaps best known for his Top Ten hit songs, "Sailing", "Ride Like the Wind", and "Arthur's Theme ", the last of which he performed for the film Arthur starring Dudley Moore...
  
  
• "You Won't See Me Tonight" by Nas
  Nas
  Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, who performs under the name Nas , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapper and actor. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in hip hop and one of the most skilled and influential rappers of all-time...
  
  

Travelocity

• "Tu Etais Trop Jolie" by Charles Aznavour
  Charles Aznavour
  Charles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...
  
  

The Stoop

• "Don't Give Me No Bammer Weed" by RBL Posse
  RBL Posse
  RBL Posse was a 1990s gangsta rap group from Hunters Point in San Francisco, California.-History:Formed in 1991 by Black C and Mr. Cee . Their first release, the self-produced "Don't Give Me No Bammer" came out on In-a-Minute Records and made the Billboard magazine Hot Rap Singles chart, peaking...
  
  

Album singles

Album information
Good Ol' Love Released: July 1, 2004 B-side: "The Ways"
Beautiful (Koolade single featuring Masta Ace and El Da Sensei) Released: July 29, 2004 B-side: "Follow" (Koolade featuring El Da Sensei)
Da Grind Released: December 27, 2004 B-side: "Do It Man"

Album chart positions

Year	Album	Chart positions
		Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums	Top Independent Albums
2004	A Long Hot Summer	-	82	44