Credits

• Chris Athens – mastering
• Ashaunna Ayars – marketing
• David Brown – engineer
• Shari Bryant – marketing
• Miguel Bustamante – mixing assistant
• Don Cannon – producer, engineer
• Jermaine Dupri – producer, mixing
• Aaron Heick – saxophon
• John Horesco IV – engineer
• Josh Houghkirk – mixing assistant
• Ken Ifill – executive producer
• Terese Joseph – A&R
• Just Blaze – producer, mixing
• Jeff Kievit – trumpet
• Tai Linzie – photography, art coordinator
• Jonathan Mannion – photography

• Rob Mathes – arranger
• Darryl "Big Baby" McClary – keyboards
• Steve Morales & Sarom – producer
• Sandra Park – violin
• Wen Qian – violin
• TaVon Sampson – art direction
• Alan J. Stepansky – cello
• Phil Tan – mixing
• Antwan "Amadeus" Thompson – drums, producer
• Versatile - producer
• Andrew Roettger "Versatile" - producer
• Timbaland – producer
• Dan Tobiason – mixing assistant
• Steve Tolle – mixing assistant
• Ryan West – engineer, mixing
• Jordan Young "DJ Swivel" – engineer, mixing
• Rebecca Young – viola

Samples

• "Change Up" contains similar piano melodies from "Cross That Line" by Rick Ross
  Rick Ross (rapper)
  William Leonard Roberts II , better known by his stage name Rick Ross, is an American rapper. He derived his stage name from the drug trafficker "Freeway" Ricky Ross, to whom he has no connection...
  
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• "Make Me Better" contains samples from Sherine's "Al Sa'ban Aleh".
• "Brooklyn" contains sample from "Where Brooklyn At (Live Freestyle)" by Funkmaster Flex
  Funkmaster Flex
  Aston George Taylor, Jr. better known as Funkmaster Flex is an American hip hop DJ, rapper, musician and producer on New York City's Hot 97 radio station and host of the hit MTV show Funk Flex Full Throttle....
  
   & Big Kap featuring DJ Mister Cee
  Mister Cee
  Calvin LeBrun better known as Mister Cee or DJ Mister Cee, is an American hip hop DJ, radio personality on New York's Hot 97 FM, and a respected record producer. LeBrun is best known as the DJ for hip hop artist Big Daddy Kane during the late 1980s and early 1990s...
  
  , Notorious B.I.G.
  The Notorious B.I.G.
  Christopher George Latore Wallace , best known as The Notorious B.I.G., was an American rapper. He was also known as Biggie Smalls , Big Poppa, and The Black Frank White .Wallace was raised in the Brooklyn borough...
  
   & Tupac
  Tupac Shakur
  Tupac Amaru Shakur , known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2007, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world...
  
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• "This is Family" contains sample from "I Can't Believe You're Gone" by The Barrino Brothers
  The Barrino Brothers
  The Barrino Brothers was a soul music group formed in North Carolina, U.S. in 1973. The group released only one album on the Invictus label in 1973, entitled Livin' High Off the Goodness of Your Love. Despite production by the legendary Motown team Holland-Dozier-Holland, The Barrino Brothers never...
  
  
• "Return of the Hustle" contains a sample from "Lord Of The Golden Baboon" by Mandrill
  Mandrill
  The mandrill is a primate of the Old World monkey family, closely related to the baboons and even more closely to the drill. Both the mandrill and the drill were once classified as baboons in genus Papio, but recent research has determined they should be separated into their own genus, Mandrillus...
  
  
• "Return of the Hustle" contains an interpolation of "C.R.E.A.M." (Cash Rules Everything Around Me) by the Wu-Tang Clan
  Wu-Tang Clan
  The Wu-Tang Clan is a hip-hop group from Staten Island that consists of RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard. They are frequently joined by fellow childhood friend Cappadonna, a quasi member of the group...
  
  

Charts

Release history